Comments on: Stuxnet: Computer worm opens new era of warfare
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- remember that Matthew Broderick movie from the 80s, Wargames...yes, it's a brave new world. :)
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- This stuff is straight out of the movie "Die Hard: Live Free or Die Hard". No doubt an attack like this will be used to instill fear that will enable congress to swiftly pass laws that will censor and regulate the internet.
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- What's next? Destructive AI software like the fictional Skynet in the "Terminator" movies? Scary stuff...
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- This is scary to me. I think we should take the billions we borrow to give away in aid and spend it on computer security.
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- I did not like Steve Kroft story on stuxnet. For one thing, it is not good to blast our cyber attacks around, or any intelligence initiative for that matter. the tone of the piece was that somehow we have woken up other nations to start thinking about cyber attacks, where before they were just innocently bopping along unawares. Ridiculous!! China for one is just as aggressive in this regard and I'm sure all countries with the capability are working as hard as they can in that direction. What I took away from this story is that Congress is wimping out by still having no requirement to tighten cyber security arount critical infrastructure, I guess they will wake up after we take a major catastrophy. Typical. At a mimimum, we all need to move to IPv6 to get a security infrastructure in place to build on. DO IT!!!
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- Note, the writers of this code had to have intimate knowledge of every facet of the operation, what equipment, what controllers, etc. How many know the workings of our power grid. If it goes off the air briefly (unless it is really really cold) no major harm done. This happens in different localized areas annually due to storms. I suppose it would be possible to turn off the cooling water in a nuclear generating station, but most of ours are so old that I doubt if they are computer controlled, probably temperature operated valves.
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- Adds another dimension to flying on a plane. Just imagine the terrorist sending a mail while a plane is in flight which can disrupt the computers in a commercial flight. This is far from a improbable scenerio, look at the drones and heliocopters that have mysteriously crashed over the last several years not to mention the military jet crashes. I'd say these types of attacks are in full swing right now.
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- So everybody should have IP filter service which prompts which IP should be allowed or blocked and shows the stack about which executable used that IP. When desperate, with just a mouse click you can stop all traffics as well. Then with that IP info it is your payback time.
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- What I found most interesting about the Stuxnet code was the several "Zero Day" Windows exploits it employed. It just goes to show if you still use the Windows OS, keep it patched and updated. Me, well I use kubuntu linux :)
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- Just use nux -- problem solved. Stuxnet was somewhat sloppy and rushed code; possibly too infectious for its own good, which led to an early discovery of the worm. I think Win32-Duqu is an improvement, even if not the perfect Trojan -- it's tight efficient code with multiple backups and an redundant intelligence.
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