Bride of Stuxnet. Webcraft as spycraft.




https://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/bride-stuxnet_646424.html?nopager=1


. . . . The experts from Turtle Bay quickly realized they were out of their depth with Wiper/Viper and contracted a Russian computer security firm, Kaspersky Lab, to help. As the techs at Kaspersky investigated, they began to find bits and pieces of a much bigger program. What they eventually uncovered forced them to put aside Wiper/Viper and send out an all-hands call to the tech community: a cyber-weapon that made Stuxnet look primitive. They called it Flame.









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It couldn't happen to a nicer crowd.... lets hope they can't retaliate?

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It is spectacularly scary.












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Scary that that sort of thing can be done at all.... but directed at the correct target at least.... for now.

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Do not go gentle into that good night.
___________ Rage, rage against the dying of the light

. . . for now . . . is right.









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