[lug] Stuxnet Worm

Zan Lynx zlynx at acm.org
Thu Sep 23 17:50:13 MDT 2010


On 9/23/10 5:38 PM, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Chris McDermott<csmcdermott at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Have you all heard or read about the Stuxnet worm?  It's a really bizarre
>> story, and a fascinating piece of malware.  I wrote a blog post that has
>> most of the relevant details: http://www.barkingseal.com/2010/09/stuxnet/,
>> and Ralph Langner in Germany has a lot of good details on his website:
>> http://www.langner.com/en/index.htm.
>
> I'm still waiting for the shoe to drop.  I haven't heard of any
> facility actually being damaged--in Iran or elsewhere.  I supposed
> Iran might not want to talk about it, if it happens.  But I find it
> interesting that such a sophisticated attach seems to not have had any
> real effect.

This is a much better article in my opinion:
	http://frank.geekheim.de/?p=1189

That article includes the probable target: the Iranian uranium 
enrichment centrifuges; and the date: June/July 2009.

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Zan Lynx
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