Thursday, September 30, 2010

Stuxnet - Israelis eye cyberwar on Iran on July 2009? (English)

Note: this article was published at Tue Jul 7, 2009 8:50am EDT

UPDATE:
See also
Крактий перевод этой статьи
Stuxnet - Израиль начал кибер-войну с Ираном в июле 2009 г.? (Russian)
Stuxnet - technical details (English)
Stuxnet - технические детали (Russian)
END OF UPDATE


...Asked to speculate about how Israel might target Iran, Borg said malware -- a commonly used abbreviation for "malicious software" -- could be inserted to corrupt, commandeer or crash the controls of sensitive sites like uranium enrichment plants.

...Such attacks could be immediate, he said. Or they might be latent, with the malware loitering unseen and awaiting an external trigger, or pre-set to strike automatically when the infected facility reaches a more critical level of activity.

As Iran's nuclear assets would probably be isolated from outside computers, hackers would be unable to access them directly, Borg said. Israeli agents would have to conceal the malware in software used by the Iranians or discreetly plant it on portable hardware brought in, unknowingly, by technicians.

"A contaminated USB stick would be enough," Borg said.
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3742960,00.html
copied from
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5663EC20090707?pageNumber=2

UPDATE 30-11-2011:
См. также
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Израиль остановил ядерную программу Ирана
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Stuxnet - highlights of the Symantec document (English)
Stuxnet - версия "Коммерсанта" (Russian)
Stuxnet - more technical details (English)
Stuxnet podcast (Russian)
Stuxnet - Israelis eye cyberwar on Iran on July 2009? (English)
Stuxnet - technical details (English)
Stuxnet - технические детали (Russian)
Иран подтверждает: он был атакован сложнейшим компьютерным вирусом

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