Hi, The basis of the story is true but you may want to find alternate sources ... Fox isn't exactly a bastion of journalistic integrity.
You need to strip the hyperbole and then run whats left through a bullshit filter. I don't have time to deconstruct the claims made in the Fox article - some are completely fabricated and many of the remainder are simply wrong. These may be more informative: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/09/the_stuxnet_wor.html http://www.langner.com/en/2010/11/14/stuxnet-attacker-profiling/ Symantec has some interesting contributions but they don't explain how they reached their conclusions as well as Schneier & Langner. http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/w32stuxnet-dossier What is 'known' about the worm author(s)? Almost nothing. Analysis of RE'd code indicates a small team wrote it because there are substantial differences in the style, sophistication and expertise requirements of different elements such as the payloads and infection routines. The source has, and continues to be, analyzed. This had led some to believe that the infection routines were written by less skilled people than the payload package which has been described as very sophisticated. Cheers, J.J. On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 22:38 -0700, Royce Souther wrote: > Does anyone know if this is real or a hoax? > http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/11/26/secret-agent-crippled-irans-nuclear-ambitions/ > > Everyone knows Microsoft provides the CIA with backdoors in to the > Windows OS so they can do just this exact thing but if this did happen > I don't think Iran would let the outside world find out about it. > > Oh and by the way now that I have sent you this email your address has > also been added to the CIA watch list so you better make sure your > data is encrypted. > > Happy hacking. > > -- > Easy, fast GUI development. > http://PerlQt.wikidot.com > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
