[Solar-general] world’s first digital weapon

[Gerardo Diaz]

2014-11-04 21:32 GMT-03:00 Matías Croce <mati en nelumboweb.com.ar>:
> On 04/11/14 20:38, Gerardo Diaz wrote:
>> traducido sería "bolú paren el mundo me quiero bajar"
>>
>> http://www.wired.com/2014/11/countdown-to-zero-day-stuxnet/
>
> Because the computers are air-gapped from the internet, however, they
> cannot be reached directly by the remote attackers. So the attackers
> have designed their weapon to spread via infected USB flash drives.
>
> ...
>
> To ensure greater success at getting the code where it needed to go,
> this version of Stuxnet had two more ways to spread than the previous
> one. Stuxnet 0.5 could spread only by infecting Step 7 project files—the
> files used to program Siemens PLCs. This version, however, could spread
> via USB flash drives using the Windows Autorun feature or through a
> victim’s local network using the print-spooler zero-day exploit that
> Kaspersky Lab, the antivirus firm based in Russia, and Symantec later
> found in the code.
>
> ...
>
>
> Based on the log files in Stuxnet, a company called Foolad Technic was
> the first victim ...
>
> ...
>
> A USB flash drive, of course, was Stuxnet’s primary method of spreading.
> Although Behrooz and his colleagues scanned for viruses, they found no
> malware on their machines.
>
>
>
>
> Traducido sería:
> - Che, me pasas el jueguito ese que me mostraste?
> - Si, acá lo tengo en el pendrive!
> - Pero no tendrá bicho eso??
> - Neeeh!! ya le pasé el AVG Free!! :)
>

:)

motivo ## (?) para usar software libre, proteger la centrifugadora de
uranio del malware del windoze?


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