Stuxnet (A computer worm), the first to include a programmable logic controller (PLC) rootkit, is a Windows-specific computer worm first discovered in July 2010 by VirusBlokAda. Stuxnet takes in the ability to reprogram the PLCs and put out of sight its changes.
WikiLeaks - the website that has unveiled the inside of over 250,000 ambassadorial cables from U.S. embassies to countries worldwide.
Cyberwar has been defined by security expert Richard A. Clarke as "actions by a nation-state to break in another nation's networks with the intention of causing disruption or damage."
Stuxnet apparent target is Iran. It aims at attacking infrastructures using Siemens control systems. Damages were inflicted on nuclear system in Natanz and caused delay in Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. Stuxnet has been designed to steal data about production lines from the Iranian industrial plants.
Stuxnet attacked Windows systems using 4 zero-day attacks and a vulnerability used by the Conficker worm. Stuxnet is roughly about 0.5 MB in size, and coded in different programming languages (including C).
Russian digital security company Kaspersky Labs released a declaration that portrayed Stuxnet as "a cyber-weapon that will show the way to the foundation of a new arms race in the world." Utilizing cybernetics, the new fighters can have an impact upon an entire nation-state, causing severe chaos and harm with a negligible outlay of endeavor. In 2010, we have been hit by warfare by two distinctive events: Stuxnet and WikiLeaks.
It can be observed that Stuxnet was sending information about the nuclear program to its creators. Very quickly, it forwarded quite a lot of details about the Iranian nuclear facilities. By then, the US knowledge about Iranian nuclear initiatives was the same as the Iranians, if not more. And this information involved not only services and machinery, but also human resources. It’s well possible that the 2 nuclear scientists assaulted on November 29 (one killed, one badly injured) were recognized as fundamental to the Iranian effort by Stuxnet.
Further support of the above can be easily acquired from the WikiLeaks saga. It is no overstatement to affirm that Julian Assange is engaged in cyber warfare. He is at war, not only with the US, but with the corrupted world leaders as a whole. Julian Assange can bee seen as a mythic figure, a man with a historical task.
The only thing that astounded many was news of China's eagerness with North Korea. The assurance that China would support North Korea to the last trench.
Scrutinize the sequence of events. Bradley Manning (United States Army soldier) stole many secret e-mails and forwarded them to WikiLeaks. The e-mails started off in great part from the Defense Department (Robert Gates), and the State Department (Hillary Clinton). The Justice Department (Eric Holder) couldn't make out what to do about the leaks. All of them work for Barack Obama. That's an appealing remarkable lineup. The only one missing is Van Jones, and he'll almost certainly crop up.
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