“But in the 21st century, Bond doesn’t get the call,” Barnes reports. “Instead, the job is handled by a suave and very sophisticated secret computer worm, a jumble of code called Stuxnet, which in the last year has not only crippled Iran’s nuclear program but has caused a major rethinking of computer security around the globe.”
Barnes reports, “Stuxnet is an incredibly advanced, undetectable computer worm that took years to construct and was designed to jump from computer to computer until it found the specific, protected control system that it aimed to destroy: Iran’s nuclear enrichment program.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Whoda thunk it? Microsoft’s ineptitude turns out to be good for something after all! You should’ve got a Mac, Ahmadinejad, you batshit insane son-a-ma-batch.
“Here’s to the crazy ones,” indeed.
Now we’ll have to restrict Windows sales because it is “Strategic Software”
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Just remember that Hussein rhyme with insane.
Think about it now!
@Synth,
I agree. This thing is so sophisticated it has to be the work of the U.S. government. This is not your usual hacker special.
Even worse, most of the front ends are programmed in Visual Basic…
WTF. you’ve GOT to kidding. A 12 year old could hack that !!!
Does the NSA use VB and Windows? Our military? Our power plants?
All these should have their OWN OS and proprietary “programing language”. I DON’T believe the NSA is using VB and Windows, and NOONE else in high government, or critical positoins should be either.
I always knew that Windoze was bound to be good for something!
@Many Targets:
The real problem is that the human race has taken leave of its senses!!!
On a brighter note, Apple stock ended the day .12 under it’s all time high!
Windows 7 Phone = iRanPhone??
@AlanAudio , Hilarious! I LOLed out loud.
Finally Microsoft contributes to national security in a positive way.
Keep up the good work!
Mac unaffected!
It was that useless looking paper clip, wasn’t it?
I say this is a FoxNews social exploit. Exaggerating details. No matter what anyone else says.
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I wonder who created the worm. It’s very dangerous and evil. No way Alqaeda made it. The creator must be knowledgable on nuke reactor. This is really risky and evil. What do they try to achieve anyway? Third world war?
Wikipedia suggests,by way of multiple considerations, it was Israel.
Iran want’s to destroy Israel already, so it doesn’t really matter, they can’t get into any more trouble than they already are.
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We need that watch, before everything goes up… 🙁
The Trojan Camel strikes again.
Please, don’t mention OS X to Crapnodinjad! That would give them a lethal advantage:(
@danilko1,
Let’s see, Israel has at least 200 nuclear warheads. Iran has none.
Who’s the threat to whom?
Heya
Would any country capable of doing this, really would want the enemy to know?
Just dont make sense.
Or could it be Iran created the bug and tested it out on it system to infect the rest of the world?
To infect Israel?
Iran and north Korea have nuclear capabilities.That is no longer a doubt.
Whether they use it or not is point.
The Middle east power is becoming unbalanced , Israel no longer has any clout.
Just like China has taken over the US as the major superpower.
Or Hu Jintao as the most powerful leader in the world.
Hopefully we will all realise that might is NOT RIGHT.
I’m pretty sure that whoever wrote this worm would have had no problem breaking in if it was running on mac os x.
Wait a sec, I thought Steve Ballmer said that Windows is the most secure operating system out there? Not saying Mac OS X is the most secure operating system out there, but I’m just saying…!
This story, like so many others is UTTER bullshit.
More USA nonsense – anything to keep the Pentagon money cow going.
Do you Yanks realise that over 70% of your taxes goes to the insane warmongers?
What a stupid country the USA is…..
@Derik in Milan
You’re not helping. 70%? Not even close. American’s are not stupid, we just take sides no matter what the truth is. Many are sheep, as in most nations. We are a nation of many idologies and much polarization. Groups in the US will say anything, lies etc, to weaken political opposition and gain control of government in order to milk the cash cow. Any one who tries to change things either becomes a criminal, disappears, or gets killed. If they are lucky, they are called an idiot and ignored or paid to leave. In the simplest terms it’s called corruption, tell me who or what nation is not corrupt.
@Arnol Ziffel,
200 bombs? I forget some times they were helped to steel that technology. Somehow I think even that will not be a deterrent, in the future.
@MDN
The last sentence of the MDN take is totally off-topic. No need for political bashing.
A lot of Schadenfreude wrt M$ is what it’s about (and a little bit wrt the Iranians:). But the story mainly highlights the unreliable nature of MS Windows (even recent incarnations). I surely “our” governments are aware of the situation and DO NOT use Windows for critical systems.
The user agreement that accompanies Windows should contain a phrase: “…this software is not intended for critical systems on which human lives could depend…”, just like the user agreements that come with GPS software.
We’d be nukes already! So here’s to MS incompetence saving the day! For once.
Oh Moneyprnny, do behave! Now where is that Pussy Galore?!
M! M!!!…
“Of course, we have little to fear regarding Iran. They are being built into the boogie man du jour by our government and the mainstream media-industrial complex, because there are people who benefit by us being at perpetual war.”
Opinion, or conspiracy theory, of a moron. Read Wikileaks and see what their Arab neighbours say.