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Stuxnet

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Stuxnet - The 'New' Biggest Threat to the World's Economy or Just Another (Allbeit) Late 'Millenium Bug'?

http://search.bbc.co.uk/search?go=toolbar&uri=%2F&q=Stuxnet
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Stuxnet? 8 votes

Biggest Threat To The World's Economy
0% 0 votes
Undecided
12% 1 vote
Don't Care
0% 0 votes
Pure Hocus-Pokus
75% 6 votes
Just Another (Allbeit) Late 'Millenium Bug'
12% 1 vote
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  • jayme1
    jayme1 Posts: 2,154 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    it's definately not a millenium bug, and the virus has only been designed infect a cirtain corporate system (eg irans nuclear power stations) so it shouldnt effect home users or other big corprations, and apple will be fully secure
  • ESKIMO
    ESKIMO Posts: 254 Forumite
    It's specifically designed to target Microsoft Windows however there is growing concern that it is being developed to hijack other operating systems.
    Young At Heart and Ever The Optimist: "You can't sell ice to Eskimo."

    Waste Not, Want Not. - Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
  • John_Gray
    John_Gray Posts: 5,843 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    It certainly isn't a millennium bug, because it's misspelled. And ten (or eleven?) years late.
  • 23n1th
    23n1th Posts: 1,523 Forumite
    This: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002040.html is a more measured account regarding the malware.
  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Its an old story some people/news agency have only just caught up with it .
    If you are running a home computer it has no effect unless you attach to a nuclear reactor or overclock past 300TerraHertz .

    jje
  • ddoris
    ddoris Posts: 392 Forumite
    ESKIMO -IF YOU AREN'T CENTRIFUGING RADIO-ACTIVE STUFF YOU'LL BE OK , probably.
    And if you are mucking about with radioactive stuff, just don't use Siemens software -you'll be perfectly OK as well.
  • ESKIMO
    ESKIMO Posts: 254 Forumite
    ddoris wrote: »
    ESKIMO -IF YOU AREN'T CENTRIFUGING RADIO-ACTIVE STUFF YOU'LL BE OK , probably.
    And if you are mucking about with radioactive stuff, just don't use Siemens software -you'll be perfectly OK as well.

    Not quite, but i recently 'aquired' some WMDs :D as a trade and piece offering from aliens who were intrigued to tase raw fish i recently caught. They also said that and i quote; 'Elvis never left the building'. I think i'm halucinating from the Northern Lights.

    :eek:
    Young At Heart and Ever The Optimist: "You can't sell ice to Eskimo."

    Waste Not, Want Not. - Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
  • ddoris
    ddoris Posts: 392 Forumite
    Are we going into "Bad taste" ,"meatball machine" or maybe even "Bubba-ho-tep" territory ?
  • ESKIMO
    ESKIMO Posts: 254 Forumite
    ddoris wrote: »
    Are we going into "Bad taste" ,"meatball machine" or maybe even "Bubba-ho-tep" territory ?

    I love the fact that the American's have basically admitted to the fact that they are just normal human beings afterall.

    The very thought of the CIA and FBI scratching their heads over this and coming up with; "honestly, we don't really know how to stop it" has to be conceived as hillarious! - This was the nation that put a man on the moon! (Or did they...)
    Young At Heart and Ever The Optimist: "You can't sell ice to Eskimo."

    Waste Not, Want Not. - Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    The very thought of the CIA and FBI scratching their heads over this and coming up with; "honestly, we don't really know how to stop it" has to be conceived as hillarious! - This was the nation that put a man on the moon! (Or did they..

    Which nation would like to fix an Iranian reactor ???


    jje
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