USB Warfare: The Real Electronic Nightmare

But there are other ways to wage electronic war, and they tend to be more terrifying precisely because they’re tougher to fight. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by J Sinclaire - Sep 22, 2010 - 6:25 AM PDT
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Warrior Wheatman
4.4
by Warrior Wheatman - Sep. 23, 2010

A clever (and realistic) title to a report from Siemens on discovering a worm meant specificly for industrial plants.

the worm reportedly found its way — without causing major damage — into 14 plants in Germany, Indonesia, India, North America, the United Kingdom and (primarily) Iran. More »

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Naomi Isler
4.1
by Naomi Isler - Sep. 22, 2010

It seems to be factual; not sure if 'fair' is an issue. Scary is. What it doesn't go into, probably because of security concerns (?) is how successful the antidotes (if that's the word) are, and what preventive measures are possible.

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Bill White
4.0
by Bill White - Sep. 22, 2010

I like the author's self-identified attitude that "threats of 'cyberwarfare' waged through the public internet are the stuff of Hollywood schlock and patriotic pulp fiction". I think in general he's right about this particular threat. The conflict between security and usefulness is always vexing. The Stuxnet seems to have been propagated by a desire to make monitoring of data center equipment very easy. But somehow the application was corrupted. More attention to security could, perhaps, have avoided it, but how many hoops are busy Data Center managers going to jump through?

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Henry M. Green
3.0
by Henry M. Green - Sep. 26, 2010

Fear inducing to to average reader, however the techno-junkie will know the effects of such viruses are far from our current capabilities. The article is thought provoking however.

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