Despite Denial, Iran’s Nuclear Program Still Threatened by Cyber Attack
- Posted on December 9, 2010 at 8:33pm by
Meredith Jessup
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Iran’s nuclear program is still struggling to contain a computer virus that attacked their facilities, despite its leaders’ claims to the contrary. Experts from the United States and Europe warn that their own security websites continue to be bombarded with traffic from Tehran, an indication that the computer worm known as Stuxnet continues to infect computer systems at the Islamic Republic’s two nuclear sites.
Considered the “most sophisticated cyberweapon every created,” the Stuxnet worm is a kind of cybermissile specifically designed to penetrate advanced security systems.
According to Fox News, the bug took over the controls of Iran’s uranium processing center in Natanz and has also targeted the nuclear reactor in Bashehr.
Last week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed the worm had been detected and controlled. However, Fox News reports that this claim “doesn’t ring true” with computer science experts:
At one of the larger American web companies offering advice on how to eliminate the worm, traffic from Iran has swamped that of its largest user: the United States.
“Our traffic from Iran has really spiked,” said a corporate officer who asked that neither he nor his company be named. “Iran now represents 14.9 percent of total traffic, surpassing the United States with a total of 12.1 percent. Given the different population sizes, that is a significant number.”
Perhaps more significantly, traffic from Tehran to the company’s site is now double that of New York City.
According to Ralph Langner, a German expert who first raised alarms about Stuxnet, the fact the worm is still digging is not surprising. “The Iranians don’t have the depth of knowledge to handle the worm or understand its complexity,” he told Fox News, suggesting the Iranians may never fully succeed in eliminating it.
“Here is their problem. They should throw out every personal computer involved with the nuclear program and start over, but they can’t do that. Moreover, they are completely dependent on outside companies for the construction and maintenance of their nuclear facilities. They should throw out their computers as well. But they can’t,“ he said. “They will just continually re-infect themselves.”
“With the best of expertise and equipment it would take another year for the plants to function normally again because it is so hard to get the worm out,” he said. “It even hides in the back-up systems. But they can’t do it.”
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Bad Thunder
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 10:31amA worm for a worm……how appropriate
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:41pmThank you to whomever is behind Stuxwhatever.
God bless you, Israel, the OTHER Lone Star State….
Report Post »America IS behind you, no matter what the Left and its collaborator/self-hating Jews wants you to think.
dontbotherme
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:01pmWe are off to our underground bunker.
Report Post »WAR PIGS CRAWLING
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 10:28pmI’m sure nothing bad will come of it, being that Ahmadinejad has given us his word. I for one will sleep a lot better tonight knowing that that uranium processing center and nuclear reactor are under complete control. Now if you’ll excuse me, I am off to my vacation home in the north of Chernobyl.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 10:07pmWebsites will always be subject to attack. Until the hackers grow up and become adults (not age wise). Unfortunately with hackers they will always be around just like Democrats. They think they don’t have to play by the rules.
Report Post »BlazingPatriot
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 9:58pmHey Ahmadinejad ……the best is yet to come!
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 9:56pmCareful Blaze, Mercury will be Retrograde throught the holidays.
Report Post »spendthrift
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 9:52pmLooks like the FCC has their reason to censor OUR internet.
Report Post »SemperCivis4Ever
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 10:38pmPersians are not Arabs and Ahmadinejad’s family name is “Sabourjian” which is Jewish-Persian for cloth-cutter. As Hitler had Jewish blood, so does Amenidinejad. He’s got that communicable mental-disease of Islam caught from:
LINEAGE OF ARABS (Descendants of Ham) – Archeological Research garnered from tablet fragments: Hittite, Akkadian and Sumerian:
1.3000 BCE descendants of Canaan, grandson of Noah via Ham break out of their proscribed region – southern Turkey – immediately north of the Euphrates River – True “Syria”. Some move southward into the Levant. Most rename themselves As-Syrians. They garner iron from the Hittites and invade and destroy Haran, Assur (neighboring cities ) and attack Nineveh.
2.300-600 years later they have burnt Niniveh to the ground and made Babylon their capitol (Babylon founded by Nimrod I, firstborn of Ham).
3.Later the Akkadian King, Sargon of Niniveh heritage, recaptures northern Mesopotamia and conquers Babylon, making it his capitol as Niniveh was still in ruins.
4.From several recorded Sumerian records from Ubaid, Ur and Uruk tell of the children of Nimrod/children of the Assyrians evacuate Babylon and move into the North-Central grass plains of the Arabian Peninsula. THEY ARE THE FIRST ARABS(ARABIANS).
5.From previous historical records, it is known that the peoples living south of the Euphrates River, down the Euphrates River. East through the Indus region and Persia and the peoples of seacoast of the Arabian Peninsula and Ethiopia are descendants are the first born of Noah (Shem), and they do not intermarry with the descendants of Ham.
6.Midianites, at their root, are Sumerian sheepherders who later combined with offspring of the House of Abraham (a Sumerian), combined with or intermarried to peoples from the Kingdom of Sheba (Yemen) and Ethiopia.
7.MOST IMPORTANT CLUE: Every culture had a signature animal symbol. Throughout Mesopotamia and the regions of the second born of Noah (Japeth) – The Caucasus, Turkey, Black Sea (also East and West), it was the bull. You find artifact Bulls in silver, copper, bronze and other materials. The Hamites created a half-man/half-bull symbol which they called Baal. Time of origination dates to circa 3000 BCE in Lebanon at what is now the place known as Baalbek (megalithic platform structure). As for the Arabs from the grassy central plain of Arabia, over time they migrated and founded Medina. They would have been Baal worshippers. Medina was founded near Mecca which was a thriving trade center for agriculture, minerals, frankensense everything coming up from Yemen.
EMERGENCE OF ISLAM
Mohammed’s wife (Khadija) inherited the camel train cartage business when her husband died, but could not keep it unless she had a husband for legal ownership purposes. (LIKE IN KORAN) She found an idiot teenager who could not read or write, and that was Mohammed. When she died, the other relatives gave Mohammed money and they took over the business. Mohammed travels with them. Near Ebla, Syria (Modern Syria), the rich idiot Mohammed teams up with Syrian mercenaries. The cult of domination – Submit or Die – Slavery of Women, begins there. They call him their prophet and use him. Between Midian and Syria, along the road east of the Dead Sea/Jordan Valley, that’s where Mohammed has epiphany in a cave. Later they settle in Medina/Mecca.
SOURCES ON MOHAMMED: University of Chicago, Oriental Institute, Oxford in Britain (Syrian, Egyptian, Coptic, Middle Eastern, Yemeni, Ethiopian articles – English Translations)
TO STUDY THE ANCIENT CULT-RELIGION OF BAAL EXPLAINS the divergence of Islam from Judaism and the adoption of dominating, killing, lying cheating and other anti-civilization aspects. Throughout the entire ancient world, the bull which was the machine-tractor of the ancient world was depicted and revered but only worshipped by Hamites (Assyrian, Canaanites, Southern Egyptians) Baal is recorded as the God of War/Violence/Storms/Domination. These are the root aspects that were worshipped in Medina, and when Medina conquered Mecca (which worshipped the God of Israel, as all Shemites/Midianites would), they supplanted those things into the new religion – Islam.
HISTORIC INTERVIEW: artist Marc Rubin explains on Israel National Radio: http://www.marcrubin.com/judean-eve.ivnu
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