Was Conficker Stuxnet's Trojan? 57
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from the malware-voltron dept.
from the malware-voltron dept.
Rambo Tribble writes "Reuters has published a provocative article describing the findings of cyberwarfare expert John Bumgarner, a former Army intelligence officer. His contention is that Conficker identified targets, then opened the door for Stuxnet. 'His analysis challenges a common belief that Conficker was built by an Eastern European criminal gang to engage in financial fraud. The worm's latent state had been a mystery for some time. It appears never to have been activated in the computers it infected, and security experts have speculated that the program was abandoned by those who created it because they feared getting caught after Conficker was subjected to intense media scrutiny. If confirmed, Bumgarner's work could deepen understanding of how Stuxnet's commanders ran the cyber operation that last year sabotaged an underground facility at Natanz, where Iranian scientists are enriching uranium using thousands of gas centrifuges.'"
Re:Macbook (Score:5, Insightful)
No current operating system is immune to exploits. An accurate statement would be 'I use apple because their low population in the wild makes them unpopular targets for malware authors to write exploits for'.
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Re:Macbook (Score:4, Insightful)
I use apple because their low population in the wild makes them unpopular targets for malware authors to write exploits for.
So, what's Linux' excuse, considering vast numbers of it installed on servers and numerous other devices power the web?
Hint: fragility makes Win* the preferred target, not popularity.