Re: [PLUG] Latest news on Cyber Warfare, Flame and Stuxnet related

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Bob Schwier <schwepes2002@yahoo.com> wrote:

Someone who isolated cyber attack one uses his (or her) results to create cyber attack
two. I'm sure that the Iranian hackers are working over time to find some way of getting
back at Israel and us.
I'm sure at some point they will succeed in this new form of spy vrs. spy.

bs

--- On Thu, 6/14/12, Conor Schaefer <conor.schaefer@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Conor Schaefer <conor.schaefer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Latest news on Cyber Warfare, Flame and Stuxnet related
To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Date: Thursday, June 14, 2012, 12:05 PM

Given the geopolitical implications of these attacks, it seems unlikely that it was multiple parties—especially considering how sophisticated the attacks were: http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/06/flame-crypto-breakthrough/

There simply aren't that many people in the world who could do it. Or so the story goes....

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Paul Walker <starsinmypockets@gmail.com> wrote:

Isn't it also possible that the makers of virus-2 simply had access to the codebase of virus-1 and using their programmer's wit just lifted some relevant code and dropped it into their worm?

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Sam Gleske <sam.mxracer@gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.rt.com/news/flame-stuxnet-kaspersky-iran-607/

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