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Stuxnet expert: Other sites were hit but Natanz was true target. Stuxnet may have hit different organizations, but its main target was still the Natanz nuclear enrichment plant in Iran, an expert who has analyzed the code said today.
Ralph Langner, who has been analyzing the code used in the complicated Stuxnet worm that used a Windows hole to target industrial control systems used in gas pipelines and power plants last year and possibly earlier, said the initial distribution of Stuxnet was limited to a few key installations. "My bet is that one of the infected sites is Kalaye Electric," he wrote in an e-mail to CNET. "Again, we don't have evidence for this, but this is how we would launch the attack - infecting a handful of key contractors with access to Natanz. " Langner was responding to a report (PDF)released late last week by Symantec that said five different organizations in Iran were targeted by a variant of Stuxnet, several of them more than once, dating back to June 2009.
The Oil Spill: Accident or Cyber Attack? “Even now, I can’t find the words to explain the kinds of horrors that are happening,” wrote Nurjan Tulegabylova with El Agartuu, a women’s organization based in Kyrgyzstan.
“There are burned houses, but the worst is that corpses of people are lying on the street.” In June, in the span of 2-3 days, over 2,000 people were killed and hundreds of thousands of people displaced in southern Kyrgyzstan. Violence erupted in Osh and Jalal-Abad in the Ferghana Valley, where Uzbeks make up 15 percent of the population.
Kyrgyzs gangs set on fire homes and businesses in Uzbek neighborhoods, forcing over 100,000 ethnic Uzbeks to seek refuge by crossing the border to Uzbekistan. The Uzbek government accepted 75,000 refugees, but quickly sealed off the border leaving thousands of ethnic Uzbeks homeless and living in fear. Invisible Victims The most vulnerable during this conflict, however, are women who have experienced harassment, rape, and murder. Organizing for Peace Yet there are some hopeful signs. Deepwater oil rig had Windows BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) - Business. A computer that monitored drilling operations on the Deepwater Horizon had been freezing with a "blue screen of death" prior to the explosion that sank the oil rig last April, the chief electronics technician aboard testified Friday at a federal hearing.
"Blue screen of death," or BSOD, is a term most often used to describe the display shown by Microsoft Windows after a serious crash that has incapacitated a PC. In his testimony Friday, Michael Williams, the chief electronics technician aboard the Transocean-owned Deepwater Horizon, said that the rig's safety alarm had been habitually switched to a bypass mode to avoid waking up the crew with middle-of-the-night warnings. Williams said that a computer control system in the drill shack would still record high gas levels or a fire, but it would not trigger warning sirens, according to numerous reports, including stories published by the New York Times and New Orleans' largest daily, the Times-Picayune.
'Blue Screen of Death' on Oil Rig's Computer ( Deepwater Horizon Oilspill ) Skip to comments. 'Blue Screen of Death' on Oil Rig's Computer ( Deepwater Horizon Oilspill ) HardOCP ^ | Saturday July 24, 2010 | Al Posted on Sat Jul 24 19:30:38 2010 by Ernest_at_the_Beach Testifying at a federal hearing on Friday, the chief electronics technician told of numerous instances of a "Blue Screen of Death" on the computer system responsible for monitoring and controlling drilling.
The largest oil spill in American history may be due to a simple computer glitch. The machine had been locking up for months, Williams said, producing what he and others on the crew called a "blue screen of death. " (Excerpt) Read more at hardocp.com ... TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: LouisianaKEYWORDS: oilspill Navigation: use the links below to view more comments. first 1-50, 51-100, 101-131 next last To: Ernest_at_the_Beach Paging Bill Gates, Please pick up the blue courtesy phone. Don’t these geniuses have an IT department? They need QNX or the like.