Stuxnet May Represent New Trend In Malware

Trailrunner7 writes "As more information continues to come out about the Stuxnet worm and the vulnerabilities that it exploits, it's becoming increasingly clear that this kind of attack may be a preview of the attacks that are likely to become commonplace in the months and years ahead. The most interesting aspect of all of this is the fact that the attackers behind Stuxnet clearly knew about the vulnerability in the Siemens WinCC system before the malware was written. That implies the malware authors had some advance intelligence about the configuration of the Siemens software and knew exactly where there was a weakness."

Who could have guessed?

[briuq0ah]

Seriously? The attackers knew about the vulnerability before they wrote something to exploit it? I never would have guessed

Re:Uh - what?

[HAKdragon]

There aren't any commas, either.

Re:SCADA frustrations

[Anonymous Coward]

what a nice buzzword

business: $$$ for me
impact: a forceful, exciting word
analysis: smartness, i'm one of the smartest people on the planet
exercise: what i should do more of to keep my tight body

Re:SCADA frustrations

[Jaxoreth]

NO NO NO. installing a cocktail of AV software is NOT the answer in a system that has to do 27/7 operations and has to be kind of real-time responsive.

That's why most shops don't offer more than 24/7 uptime. The three extra hours a day is plenty of time to run AV software.