Let’s play… Global Thermonuclear War.
- The Fifth Domain of Warfare: Analysis of the recently identified ‘weaponized’ worm reads like a John le Carré novel for the 21st century. Experts say Stuxnet is the ‘best’ malware ever created.
- Stuxnet computer virus was designed to attack the critical industrial infrastructure that sits at the foundation of modern economies. Theoretically, a group of people located on one side of the planet could control a machine in a nuclear power plant on the other.
- Who’s Behind Stuxnet? The Americans? The Israelis?
- New cyber-weapon is attempting to infiltrate factory computers in China’s core industries – from traffic lights and oil rigs, to water purification and chemical plants, to power and nuclear plants – threatening the country’s national security.
- Stuxnet: Targeting the Iranian enrichment centrifuges in Natanz?
- For all you programmers out there: A look inside W32.Stuxnet.
- America’s X Files: Top U.S. airmen to accuse Air Force of cover-up as they claim UFOs have been deactivating nuclear missiles since 1948. More.
- Reports that the UN is poised to appoint an ‘alien ambassador’ a case of science fiction?
- Interstellar Archaeology on the Galactic Scale.
- Black strings are the bizarre, five-dimensional cousins of black holes.
- ‘A distant sparkling eruption of diamonds’: Hubble image shows ancient star cluster located about 50,000 light years away.
- Holy Cow, We’re Small. A visual collage of the scale of Earth compared to other planets, stars and galaxies.
- Terraforming Earth, Pt. 1: How to Wreck a Planet in 3,000 Years.
- Terraforming Earth, Pt. 2: The Law of Unintended Consequences.
- How global warming is aiding – and frustrating – archaeologists.
- Ancient Egypt’s pyramids: Norwegian researcher thinks he’s unlocked construction secrets.
- The rise and fall of Ancient Egypt.
- Neanderthals were ‘keen on tech’.
- ‘Volcanic winter’ blamed for extinction of Neanderthals.
- The first evidence for domesticated dogs has just got earlier.
- The Obama administration’s war on privacy. What a ‘wiretappable’ internet could mean for Facebook, Apple, Google, and You.
- Obama argues his assassination program is a “state secret”.
- On the (not so) gradual loss of liberty in the age of privileging security.
- It Is Official: The US Is a Police State.
- Twenty fictional mad scientists who turned against their creations.
Quotes of the Day:
Lumension’s Alan Bently: Stuxnet is the most refined piece of malware ever discovered. The worm is significant because mischief or financial reward wasn’t its purpose. It was aimed right at the heart of a critical infrastructure.
Ralph Langner: Until a few days ago, people did not believe a directed attack like this was possible. What Stuxnet represents is a future in which people with the funds will be able to buy an attack like this on the black market.
Roel Schouwenberg: This sounds like something out of a movie. But I would argue it’s plausible, suddenly plausible, that it was nation state-backed.
Arne Schoenbohm: Cyberspace has become the fifth military battlefield, after land, air, water and space.
Eugene Kaspersky: I think that this is the turning point … because in the past there were just cyber-criminals. Now I am afraid it is the time of cyber-terrorism, cyber-weapons and cyber-wars.
