Thread: Weaponized AC/DC!?

They should have hit them with some RAP videos;
then on second thought ,
It would be more humane to use Stealth Bombers.

I think a dose of Mr Methane thrown in the mix would be good for a few laughs.

Playing Yoko Ono would have started a war for sure. The inhumanity of it!

Yoko would have made the whole scientific team disband and go solo - too dangerous!

Yoko's caterwauling probably would have done serious damage to the reactors or something. Anybody wanna speculate on who is behind this? Almost certainly Israel, and I figure at least a knowing wink and a lot of look the other way from the US. That and some of the assassinations of key personnel are very interesting. I can't imagine all-out war with Iran (who could probably expect at least some help from Russia, China, Syria et al). Interesting times, gentlemen...

As funny as it is, it's a really scary thing if those same systems were tied into the control systems. The concept of "hacking" fascinates me...

You should read about stuxnet.

How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History | Threat Level | Wired.com

Originally Posted by shooter74743

As funny as it is, it's a really scary thing if those same systems were tied into the control systems. The concept of "hacking" fascinates me...

Interesting story indeed, especially the part where the hacker is still at large and had plenty of time to write a LOT of code...

You are starting from a false premise. Code such as stuxnet is not the work of a 'hacker'.
It is the work of a team back by some serious players. stuxnet is complex, and would have required

1) some serious windows hacking know-how to come up with 4 zero-day exploits*. This is heavy stuff.
2) expert knowledge and exact details of the siemens systems which ran the centrifuges. this includes the ability to reprogram the controllers at runtime without anyone noticing, and then fooling the monitoring systems by faking telemetry data while subtly disrupting the control process. Again, this requires experts.
3) physically breaking into 2 electronics / software firms in taiwan and stealing their private signing keys.

I recently attended a talk by Mark Russinovich, and he said it is almost certain that it was a US-Israeli intelligence effort. He was scared most by the fact that they had gone so far as to steal private software keys for signing the virus code, because that was a step in the malware arms race which had so far not been taken by anyone.

By the same token, the ACDC music thing is the work of a complete amateur / prankster, not meant to do any real work.
Malware such as stuxnet is designed to stay unnoticed for as long as possible. Stuxnet was only discovered by sheer dumb luck after having been at work for years. Being unnoticed is a prime objective.

Playing ACDC loudly from the speakers kind of goes against the whole point of having malware for intelligence purposes

(*) a zero-day exploit is a bug in a piece of software which is unknown by the industry and for which there is no antivirus signature. So whn it is discovered, the industry has zero days to deal with it. When bugs are reported by security researchers in private, they agree on a numbe rof days after which the exploit is made public. during that time, the security industry and the software vendor have the time to update virus scanners and create bugfixes.