07-11-2011, 09:26 PM
intense.
Stuxnet was different from all of these. It wasn't an evolution in malware, but a revolution. The idea that someone would create such a sophisticated worm to slither blindly through networks in search of a single target was "leaps and bounds" beyond what the Symantec researchers had expected. "I could work in this industry for another twenty years and never see another project like this," O Murchu said recently.
Stuxnet was different from all of these. It wasn't an evolution in malware, but a revolution. The idea that someone would create such a sophisticated worm to slither blindly through networks in search of a single target was "leaps and bounds" beyond what the Symantec researchers had expected. "I could work in this industry for another twenty years and never see another project like this," O Murchu said recently.