How digital detectives deciphered Stuxnet, the most menacing malware in history

[btfc]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/...story.ars/

[Ken Sp.]

GREAT read--Thanks btfc

[OWC Jamie]

Fantastic read Thanks for posting!!

[GGD]

An equally interesting story would be the team that created it in the first place, for each member of the team that deconstructed it, there was a similar expert on the team that created it, maybe someday they'll get to tell their grandchildren some war stories.

[decay]

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.

[ztirffritz]

That was really interesting. Scary, but interesting.

[space-time]

there was a related story in NYT a few months ago, although not as technical as this one IIRC

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/...uxnet.html

[testcase]

Very interesting.

[Speedy]

Or very interesting story telling.

testcase wrote:
Very interesting.

[deckeda]

I liked it as well. Makes you wonder how far they would have taken things if they'd discovered the authors, or if that discovery would have prevented them from going as far as they did. So do you think the two encrypted files that couldn't crack are uncrackable, or that they stopped trying ... for whatever reason.