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Stuxnet the movie: The U.S. has pwned Iran

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The new documentary about Stuxnet, ‘Zero Days’, says the U.S. had a far larger cyber operation against Iran called Nitro Zeus that has compromised the country’s infrastructure and could be used as a weapon in any future war.

Quoting unnamed sources from inside the NSA and CIA, the movie says the Nitro Zeus program has infiltrated the systems controlling communications, power grids, transportation and financial systems, and is still ready to “disrupt, degrade and destroy” that infrastructure if a war should break out with Iran.

The multi-million dollar program was run from within the NSA during the same time Stuxnet was active, and was put in place should the U.S. be drawn into a war there because Israel launched an attack against Iran, according the film by academy award winning director Alex Gibney. The movie opened in U.S. theaters today.

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Documentary Explores The Cyber-War Secrets Of Stuxnet – NPR

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Documentary Explores The Cyber–War Secrets Of Stuxnet
NPR
Alex Gibney's new documentary, Zero Days, looks at the Stuxnet worm — a cyber weapon developed by the U.S. and Israel. Gibney talks to NPR's Ari Shapiro about the film and the future of cyber warfare. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: On today's All Tech Considered …

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Stuxnet was the opening shot of decades of non-stop cyber warfare – The Register

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Stuxnet was the opening shot of decades of non-stop cyber warfare
The Register
The use of such cyber-weapons in the future, however, may mean more countries end up in low-level conflicts more or less continuously. Military strategists are still grappling with the domain of cyber–warfare, which is particularly fraught because of …

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Indegy finds out when industrial controls go bad (think Stuxnet)

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Israeli startup Indegy monitors devices on industrial control networks to detect when their configurations have changed as a way to know when the machines are compromised, an attack vector exploited by the Stuxnet worm that took down Iranian nuclear centrifuges.

The company makes an appliance that attaches to span ports on the switches that industrial control devices are connected to. It monitors the control layers of the devices and traffic they send over the network in order to discover changes.

+ ALSO: Stuxnet reached its target via the networks of trusted business partners+

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Network World Tim Greene