A New chapter in History - World's first Cyber 'Super Weapon' attacked Iran

The CIA could have been behind a computer virus dubbed the world's first cyber 'super weapon' that attacked an Iranian nuclear plant, experts claim. 

The launch of Stuxnet in 2010 marked the transformation of viruses into weapons of war. 

Experts believe it was so sophisticated that it could have only been invented by designers with the backing of a nation state, with the spy arm of the U.S government being the main suspects.

It was purpose-built to attack Iran's Busehr nuclear plant, overriding and controlling circuits inside the plant to cause physical damage. 

It was the first malware that could truly be described as a 'cyber-weapon'.

'With Stuxnet we have opened a new chapter in human history,' says Ralph Langner, the security expert who unravelled the attack. 'There is now no way we can stop or control the proliferation of cyber-weapons.' 

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, visits the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of the capital, Tehran, Iran

'Everybody is going crazy about the offensive capabilities and opportunities it gives you,' says Ralph Langner. 'What people don't realise is how easy such attacks are'

To begin with, the sheer sophistication of the attack was what dazzled experts - it exploited four separate vulnerabilities in Windows to penetrate and override industrial control systems designed by Siemens. 

It would have taken experts months to design.

But in the wake of Stuxnet, it's become clear that the weapon was almost over-designed for the job. 

The Stuxnet attack on Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant - a computer 'worm' specifically written to attack industrial control systems - was proof that the software in many industrial plants was vulnerable to attack.

Since then, there has been increased interest in the idea - both from researchers, and from potential attackers. Since then, other software has 'copied' Stuxnet - raising the alarming possibility of attackers simply downloading such weapons and unleashing them at will. 

Nations across the world have long warned that future wars will include cyber assaults on the industries and economies of adversaries, and the potential targets include power plants, pipelines and air traffic control systems.

More and more industrial equipment is connected to the internet - rendering it vulnerable to attacks by hackers

Relatively unsophisticated 'computers' used to control industrial devices are 'open' to the internet - leaving plants such as Busehr vulnerable to attack.

In theory, many plants - including utilities such as water and gas - are open to such attacks. 

Earlier this month, suspicions were raised about a remote attack on a water plant in America - but it proved to be an engineer accessing his work remotely.

But governments, including Britain's, are trying desperately to shield vulnerable utilities before someone deploys the next cyber weapon.

The British government recently bought a 'cyber range' - designed to allow 'testing' of networks to harden them against hostile intrusions.

A senior engineer checks a rack in the main cyber range at Northrop Grumman near Southampton - a 'test-firing' range made to design, improve and modify electronic security arrangements

In America, government agencies are also taking action.

Acting DHS Deputy Undersecretary Greg Schaffer said that industries are increasingly vulnerable to hackers and foreign agents due to 'connected' equipment - and 'there have been intrusions.' 

'We are connecting equipment that has never been connected before to global networks,' Schaffer said. Hackers and perhaps foreign governments 'are knocking on the doors of these systems - there have been intrusions.'

'Everybody is going crazy about the offensive capabilities and opportunities it gives you,' Langner adds. 'What people don’t realise is how easy such attacks are, and that you don’t need the resources of a nation state to pull them off. 

'We can predict that rogue states, terrorists, criminals and hackers will soon be able to use them.' 

'Some time ago at a conference where I had expressed my belief that Langley and the Department of Energy were the leading forces behind Stuxnet , I was later approached in private by an official of the US military who said: 'You’re right, we are simply not smart enough to do something like this.' If the Pentagon had developed Stuxnet, it might have been much more crude and brute-force.'

The 'Stuxnet' worm - a sophisticated cyber attack on the Bushehr nuclear plant in Iran opened a new era of cyber-warfare. Duqu, detected in Europe, may well be from the 'same authors' says security firm Symantec

Many observers thought that the sophistication of Stuxnet would have required the resources of a nation to design. Others suspected it was produced by the U.S. or Israel. 

The copycat, Duqu, required much less skill, though: it simply copied 

Duqu is designed to penetrate industrial systems and send information to its creators. It's designed to run for 36 days, sending innocent 'dummy' images to its creators, then hiding stolen information such as design documents amongst them as it operates. 

Unlike Stuxnet, it doesn't self-replicate inside computer systems - and is seen as a 'precursor' to an attack designed to cause physical or financial damage.

 

Symantec says that the detection of Duqu does not mean that the danger is over.

'The threat was highly targeted toward a limited number of organizations for their specific assets,' said the security firm in a statement. 'However, it’s possible that other attacks are being conducted against other organizations in a similar manner with currently undetected variants.'

The nuclear power plant in Bushehr, southern Iran, which was the target of the Stuxnet worm. The Duqu worm is similar but is designed to steal information rather than cause physical damage

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it was aware of the reports and was taking action.

'DHS' Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team has issued a public alert and will continue working with the cybersecurity research community to gather and analyze data and disseminate further information to our critical infrastructure partners as it becomes available,' a DHS official said.

'Parts of Duqu are nearly identical to Stuxnet, but with a completely different purpose,' Symantec said. 'Duqu is essentially the precursor to a future Stuxnet-like attack.' 

Duqu is designed to gather data from industrial control system manufacturers to make it easier to launch an attack in the future by capturing information including keystrokes.

"The attackers are looking for information such as design documents that could help them mount a future attack on an industrial control facility,' Symantec said.

In a 2007 test at the Idaho National Laboratory, government hackers were able to break into the control system running a large diesel generator, causing it to self-destruct.

Before the test, he said, the notion of cyber warfare 'was mainly smoke and mirrors. But the Aurora tests showed that, you know what? We have a new kind of weapon.'

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Aaron Russo - Rockefeller admitted the elite's goal is to get everyone 'Microchipped'

Aaron Russo (February 14, 1943 - August 24, 2007) was an entertainment businessman, filmmaker, libertarian political activist, and 9/11 'conspiracy theorist' (which is what everyone is called by the whole western worlds 'thruthspreading media' who questiones our highly praised 'elite and leaders'). 

He is most known for producing the movies Trading Places, Wise Guys, and The Rose. Later in life he created the documentaries Mad as Hell, which calls into question the current state of governmental affairs and America: Freedom to Fascism, which investigates the breadth of the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the IRS, and the Federal Reserve System. After a six year battle with bladder cancer, Russo died on August 24, 2007.

About 11 months before 9/11 Aaron Russo talked with Nicholas Rockefeller (one of all the traitors in the famous and praised Rockefeller family) where he (Nicholas Rockefeller, removed from the reliable Wikipedia that has NO connections whatsoever with the corrupt banking industry!!...Ha-ha!!!) admitted that the elite's goal is to microchip the world's entire population in order to controll and enslave everyone to 100 %.

He also revealed that the events on 9/11 and the so called 'War on Terror' was a complete fraud in order to achive their goal's.

This is an absolute 'MUST SEE AND HEAR'!! 

Anyone who hasn't lived on an other planet the resent years can not have missed that this 'work' to try to reach these goal's is 'in full swing' and that they are VERY, VERY close now to achieve them!!!!!

So WAKE UP and inform everyone you can!!!....The clock is ticking and is 

Human Cloning in Korea continues...

Korean scientists are at it again.  Professor Park Se-pill at Jeju National University is attempting to clone human embryos after the disgrace of his fellow countryman Hwang Woo-Suk. 

Hwang claimed he was the first to clone human embryos and destroy them from their stem cells.  This claim was revealed to be false but not before Hwang enjoyed enormous celebrity status including a nod on an official postage stamp depicting a paralyzed patient getting up and walking again.Cloning embryos to get patient-specific embryonic stem cells (stem cells genetically identical to the patient) has been a dismal failure.  In the meantime researchers have put young women’s reproductive health and even their lives at risk to retrieve the hundreds of human eggs need for even one attempt at cloning a human embryo.  Even Hwang lied about how many eggs it took in his attempts at cloning.  He claimed he improved the process and needed less eggs. In reality, Hwang blew through many as 2,000 eggs from as many as 120 women in his failed attempt to become the first to clone a human embryo.  Some of those eggs came from 2 junior researchers in Hwang’s own lab.

This commodification of women’s bodies by cloning researchers is totally unnecessary because scientists can create patient-specific embryonic-like stem cells without cloning and without eggs.  These cells are called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and some are calling them the new super model in biological research.  Instead of cloning a human embryo and destroying him or her for the stem cells inside, scientists take a cell from the patient and reprogram it back to an embryonic-like state.  No human organisms created and destroyed, no eggs needed and no specter of using the technology for reproductive cloning (cloning to produce children) in the future.

And yet Park Se-pill is still trying to clone human embryos.  And he says he will do it before 2015.   From The Korea Times:

Professor Park Se-pill at Jeju National University is striving to clone human embryonic stem cells by 2015, the much-touted breakthrough that no scientists have ever achieved.

The embryologist plans to start cloning human embryos and establishing stem cell batches from them beginning next year.

“Recently, the government approved Cheju National University as eligible to conduct human embryonic studies. We now need to get separate okays for specific research projects,” Park said.

“We will be able to start the work on human embryonic stem cells next year with the aim of finishing them by 2015. It will be tough as nobody has achieved it yet but we will do our best.”

What Park is trying to do is exactly the same as what Hwang Woo-suk, a former professor at Seoul National University, claimed to have done — though the purported feat later proved to be false.

Hwang stole the spotlight in the mid 2000s when two papers on the human embryonic stem cells were published as cover-story articles by the U.S. journal Science.

The exploits were expected to bring possible treatments for degenerative diseases such as diabetes but his work was found to be based on fabricated data and his team actually did not extract stem cells from the cloned human embryos.

“In fact, things are much difficult now compared to when Hwang carried out his research because we are now not allowed to use fresh eggs to duplicate embryos,” Park said.

“Instead, we have to depend on frozen eggs so that the success rate will be very low as amply demonstrated in animal experiments. We need to fix this problem.”

Hwang’s exploitation of women in his quest for cloning made South Korean outlaw the use of fresh eggs for these experiments so at least this time Se-pill cannot exploit young women just for his attempts.

But what if he successful?  What then?  Will the ban on using fresh eggs in his country stand?  Will the frenzy that surrounded Hwang the first time mean an end to these protections for women against exploitation for cloning research?

And what will it mean for young women worldwide?  Will a cloning boom mean an even more intense market for human eggs?  Will it mean more poor women putting their fertility and lives at risk to satisfy the insatiable appetite of cloners?

I am certain it will.  And for what?  Stem cells we can get through other means.  Thus proving what I have believed all along.  Cloning for stem cells is not about stem cells nor treating patients.  It is about creating human clones plain and simple.  Just because we can.  I love this quote from former President George W. Bush:

“Anything other than a total ban on human cloning would be virtually impossible to enforce. Cloned human embryos created for research would be widely available in laboratories and embryo farms. Once cloned embryos were available, implantation would take place. Even the tightest regulations and strict policing would not prevent or detect the birth of cloned babies.”

LifeNews.com Note: Rebecca Taylor is a clinical laboratory specialist in molecular biology, and a practicing pro-life Catholic who writes at the bioethics blog Mary Meets Dolly. She has been writing and speaking about Catholicism and biotechnology for five years and has been interviewed on EWTN radio on topics from stem cell research and cloning to voting pro-life. Taylor has a B.S. in Biochemistry from University of San Francisco with a national certification in clinical Molecular Biology MB (ASCP).

Seriously Deluded..... Freemason admits "We Worship Lucifer"

Freemason admits: We Worship Lucifer, or "I Am Lucifer"
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No Joke..... Leaked Pentagon Video - Flu Vaccine to modify 'Religious Fundamentalists'

What you are about to hear is not science fiction or conspiracy theory but a glimpse of what is going on behind the closed doors of the United States Pentagon. 

In a small auditorium labeled BC232 a man is presenting a discussion on how the military industrial complex can spread a virus and use a vaccine to extinguish what the pentagon calls undesirable human behavior. Specifically in this case religious behavior. 

This is dark science my friends. With all the mandatory vaccine programs in the United States do not be deceived for a moment that something like this will not or possibly hasn't already been used on the American public. 

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/06/13/video-dod-officials-discuss-elimi...