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Black Market
BRITIST-Sky News, the Stuxnet worm has already been traded on the black market. The report does not clarify whether this refers to the source code or to binary samples. British security specialists now fear that terrorists could use the worm to attack critical infrastructure. The report quotes an IT security consultant to the UK government as claiming, "You could shut down power stations, you could shut down the transport network across the United Kingdom".
Audun Lødemel, VP of Marketing and Business Development at German IT service provider Norman, believes that, "It was just a matter of time before the Stuxnet code was made available for anyone, with even the most basic knowledge of coding, to alter and potentially wreak havoc on the UK infrastructure. This is serious stuff and Oil & Gas, Railways, Electricity and Water services should now be on Red Alert".
Nonetheless, Stuxnet remains the most sophisticated vehicle available for putting together malicious code aimed at industrial systems running on Microsoft Windows.
Black Market
BRITIST-Sky News, the Stuxnet worm has already been traded on the black market. The report does not clarify whether this refers to the source code or to binary samples. British security specialists now fear that terrorists could use the worm to attack critical infrastructure. The report quotes an IT security consultant to the UK government as claiming, "You could shut down power stations, you could shut down the transport network across the United Kingdom".
Audun Lødemel, VP of Marketing and Business Development at German IT service provider Norman, believes that, "It was just a matter of time before the Stuxnet code was made available for anyone, with even the most basic knowledge of coding, to alter and potentially wreak havoc on the UK infrastructure. This is serious stuff and Oil & Gas, Railways, Electricity and Water services should now be on Red Alert".
Nonetheless, Stuxnet remains the most sophisticated vehicle available for putting together malicious code aimed at industrial systems running on Microsoft Windows.