The following article by renowned security capability developer Dr. Anup Ghosh was was originally posted at the Invincea blog and is reposted here with the author's permission. ============= Question: what is the most significant cyber event of 2010? Answer: Stuxnet. While security analysts continue to marvel over Stuxnet’s capabilities, one disturbing aspect to Stuxnet is current defenses would not defend against the next Stuxnet type threat. … [Read more...]
Stuxnet: An important change in the national security landscape
September 27, 2010 By
There are some important strategic changes occurring in the national security landscape. A new kind of cyber attack has been noted, one that involves use of malicious code to attack infrastructure. There are some important points in this attack that should be understood by national security decision-makers. With the launch of the code the security community calls Stuxnet, an attack was made against a programmable logic controller (PLC) that runs a … [Read more...]