Shankar Ananth Asokan

Tag: Threat

  • Stuxnet – The New Generation Control Systems Computer Worm

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    Stuxnet is a Windows-specific computer worm first discovered in June 2010 by VirusBlokAda, a security firm based in Belarus. It is the first discovered worm that spies on and reprograms industrial systems. It was specifically written to attack Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems used to control and monitor industrial processes.Stuxnet includes the capability…

  • The Google Threat

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    If you have watched movies like Die Hard 4.0 or War Games you can potentially know how much can be done with information on centralized systems. Though the themes of these movies are fiction, reality is quite close or even worse. Consider the amount of information Google has. They have an awful lot of data.…