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  • More on Stuxnet – Some Views

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      Stunxnet is beyond imagination. Bloggers claim its targets are beyond process, power and nuclear plants. Siemens systems are also being used in Space as well as Traffic control systems like railways. If you have seen Die Hard 4.0 you can have your imagination rolling!  Now its clear why hackers targeted Siemens systems. But still…

  • 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.…

  • Lost in the Clouds!

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    When I first heard about cloud computing I was wondering if it was really worth the fancy terminology. To me it was just a marketing term for hosted applications. My first experience started three years ago when I moved my Website’s email from my hosting provider to Google Apps. At that point of time I…

  • Analysis Paralysis

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    I was wondering how helpful is ‘blinking’ (https://shankarananth.com/?p=208) a few weeks back. Now when I have take crucial decisions I really find value to blinking. Too many facts and figures are only confusing as much as not allowing to take a decision at all. I wonder about the equilibrium that exists in this universe that…