Mit Week 5
The Stuxnet digital assault on the Iranian Nuclear facilities at Natanz is seen by a lot of people as the first genuine digital weapon. This makes Stuxnet's super vitality as an issue unparalleled in present day digital world and particularly worth a debate. Lessons gained from the Stuxnet digital assault empower brainpower and the internet experts, as digital chiefs, to better work inside the area. Programmers around the world appear to be constantly programming security programs, for which states pay billions of dollars. Though the vulnerability of intrusion has leapt into the world cyberspace with Stuxnet and has left nothing secured.
1. Why is the Stuxnet event considered to be historic?
Stuxnet has a taken the modern warfare into a new level as a whole. Stuxnet has shown that there is no such thing as "flawless" IT security. By good or bad Stuxnet is considered historic because it is the first instance that a country and its cyberspace was targeted and crippled temporarily. Stuxnet has directly dealt a lethal blow on Iran’s nuclear facilities and its oil export facilities for a while. The ever-daunting question of keeping a check on the cyberspace privacy or security has been brought up in the world stage with Stuxnet.
2. What is a danger that the creators of Stuxnet have created for other industrial counties, including the United States? What is the greatest fear created by Stuxnet?
The dilemma and peril that haunt the creators of Stuxnet is they have left the whole world vulnerable with the same way they have infiltrated into other country’s space and privacy that everyone seeks them-selves. This can change the conventional warfare methods and move more towards hazardous and contaminated methods of warfare each trying to create uncertainty and pandemonium into others cyberspace. Stuxnet has viably shot the first bullet in another weapons contest that is prone to prompt the spread of comparative and still all the more compelling hostile cyber weaponry over
1. Why is the Stuxnet event considered to be historic?
Stuxnet has a taken the modern warfare into a new level as a whole. Stuxnet has shown that there is no such thing as "flawless" IT security. By good or bad Stuxnet is considered historic because it is the first instance that a country and its cyberspace was targeted and crippled temporarily. Stuxnet has directly dealt a lethal blow on Iran’s nuclear facilities and its oil export facilities for a while. The ever-daunting question of keeping a check on the cyberspace privacy or security has been brought up in the world stage with Stuxnet.
2. What is a danger that the creators of Stuxnet have created for other industrial counties, including the United States? What is the greatest fear created by Stuxnet?
The dilemma and peril that haunt the creators of Stuxnet is they have left the whole world vulnerable with the same way they have infiltrated into other country’s space and privacy that everyone seeks them-selves. This can change the conventional warfare methods and move more towards hazardous and contaminated methods of warfare each trying to create uncertainty and pandemonium into others cyberspace. Stuxnet has viably shot the first bullet in another weapons contest that is prone to prompt the spread of comparative and still all the more compelling hostile cyber weaponry over
References: 1, Glenny, M. (2012, June 24). A Weapon We Can’t Control. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/25/opinion/stuxnet-will-come-back-to-haunt-us.html?_r=0 2, Markoff, J., Sanger, D. E., & Broad, W. J. (2011, January 15). Stuxnet Worm Used Against Iran Was Tested in Israel. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/middleeast/16stuxnet.html 3, Terdiman, D. (2012, April 13). Stuxnet delivered to Iranian nuclear plant on thumb drive. Retrieved from http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-stuxnet-delivered-to-iranian-nuclear-plant-on-thumb-drive/