The Israel-Hamas War

Check out the very well made documentary "Zero Days" about Stuxnet. 

Stuxnet was a top top top secret venture by the US and Israel that introduced malware into Iran's nuclear facilities and successfully shut down its centrifuges. No war. No diplomatic negotiating. Just a diabolically successful cyber-attack that looked like a software glitch. Israel was so thrilled it launched a second cyber-attack against the wishes of the U.S., at which point the trail slowly unraveled and Stuxnet was exposed. To this day, no U.S. official is allowed to use the word Stuxnet or address the case. 

There are a lot of amazing technological weapons, either in use or at our disposal. It's unclear whether we would ever know. Stuxnet was exposed when Iran had the U.S. software vendors come in to troubleshoot the problem with the systems they (legally) sold them. Of course our software vendors had never been briefed or warned about the sabotage. 

 
deedsker said:
I am guessing they know how to overheat the board or capacitor to get something like that. The not getting tracked or caught onto is the impressive part.
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I read somewhere that these are designed with an exploding function as a security feature but are supposed to beep for a few minutes before they do, and the hack was to trigger it without the warning beeps.

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
Check out the very well made documentary "Zero Days" about Stuxnet. 

Stuxnet was a top top top secret venture by the US and Israel that introduced malware into Iran's nuclear facilities and successfully shut down its centrifuges. No war. No diplomatic negotiating. Just a diabolically successful cyber-attack that looked like a software glitch. Israel was so thrilled it launched a second cyber-attack against the wishes of the U.S., at which point the trail slowly unraveled and Stuxnet was exposed. To this day, no U.S. official is allowed to use the word Stuxnet or address the case. 

There are a lot of amazing technological weapons, either in use or at our disposal. It's unclear whether we would ever know. Stuxnet was exposed when Iran had the U.S. software vendors come in to troubleshoot the problem with the systems they (legally) sold them. Of course our software vendors had never been briefed or warned about the sabotage. 
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If you're smart enough and someone is dumb enough you can do whatever you want with their IT and intellectual property. You can do the basics of phissing scams to be incognito and gain access, or brut force with password attempts. It only takes one idiot clicking on a phishing link to f#&% everybody. We've had quite a few suppliers held ransom for hundreds of millions over the last few years like this.

For cellphones and pagers you just need to get access to the network they're on and chances are they won't be too encrypted. From there it's just basic programming. Making commands to overheat the processor/battery, turn off sound, turn on mics, or whatever you want.

 
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Warning. Contains gore.

This is one of the most successful intelligence operations in terms of scope and success in Israeli history. 





From the tweet:

This is a developing story, and all information is preliminary, with numbers and info subject to change. Roughly an hour ago, Hezbollah’s encrypted pager devices began simultaneously, exploding across Lebanon, including in Damascus. Initial reports from Lebanon estimate around 1,000+ casualties so far. Hezbollah has instructed all its militants to immediately discard their pagers, calling this the most significant security breach they’ve ever encountered. Iran's Mehr news agency reports that Mojtaba Amani, Iran's ambassador to Lebanon, was injured when a pager exploded.

 
knapplc said:
Warning. Contains gore.

This is one of the most successful intelligence operations in terms of scope and success in Israeli history. 





From the tweet:

This is a developing story, and all information is preliminary, with numbers and info subject to change. Roughly an hour ago, Hezbollah’s encrypted pager devices began simultaneously, exploding across Lebanon, including in Damascus. Initial reports from Lebanon estimate around 1,000+ casualties so far. Hezbollah has instructed all its militants to immediately discard their pagers, calling this the most significant security breach they’ve ever encountered. Iran's Mehr news agency reports that Mojtaba Amani, Iran's ambassador to Lebanon, was injured when a pager exploded.
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Israel Security people.  Take a chair


 
Hey, where are all those college protesters?  Did they all just stop because they did not actually give a s#!t, just like I said?

Maybe someone should page them?

But remember that cause was near and dear to them and they were never going to stop...until summer break hit.  I know someone who also said that.

 
Latest estimate on people injured in the pager attack is 3,900. 500 critically injured. Last I saw, eight confirmed deaths.

I've also read that this is a precursor to Israel sweep south Lebanon in a pre-emptive strike before Hezbollah potentially attacks Israel.

The pager plan is to take out as many commanding officers as possible and leave the ground troops to lead themselves during Israel's attack.

 
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