…given the amount of detailed analysis that’s already available (and I mean substantial blocks of reverse-engineered code, not high-level analysis and code snippets and descriptions), I’m not sure that anyone with malicious intent and a smidgen of technical skill would need the original code…

…an article suggests that “Stuxnet was developed to improve the quality of enriched uranium, so that it no longer can be used for the production of atomic bombs.” It’s an interesting theory, and I’m certainly not going to say it’s wrong…

…Eric Chien … tells us that “Stuxnet requires the industrial control system to have frequency converter drives from at least one of two specific vendors…”

…the “Stuxnet under the microscope” has been updated.today on the white papers page: details as following…

Tip of the hat to Bruce Dang and Dave Aitel for flagging an inaccuracy in ESET's Stuxnet report. And, indirectly, leading us to a blip in some PoC code which now looks even more interesting. (But that isn't going public yet.) The paper has been updated to remove the offending item. David Harley CITP FBCS

The Stuxnet analysis “Stuxnet under the Microscope” we published a few weeks ago has been updated…

Google translate is pretty cool, but they are missing a language. You can translate from Haitian Creole to Yiddish and from Galacian to Maltese, but you can’t translate from geekspeak to anything a regular person understands. The good part about this for me is that I have a job trying to do just that! David

…we also indicated in that paper that there are two Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerabilities that we chose not to describe while patches were pending. One of these has now been patched, so we’re now able to publish some of the information we have on it. (When the other vulnerability has been patched, we plan to update the Stuxnet paper with information on both issues.)

This is an item you may not have seen amid all the speculation about Stuxnet, Iran and Israel.

The short answer is the media wants a cyberwar. Cyberwar is a dark, sexy, mysterious headline that sells and so each time something nefarious happens on the internet that potentially involves two or more countries, security experts are besieged with the question “Is this cyberwar”? Let’s look back to the 1989 book by Clifford Stoll