IRANIAN STUXNET WORM FILE HAS AN INTERESTING NAME,
AND SOME INTERESTING CODE FILES IMBEDDED INSIDE IT
CORRELATION OF FILES COULD BE A HACKER’S PLEASURE,
WHICH MANY USE TO MANIFEST HOW CLEVER THEY ARE
IN ABILITY TO CONFUSE AND IMPRESS OTHER HACKERS!
HEBREW & PERSIAN NAMES ASSOCIATED WITH ESTHER,
MINGLED WITH HER MAIDEN MAME AND SUCCOT FRUIT!
October 1, 2010
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
We had fantastic electronic intercept when I retired from the National Security Agency in 1971, but it is out of this universe some 39 years later. Since I was tied in with electronic intercept, code breaking computers, and synoptic analysis,
I find too many coincidences of Hebrew words with Persian derivations, the timing of a worm attack with Jewish Feasts, and the association of Esther, who prevented a complete destruction of Israel in Persian Captivity, for all this to be coincidence.
Israel now believes it is facing complete destruction if Iran develops a deliverable nuclear bomb and is determined to stop them.
The English word Esther is the Hebrew word [‘Ecter] which is of Persian derivation but Esther’s maiden name was Hadassah, meaning Myrtle, so that the word Myrtus, embedded in the worm’s files, may well be an illusion to Esther. It is also worthy of note that Guava fruit is from the Myrtus family of fruits, and that one of the code modules is identified as Guava.
Guava has religious significance because it is eaten at Succot (The Feast of Tabernacles) when the Jews live in their Succahs and eat their meals there.
Begin Excerpt from Middle East Online
NY Times: Stuxnet file hints at Israeli link
Computer worm includes reference to Book of Esther, the Old Testament story in which Jews pre-empt Persian plot to destroy them.
WASHINGTON – The Stuxnet worm attacking computers in Iran includes a reference to the Book of Esther, the Old Testament story in which the Jews pre-empt a Persian plot to destroy them, and is a possible clue of Israeli involvement, The New York Times reported Thursday.
A file inside the Stuxnet code is named “Myrtus,” an allusion to the Hebrew word for Esther, and is a possible Israeli calling card or, perhaps, a “red herring” designed to throw investigators off the track, the Times said.
According to security software experts and analysts, Stuxnet may have been designed to target Iran’s nuclear facilities and suspicions have fallen on Israel and the United States.
Iran said this week that Stuxnet is mutating and wreaking havoc on computerized industrial equipment there but denied the Islamic republic’s first nuclear plant at Bushehr was among the facilities penetrated.
Stuxnet specifically attacks Siemens supervisory control and data acquisition, or SCADA, systems commonly used to manage water supplies, oil rigs, power plants and other industrial facilities.
The self-replicating malware has also been found lurking on Siemens systems in India, Indonesia and Pakistan, but the heaviest infiltration appears to be in Iran, according to researchers.
No one has claimed credit for Stuxnet and a top US cyber security official said last week that the United States does not know who is behind it or its purpose.
The Times noted that there is no consensus among security experts about who may be behind Stuxnet but said “there are many reasons to suspect Israel’s involvement.”
Israel has poured huge resources into Unit 8200, its secretive cyberwar operation, and Stuxnet may be a “clear warning in a mounting technological and psychological battle” with Iran over its nuclear program, the newspaper said.
The Times said Ralph Langner, a German computer security consultant, was the first to note that “Myrtus” is an allusion to the Hebrew word for Esther.
Shai Blitzblau, head of the computer warfare laboratory at Maglan, an Israeli company specializing in information security, told the Times he was “convinced that Israel had nothing to do with Stuxnet.”
“We did a complete simulation of it and we sliced the code to its deepest level,” he said. “We have studied its protocols and functionality.
Our two main suspects for this are high-level industrial espionage against Siemens and a kind of academic experiment.”
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