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The NY Times is reporting that unknown computer hackers who call themselves “Cutting Sword of Justice” have claimed responsibility for spreading a malicious virus into Saudi Aramco, the Saudi government-owned oil company that’s also the world’s largest, and destroying three-quarters of all its computers. The hackers used a similar virus as the government created virus, Flame.
But the Cutting Sword of Justice won’t be stopping there, they’re planning to do it again. According to their new Pastebin post below, the hackers plan to launch another cyber attack on Saudi Aramco at 5:00PM on Saturday, saying “be prepared for something you will see in your eyes and you will not be able to stop it.” Remember, this attack isn’t your typical DDoS attack of hacktivists from the past, it’s malicious software that infects and destroys computers. The last attack destroyed over 30,000 computers.
Here is what the Cutting Sword of Justice is threatening:
According to media which we rarely believe, Saudi Aramco is thinking that the 15 aug attack was done by us but with a man in the middle helping us with different kind of info and that’s the reason why the head management of Aramco is still investigating.. Garbage investigation.
What we’re going to do to prove our ability to do more? well, we don’t really need or even feel like proving anything to anyone and show them that we can, but here is a headline story:
we are going to make it, next week, once again, and you will not be able by 1 per cent to stop us.
Date: 25 august 2012
Time: 21:00 GMTThat’s will happen for two reason:
1- you’re brutal and selfish to harm any employee just for the sake of expecting.
2- we do hate, hate a lot, arrogance.Be prepared for something you will see in your eyes and you will not be able to stop it.
The Cutting Sword of Justice are a relatively unknown group of hackers who have targeted Saudi Aramco because of the Saudi government’s support for ‘oppressive measures’ in the Middle East. We’ll see what happens this Saturday. [NY Times]
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If the price of fuel goes up as a result of this because some frustrated oiks with poor language skills have nothing better to do than piss about on the internet, I am going to resurrect my posse forming skills, grab several cans of whoop-ass and track them down!
Can they direct their code to Blockbusters after they’re done? My overdue fines are getting ridiculess.
Am surprised their motives are not greener. Like big pharma, (creators of much of what we don’t need – unlike well meaning independent scientists of the past), big oil is doing as much as it can do to nothing about sustainable energy. Today, here in the UK, (not tomorrow, or a decade from now), more and more regular hard working not living on the state families are beginning to worry about how to provide 3 meals a day for their children. Why is this? Simple, the cost of energy, which is forcing up the price of everything else. No worries if you gadget is too pricey, but when a bag of produce is over £30, we have a problem. The solution to our rising energy bills is a lot simpler than corrupt politicians and special interests will have you believe: a) Install LED lighting in the home, which whilst requiring one to spend about as much as a 32″ flat panel TV, will instantly reduce the lighting energy consumption by between 1/4 and 1/7th approx. (That’s a lot!) b) Use solar power to power at least one major appliance in the home, via an overnight charged battery pack. These two investments, which will be ONE OFF purchases (LED light bulbs last up to 25 years), plus careful use of the kettle, and eliminating any little used fridges or freezers (that are on 100% of the time!) will knock 25% to 45% off a household electricity bill. I know, I have done this in our home and the electricity bills since this was done have been significantly less – despite the actual charges going up over the last few years.
The oil industry needs to invest it’s billions into German and other solar energy technology and get those panels fitted on as many household rooftops and garage forecourt rooftops as possible (check out BetterPlace.com), and instead keep their oil for powering services and industries that cannot do without oil for now.
Every little helps.
@lifemachine
What we really need to be doing is making every home in the uk (and the world!) into a Passivhaus – Solar takes 15-25 years to pay off the energy invested in making the panels. It might get better in future, but we need to deal with wasted energy by conserving it. This will reduce energy demand and therefore your energy bills.
Passivhaus is a german/austrian concept that reduces your household energy consumption by 80-90% That’s total energy consumption, not just your electricity bill, your heating bill as well. This is not done by complicated technologies but by super-insulating your home and keeping all the heat that comes from you and your tv etc in the house instead of letting it escape.
Try a google search – wikipedia is a good source of info on the subject…or the Passivhaus institute website or the Passivhaus trust website!
I’m not so sure. I think it would be more cost effective to lease land in some African countries and build solar power stations there and then connect this power to our grid.
Personally, I favour nuclear power with mandatory recycling of waste products, regardless whether its actually cheaper not to recycle.
That’s great for energy production (which we obviously need different sources of) but we really do need to reduce our demand. Even if just to save yourself some money:
How much do you pay a year on heating/hot water? The UK average is around £1500-2000k – paying that year on year over 30 years (an average mortgage length) = 50 odd grand!
Average house price = 160k
Energy bills in a Passivhaus = 1/10th of the previous = 5k.
You’ve essentially saved yourself 45k over the lifetime of your mortgage = which would bail you out of your mortgage 10years early AND save you energy and the world in one fail swoop. It’s a win win situation (except for the energy companies)
Obviously this logic can also be applied to potato businesses.