The Cybergenica Blog

What is Stuxnet? Read Immediately!

If you have been so busy with work, or immersed in the kids or school whatever and never heard of Stuxnet, it’s time you have a seat, this one gets a little frightening…

Stuxnet is a computer worm unlike any other worm. Not intended to life credit card or bank account numbers, Stuxnet instead fetches a specific control panel; A nuclear power plant type control panel.

Designed specifically to penetrate power plant security, the computer worm, identified as “W32.Stuxnet” is also known for a unique driver string left as a fingerprint, b:\myrtus\src\objfre_w2k_x86\i386\guava.pdb. Notice both fruit references?For a detailed analysis of the worm and expert profiling of  Who is Behind Stuxnet, click here.

You’re Always Being Tracked!

Whether you like it or not, or even have the courage to admit it, you are being tracked this very moment. Not only has your computer IP been intercepted and stored in a database, but your computer’s details have also been captured and stored. Anything from your operating system, your screen resolution, the type of browser you use to surf the web, and so much more!

Well equipped website owners, such as myself know quite a lot about our visitors.

Atop standard tracking software, this site uses live javascript/AJAX tracking allowing me, or appointed staff to examine the path and interest of surfers in real time. This is done 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from various monitoring locations in the United-States, Europe and Australia.

How Can Tracking Information be Used?

Let’s put it this way. A while back someone sent me hate mail for something I said about same sex unions. He did not care to sign his email however his work IP address revealed his workplace and dedicated IP which pointed right to his laptop. I guess he spent all his IQ dollars in law school, now he’s under investigation.

Everything that happens online is tracked. You included.

The good news is there are ways to surf the web anonymously (use Google Chrome, it’s free!) , to send emails securely (use Gmail, it’s safe and hides your computer’s IP address) and more importantly, there is a simple way you can shop online SAFELY without using existing credit or debit cards, or checking accounts or Paypal etc. (simply use a prepaid credit card for all purchases. Fill card securely at your nearby Walmart keeping your personal information secure.

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