Foreign Policy magazine's blog, Passport, reports a new use by US forces of heavy metal music as an implement of psychological pressure, from their friend Mikko Hyppönen, a Finnish security expert, who received an email from an anonymous Iranian nuclear scientist:
I am writing you to inform you that our nuclear program has once again been
compromised and attacked by a new worm with exploits which have shut down our
automation network at Natanz and another facility Fordo near Qom.
According
to the email our cyber experts sent to our teams, they believe a hacker tool
Metasploit was used. The hackers had access to our VPN. The automation network
and Siemens hardware were
attacked and shut down. I only know very little about these cyber issues as I
am scientist not a computer expert.
There
was also some music playing randomly on several of the workstations during the
middle of the night with the volume maxed out. I believe it was playing
'Thunderstruck' by AC/DC.
A lot of people think these stories are kind of amusing, every time they come out, which is surprisingly often. I don't exactly; used in combat, the music may not be so evil, although [jump]
