Norovirus?

This sounds like Norovirus to me (do the Americans call it stomach flu?)

 

Vulnerable?

Siemens is launching an iPad  controlled gizmo for managing your home appliances.  Let’s hope that it is not vulnerable to Stuxnet, being a Siemens product!

Measles on the rise in Europe

 

Measles on the rise in Europe

Measles has the capacity to be apocalyptic and this item is about Measles in Europe, rather than somewhere else unimportant.

We may well be reaping the whirlwind of not vaccinating  children.  It used to be said that no junior doctor had ever seen a case of measles.  Well they will soon.  Why is it that we never learn the lessons of the past provided at terrible cost?

Malware Will Change the Face of Warfare | LiveScience

LiveScience (Malware Will Change the Face of Warfare | LiveScience) would appear to be supporting the thesis, discussed on this blog, that cyber war will significantly change the very nature of war itself.
Watch this space!

BBC News - Stuxnet worm hits Iran nuclear plant staff computers

This is an item - BBC News - Stuxnet worm hits Iran nuclear plant staff computers - about a virus that has infected Iran’s nuclear reactor that is designed to destroy it by attacking the Siemens plant operating software.   It is suggested that the attack is the work of a nation state.
Could this be the start of a new type of warfare, already much heralded but yet to be initiated?
Clausewitz reminds us that the aim of war is to disarm the enemy i.e. to defeat the enemy’s ability to wage war.
Sun Tzu tells us that the supreme act of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
What appears to have happened relates to both dictums with dramatic resonance.
But we shouldn’t ditch our conventional weapons quite yet.