Not being a techie I cannot really understand this malware stuff but if it plays havoc with Iranian nuclear ambitions – go for it!

by Caroline Glick

There’s a new cyber-weapon on the block. And it’s a doozy. Stuxnet, a malicious software, or malware, program was apparently first discovered in June.Although it has appeared in India, Pakistan and Indonesia, Iran’s industrial complexes – including its nuclear installations – are its main victims.

Stuxnet operates as a computer worm. It is inserted into a computer system through a USB port rather than over the Internet, and is therefore capable of infiltrating networks that are not connected to the Internet.

Hamid Alipour, deputy head of Iran’s Information Technology Company, told reporters Monday that the malware operated undetected in the country’s computer systems for about a year.

After it enters a network, this super-intelligent program figures out what it has penetrated and then decides whether or not to attack. The sorts of computer systems it enters are those that control critical infrastructures like power plants, refineries and other industrial targets.

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made it manifestly clear during his visit to the US last week that he is intensifying, not moderating, his offensive stance towards the US, Israel and the rest of the free world. Indeed, as IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Maj.-Gen. Benny Ganz noted last week, “Iran is involved up to its neck in every terrorist activity in the Middle East.”

As to the battle raging today in Iran’s nuclear facilities, even if the most optimistic scenario is true, and Stuxnet has crippled Iran’s nuclear installations, we must recognize that while a critical battle was won, the war is far from over.

A war ends when one side permanently breaks its enemy’s ability and will to fight it. This has clearly not happened in Iran.

Read the rest: The lessons of Stuxnet

Good news for all those hot and deadly Mossad agents such as Gail Folliard, Ivy Brinton and Anna Shaunna Clasby – it is now ok to sleep with the enemy if by doing so you can save Jewish lives

by Matthew Kalman

Female Mossad agents can relax. That classic spy tool, the honey trap, is kosher after all.

Rabbi Ari Shvat, an expert on Jewish law and modern politics, says Israeli women can sleep with the enemy in the interests of national security.

The scholar has found that it is not a breach of Jewish law for a woman to seduce terrorists and other dangerous enemies in order to gain vital intelligence to save lives.

The scholar’s views on “Illicit Sex for the Sake of National Security” were published in Tehumin, the annual journal of the Zomet Institute in the West Bank, which researches the application of Jewish law to such modern-day issues as technology, medicine, politics and security.

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Israeli women who now feel that volunteering for the Mossad would be a welcome break from their boring routine should bear in mind that sleeping with a non-Jew will bar them in the future from marrying a Cohen — a member of the Jewish priestly tribe. The wives of priests are likewise banned from using the divorce get-out since priests are also forbidden from marrying divorcees.

The Mossad’s most famous honey trap was sprung by a seductive agent named Cheryl Bentov, who posed as an American named “Cindy” to lured atom spy Mordechai Vanunu from London to Rome in 1986.

Shvat is not the first rabbi to consider spy seduction. Ancient Jewish sages argued in the Talmud more than 1,000 years ago that it was praiseworthy to have sex with a non-Jew in the pursuit of vital national interests. “Our sages of blessed memory elevate such acts of dedication to the top of the pyramid of commandments in Jewish law,” Shvat says.

Read the rest: Mossad’s seductive “honey trap” is kosher