US Launches Cyberstrikes to disable Iran’s missile systems

[BATMAN]

In other words BS.

 

[Mithridates]

we should wait and see iran's side of story but i have been worried about the fact that maybe we use western origin microprocessors for our military devices. they can put extra receiver and a program it to if it triggered the processor does not function. we should produce our own ICs or at least buy from china. however i guess armed forced by now should cleaned this bugged ICs has trump started last year that they want to supply iran's missile program with malfunctional devices. so either US is bluffing or our military needs time to get rid of exposed instruments.

 

[Hack-Hook]

we should wait and see iran's side of story but i have been worried about the fact that maybe we use western origin microprocessors for our military devices. they can put extra receiver and a program it to if it triggered the processor does not function. we should produce our own ICs or at least buy from china. however i guess armed forced by now should cleaned this bugged ICs has trump started last year that they want to supply iran's missile program with malfunctional devices. so either US is bluffing or our military needs time to get rid of exposed instruments.

We get them from Russia and those are not that different from western countries .they get the core architect from western companies and make some modification.

We had a microprocessor in 2006 but some guys decided its better to buy these critical component from foreigners than build them.
https://www.embedded.com/print/4184292

 

[raptor22]

The Observer view on heightened US tensions with Iran

Donald Trump’s White House farce once again takes the world to the brink of war

Donald Trump was repeatedly warned that his aggressive policy of escalating military and economic “maximum pressure” on Iran risked triggering war by accident. Last week, the long-predicted miscalculations duly occurred and, for a few scary hours, the world tottered on the brink. Both sides in the Gulf made mistakes, although US commanders appear more at fault. But the biggest mistake of all was made in 2016, when Americans picked a dangerous fool for president.

The sequence of events that led Trump to order airstrikes on Thursday evening, then pull back with minutes to spare, began with the shooting down by Iran of an unmanned US surveillance drone. Threats and insults had been flying back and forth for months. In the preceding week, Washington accused Tehran of attacking oil tankers – and sent more troops to squat around its borders. But it was the drone incident that brought matters to a head.

The Pentagon said the drone was flying in international airspace when hit by a missile. Iran hotly denied that, saying its sovereign airspace was being violated. The US produced maps. So, too, did Iran, which was so sure of its case that it vowed to take it to the UN security council. Yet, as the White House struggled to explain why the strikes were called off, questions emerged about its account.

The Pentagon’s images of the drone’s route initially included an incorrect description of its flight path. On Friday, US officials belatedly confirmed Iran’s assertion that a second, manned plane – a US navy P-8A Poseidon – was present during the incident, a fact they had previously failed to mention. Iran, meanwhile, published photographs of wreckage allegedly retrieved from its territorial waters.

In tweets and interviews on Friday, Trump and his backers claimed, variously, that he halted the strikes to save human life, that a local Iranian commander opened fire without authorisation, even that the on-off strikes were a cunning ploy. But a senior administration official, speaking anonymously, seems to have come closer to the truth when he said the strikes were halted due to “concerns” that the drone, or another US drone, or the navy P-8A, had indeed strayed into Iranian airspace “at some point”.

‘A senior official said the strikes were halted due to “concerns” that the drone, or another US drone, or the navy P-8A, pictured, had strayed into Iranian airspace.’ Photograph: US Navy

This degree of confusion and incompetence in US military operations should not come as a total surprise. In Afghanistan and Iraq, systemic blunders, notably by the US airforce, have cost thousands of civilian lives, as UN figures show. The US record in the Gulf is little better. In 1988, a US navy missile cruiser shot down an Iranian passenger jet, killing 290 people. The Pentagon initially denied responsibility, then claimed the plane posed a threat. In 1996, the US finally paid compensation.

What is more surprising, even shocking, is how chaotic was last week’s Oval Office decision-making process. Why on earth was Trump not informed earlier of the likely death toll? (Perhaps he was.) What did his hawkish advisers think the strikes would achieve? How did Trump plan to respond to inevitable Iranian retaliation against US and allied forces in the Gulf or in the Iraq, Syria-Israel or Saudi-Yemen theatres? Is it really true that a Fox News host, reportedly a presidential confidant, persuaded Trump to press pause?

This Carry On up the White House would be comical if it were not so deadly serious. The latest episode of Trump buffoonery was a desperately unfunny near-miss for the Middle East and global stability. It underscores the urgent need for a return to honest diplomacy, and the reaffirmation of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. It is a wake-up call for Congress, which must accelerate current efforts to curb presidential war-making powers. And it shines new light on Trump’s unique unfitness for office.

Trump says he doesn’t want a war. The way he is behaving, war may become unavoidable.

 

[WinterNights]

Another fake news for them to save face. These clowns need to learn to keep theirs mouths shut. They're just humiliating themselves more by the second.

 

[Type59]

Wont standard computer protection software like a firewall, protect against outside intrusion?

 

[WinterNights]

Wont standard computer protection software like a firewall, protect against outside intrusion?

This is fake news. These morons want us to believe these systems were connected to the internet or something and they hacked them

 

[homar]

What a pathetic response. There is probably no truth to this either, but even if there were it just makes the US appear weak. I highly doubt that Iranian engineers would open such sensitive assets to an insecure network. The lessons of Stuxnet would surely have been learned.

 

[New World]

Trump reportedly approved cyber strike to knock out Iranian computers that control missile launches
Shawn M. Carter | @shawncarterm
Published 59 Mins AgoCNBC.com

• The cyber strike came days after the Iranian forces reportedly shot down an unmanned U.S. surveillance drone.
• While the operation was said to cripple Iranian military command and control systems, it did not involve loss of life.
• In April, the United States designated the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization.

President Donald Trump reportedly approved a cyber strike that disabled Iranian computer systems, after the country shot down an unmanned U.S. surveillance drone, according to a new report in Washington Post. The systems were used to control rocket and missile launches.

The strike, carried out against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, was launched Thursday but had been in the works for some time, according to the Post, which also noted that the Pentagon proposed launching the assault earlier this month after Iran's alleged attacks on two U.S. oil tankers.

The operation was said to cripple Iranian military command and control systems but did not involve loss of life. It was the first offensive show of force since the U.S. Cyber Command, part of the U.S. Department of Defense, was elevated to a full combatant command in May.



https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cn...-cyber-hit-to-take-out-iranian-computers.html

what if one of those hackers wants to test the defense of the Abraham Lincoln and he fired iranian missiles on it.

 

[WinterNights]

what if one of those hackers wants to test the defense of the Abraham Lincoln and he fired iranian missiles on it.

This is fake news, don't buy into it.

 

[925boy]

No, it's just the US military demonstrating to Iran that it has the capability to cripple its command and control systems.

we still have NO PROOF any damaging attack took place. Just like the imaginery "150 people" Trump said would have died if there was an attack. so far, ALL BS.

 

[OldTwilight]

So from now on , we can fire missiles at USA target and claim that it was due the usa cyber attack which corrupted our chains of command ....

 

[Arminkh]

The Observer view on heightened US tensions with Iran

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Donald Trump’s White House farce once again takes the world to the brink of war

Donald Trump was repeatedly warned that his aggressive policy of escalating military and economic “maximum pressure” on Iran risked triggering war by accident. Last week, the long-predicted miscalculations duly occurred and, for a few scary hours, the world tottered on the brink. Both sides in the Gulf made mistakes, although US commanders appear more at fault. But the biggest mistake of all was made in 2016, when Americans picked a dangerous fool for president.

The sequence of events that led Trump to order airstrikes on Thursday evening, then pull back with minutes to spare, began with the shooting down by Iran of an unmanned US surveillance drone. Threats and insults had been flying back and forth for months. In the preceding week, Washington accused Tehran of attacking oil tankers – and sent more troops to squat around its borders. But it was the drone incident that brought matters to a head.

The Pentagon said the drone was flying in international airspace when hit by a missile. Iran hotly denied that, saying its sovereign airspace was being violated. The US produced maps. So, too, did Iran, which was so sure of its case that it vowed to take it to the UN security council. Yet, as the White House struggled to explain why the strikes were called off, questions emerged about its account.

The Pentagon’s images of the drone’s route initially included an incorrect description of its flight path. On Friday, US officials belatedly confirmed Iran’s assertion that a second, manned plane – a US navy P-8A Poseidon – was present during the incident, a fact they had previously failed to mention. Iran, meanwhile, published photographs of wreckage allegedly retrieved from its territorial waters.

In tweets and interviews on Friday, Trump and his backers claimed, variously, that he halted the strikes to save human life, that a local Iranian commander opened fire without authorisation, even that the on-off strikes were a cunning ploy. But a senior administration official, speaking anonymously, seems to have come closer to the truth when he said the strikes were halted due to “concerns” that the drone, or another US drone, or the navy P-8A, had indeed strayed into Iranian airspace “at some point”.

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‘A senior official said the strikes were halted due to “concerns” that the drone, or another US drone, or the navy P-8A, pictured, had strayed into Iranian airspace.’ Photograph: US Navy

This degree of confusion and incompetence in US military operations should not come as a total surprise. In Afghanistan and Iraq, systemic blunders, notably by the US airforce, have cost thousands of civilian lives, as UN figures show. The US record in the Gulf is little better. In 1988, a US navy missile cruiser shot down an Iranian passenger jet, killing 290 people. The Pentagon initially denied responsibility, then claimed the plane posed a threat. In 1996, the US finally paid compensation.

What is more surprising, even shocking, is how chaotic was last week’s Oval Office decision-making process. Why on earth was Trump not informed earlier of the likely death toll? (Perhaps he was.) What did his hawkish advisers think the strikes would achieve? How did Trump plan to respond to inevitable Iranian retaliation against US and allied forces in the Gulf or in the Iraq, Syria-Israel or Saudi-Yemen theatres? Is it really true that a Fox News host, reportedly a presidential confidant, persuaded Trump to press pause?

This Carry On up the White House would be comical if it were not so deadly serious. The latest episode of Trump buffoonery was a desperately unfunny near-miss for the Middle East and global stability. It underscores the urgent need for a return to honest diplomacy, and the reaffirmation of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. It is a wake-up call for Congress, which must accelerate current efforts to curb presidential war-making powers. And it shines new light on Trump’s unique unfitness for office.

Trump says he doesn’t want a war. The way he is behaving, war may become unavoidable.

Another justification I read is very related to the topic of this thread. They say the cyber attack was supposed to disable Iran's AD before they carry out the retaliatory attack. However it failed and they called off the attack

 

[raptor22]

Another justification I read is very related to the topic of this thread. They say the cyber attack was supposed to disable Iran's AD before they carry out the retaliatory attack. However it failed and they called off the attack

I've said it more than a month ago & still I think most of tensions are happening due to deal of century .. it doesn't make that much sense when I hear POTUS says I just don't want to see Iranian nuke, where is Iranian nuke?where is the JCPOA? nuke could be considered as more propagandist material to fool masses but deep down the only thing that matters is security of israel ... so be it nuke, missile or regional power all are seen from israel security point of view by american ...so pressures, lies, propaganda, cyber attack, 1000s troops, AC on Iran are there to make sure it is gonna happen while Iran is busy with sanctions & more can't pull the plug...
Maybe I am wrong..

 

[925boy]

At best, US did a succesful cyberattack on Iran which caused some economic damage. How much is this economic damage going to cost Iran to fix? i suspect low to mid $xx(millions). I'm worried the image damage US took from backing down is worth alot more than that. Sadly, I also believe these "games" have only started.