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USA Sees Iran as the Cyberattak on Saudi Arabia's Oil Company
robert38-55
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The hackers picked the one day of the year they knew they could inflict the most damage on the world’s most valuable company, Saudi Aramco.
On Aug. 15, more than 55,000 Saudi Aramco employees stayed home from work to prepare for one of Islam’s holiest nights of the year — Lailat al Qadr, or the Night of Power — celebrating the revelation of the Koran to Muhammad.
That morning, at 11:08, a person with privileged access to the Saudi state-owned oil company’s computers, unleashed a computer virus to initiate what is regarded as among the most destructive acts of computer sabotage on a company to date. The virus erased data on three-quarters of Aramco’s corporate PCs — documents, spreadsheets, e-mails, files — replacing all of it with an image of a burning American flag.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49528938/ns/world_news-the_new_york_times/?ocid=msnhp
On Aug. 15, more than 55,000 Saudi Aramco employees stayed home from work to prepare for one of Islam’s holiest nights of the year — Lailat al Qadr, or the Night of Power — celebrating the revelation of the Koran to Muhammad.
That morning, at 11:08, a person with privileged access to the Saudi state-owned oil company’s computers, unleashed a computer virus to initiate what is regarded as among the most destructive acts of computer sabotage on a company to date. The virus erased data on three-quarters of Aramco’s corporate PCs — documents, spreadsheets, e-mails, files — replacing all of it with an image of a burning American flag.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49528938/ns/world_news-the_new_york_times/?ocid=msnhp
"It is what it is":usa:
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Jerry
This doesn't bother me so much because it's been like this as long as they found oil and have come out of the tent and into town. BTW, I love Saudis, they all come to Baharain to drink and have fun.They, the people there, love Americans.
:spittingcoffee::spittingcoffee::agree: Quick and to the point Teach!!!!!!!!! You crack me up!!!!!!!!! it probably does, Teach, and probably makes for good costume jewelry too!!!
Muslims don't stick together, but Arabs generally do. Iranians are of a different ethnicity, being "Aryan" which is a type of Indo-European peoples.
Then there's the fact that Iranians are primarily of the Shiite (or Shia) sect of Islam, while Saudi Arabia and a lot of the Arab world are Sunnis. That's all based on caliphates and who took over after Mohammed, but the thing is, the two don't get along. So to assume that just because it's in the region and they share the same basic religion they would all get along is, well, wrong. There are differences, big differences to them, that lead to antagonism.