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Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers

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Bernstein, Paula (November 19, 1999). "Sci-Fi doing Dune mini". Variety. Archived from the original on March 8, 2021 . Retrieved February 21, 2019. Told with the fast-paced style of a thriller, this book is highly recommended for all fans of international intrigue and cyberwarfare. An exceptional account.” I really wanted this book to be about human stories,” Greenberg told CyberScoop. “A more human book about cyberwar than had ever been written before.”

Cyberwar Armageddon hasn't happened yet, but it's coming, according to this disturbing but convincing journalistic chronicle. Nominees/Winners (Outstanding Special Visual Effects)". National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on April 19, 2021 . Retrieved February 1, 2019. Brian Herbert (2003). Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert. Macmillan. ISBN 9781429958448.

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Unpublished interview with Frank Herbert and Professor Willis E. McNelly". February 3, 1969. Archived from the original on February 13, 2002 . Retrieved March 21, 2019– via sinanvural.com. Insofar as the sandworm was essential to the creation of the spice melange, on a macro scale the sandworm had an enormous impact on humanity. VFX production supervisor Paul Lambert explained, "We spent more time working out the animation around the worm than the worm itself [with its large mouth and teeth]. You see the destruction that it creates. We spent time trying to find references of how sand can be displaced so we could copy that." [41] Video games [ edit ] Sandworms are giant creatures found only on the desert planet Arrakis. They are worshipped as agents of God by the Fremen, who consider their actions a form of divine intervention. [6] [11] The Fremen also refer to the sandworms as "Makers" or "Shai-Hulud". But even more important than the contents of that how-to file was the language it was written in: Russian.

The companies that run such equipment, particularly the electric utilities that serve as the most fundamental layer on which the rest of the industrialized world is built, constantly offer the public assurances that they have a strict “air gap” between their normal I.T. network and their industrial control network. But in a disturbing fraction of cases, those industrial control systems still maintain thin connections to the rest of their systems—or even the public internet—allowing engineers to access them remotely, for instance, or update their software. The sandtrout ... was introduced here from some other place. This was a wet planet then. They proliferated beyond the capability of existing ecosystems to deal with them. Sandtrout encysted the available free water, made this a desert planet ... and they did it to survive. In a planet sufficiently dry, they could move to their sandworm phase. [18] Rawlings, Tomas (March 13, 2018). " Dune II and the three rules of a good licensed game". GamesIndustry.biz. Archived from the original on August 10, 2020 . Retrieved May 23, 2020. Hechtel, Sibylle (2008). "The Biology of the Sandworm". In Grazier, Kevin R. (ed.). The Science of Dune: An Unauthorized Exploration into the Real Science Behind Frank Herbert's Fictional Universe. Psychology of Popular Culture. Dallas, TX: BenBella Books. pp. 29–47. ISBN 978-1-933771-28-1.

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Sandworm is much more than a true-life techno-thriller. It's a tour through a realm that is both invisible and critical to the daily lives of every person alive in the 21st century." A sandworm's internal workings resembled that of a massive blast furnace, producing intense heat and flames. This in turn provided the environmental link of supplying oxygen to the nearly plantless Arrakis. The mouth was positioned at the forward end of the creature and could easily consume gigantic objects such as spice harvesters.

This is what cyberwar looks like: an invisible force capable of striking out from an unknown origin to sabotage, on a massive scale, the technologies that underpin civilization. Kynes' "water stealers" die "by the millions in each spice blow" and may be killed by even a "five-degree change in temperature". [16] He notes that "the few survivors entered a semidormant cyst-hibernation to emerge in six years as small (about three meters long) sandworms". [16] A small number of these then emerge into maturity as giant sandworms, to whom water is poisonous. [11] [12] [16] A "stunted worm" is a "primitive form ... that reaches a length of only about nine meters". Their drowning by the Fremen makes them expel the awareness-spectrum narcotic known as the Water of Life. [16] On June 27, 2017, something strange and terrible began to ripple out across the infrastructure of the world. Herbert, Frank (July 1980). " Dune Genesis". Omni. Archived from the original on January 7, 2012 . Retrieved March 21, 2019– via FrankHerbert.org.After six weeks of analysis, iSight was ready to go public with its findings: It had discovered what appeared to be a vast, highly sophisticated espionage campaign with every indication of being a Russian government operation targeting NATO and Ukraine. The 2000 Sci Fi Channel miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune, and the 2003 sequel miniseries Frank Herbert's Children of Dune, employed computer-generated visual effects to create sandworms onscreen, [33] under the guidance of special effects supervisor Ernest Farino. [34] [35] The sandtrout that survived this event would then coalesce and complete the metamorphosis into a young sandworm. Evans, Clay (March 14, 2008). "Review: Exploring Frank Herbert's 'Duniverse' ". Archived from the original on March 19, 2008 . Retrieved March 19, 2008– via DailyCamera.com.

In the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (1999–2004), the Tleilaxu initiate Project Amal, an early attempt to create synthetic melange to eliminate dependence upon Arrakis. They are fundamentally unaware, however, that melange production is part of the sandworm lifecycle, and the project is an abysmal failure. Greenberg sketches the evolution of a wholly new discipline in the surprisingly lively real-life police procedural [that] deftly teases out technical detail without slowing the narrative." As the Fremen discovered, this armor, while all but impenetrable, could be exploited. By prying open the edges of one or more of the scales, the integrity of the armor would be compromised; sand was now free to enter into the sandworms softer insides, causing intense irritation for the sandworm. The beast would then roll itself until the opened scale was at the highest point from the desert floor, thus minimizing the amount of sand that could enter. Dune 2000 for Windows (1998)". MobyGames. Archived from the original on May 16, 2020 . Retrieved May 23, 2020.

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The approach of a sandworm towards its breach-point was often indicated by the dry lightning that frequently occurred in the area; a result of static electricity being discharged into positively-charged air. Tim O'Reilly, ed. (1987). The Maker of Dune: Thoughts of a Science Fiction Master. Berkley Books. ISBN 0425097854. Spellbinding.... Written with great enthusiasm and with an ear for the dramatic turn of phrase...this is the kind of book that yanks the reader’s eyes wide open.... Lively, highly relevant, and more than a little scary.”

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