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Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon

Ralph Langner · TED

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When first discovered in 2010, the Stuxnet computer worm posed a baffling puzzle. Beyond its sophistication loomed a more troubling mystery: its purpose. Ralph Langner and team helped crack the code that revealed this digital warhead's final target. In a fascinating look inside cyber-forensics, he explains how -- and makes a bold (and, it turns out, correct) guess at its shocking origins.

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Institution
TED
Department
TED2011
Speaker
Ralph Langner
Year
2011
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Physics, Computer science, Earth and environment, Society and politics
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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