# Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon

- 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](https://www.ted.com/talks/ralph_langner_cracking_stuxnet_a_21st_century_cyber_weapon)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/ralph_langner_cracking_stuxnet_a_21st_century_cyber_weapon/842f516abd6f), 11 min (TED's player)