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Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon

TED · 323.1K views · 2011-03-29 · 10:41

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Overview

In an 11-minute TED talk, Ralph Langner explains how his team reverse-engineered the Stuxnet worm and worked out that it targeted industrial control systems, with a covert state origin. It is a compact look at cyber-forensics.

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HN points people to it as the short, accessible account of how Stuxnet was dissected, usually when Stuxnet or state-sponsored malware comes up.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2011–2021

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What people said

vecinu · 2012-05 · Recommendation

I assume we are going to see a complicated and interesting dissection a la Stuxnet? The Stuxnet TED talk [0] was really interesting, I ended up giving a talk to my department at work afterwards. [0] - [VIDEO]

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phlux · 2011-06 · Recommendation

Watch these in this order: [LINK] - brief overview great animation [VIDEO] - ted talk on stux [LINK] detailed analysis of stuxnet the last one is long and Bruce appears to be an arrogant prick, but it is clear - cyber war has been here for a while.

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phlux · 2011-06 · Recommendation

PSY-OP MOTHERFUCKER, CAN YOU HACK IT?! This is NOT script kiddies going at it, this is bio-stux.... See the following: Watch these in this order: [LINK] - brief overview great animation [VIDEO] - ted talk on stux [LINK] . detailed analysis of stuxnet the last one is long and Bruce appears to be an arrogant prick, but it is clear - cyber war has been here for a while. --- As I have mentioned, cyber war is here - and the legislation is lacking in its awareness - but becuase we have incompetant douches in charge of tech legislation, we will have physical war used as a metaphor to cyber warfare and thus have draconian influences from physical imprisonment being applied to digital situations. Utterly broken.

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