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

[DoNotLaughAtMe]

Stuxnet vs Avast :D

[InsurrectionProject]

@DoNotLaughAtMe People can write scripts to break through Avast.

[plopsywhopsy]

wouldnt it be funny if it was designed by an overweight pimpled face teenager sucking on cheese n redbull screaming n fist pumping watching this

[leofzky]

No one else is stunned by the fact they USE WINDOWS IN A NUCLEAR FACILITY? -_-

[q41n]

so Israel is killing people in iran and people think iran shouldn't have bombs

[MrValkemade]

Maybe Iran needs to start using Macs.

[Arkandji]

66.666. Holy SHAT.

[Nubiex7]

I'm getting the feeling that Israel and the US are going to send Iran another "gift" soon :)

[flavorysoup]

I just thought, but could't the Iranian's have made the virus? Think of it, if they made a virus and infected their own systems with it, that gave them a free card to create one of the largest group of hackers in the world to counter it. It's a bit if a stretch, but I'd just like to put the idea out. Anything's possible.

[SlackerSlayer]

@flavorysoup One problem with that idea, Iran has not attacked anyone (other than defending against Saddam) in over 100 years. So who would want you to think that,,, of course the biggest parasite of the world, on the African continent.

[xTonyxMaddenx]

@flavorysoup Sorry but the Iranians are all smoke and no fire like a ll dictatorships. When they got that US drone the claimed within a week or something they had reverse enginered it and were ready to copy and even improve it. ROFL. That isn't even possible in that length of time!

[flavorysoup]

@xTonyxMaddenx Most likely it isn't possible, but you never know. We don't know what they have over there. One thing we do know is they used their hackers to capture the drone which is pretty impressive.

[blamedorger]

@flavorysoup I don't know squat about computers. Could someone simplify stuxnet for me by answering one question?-----did stuxnet successfully disable Irans nuke factories?

[deassain]

@blamedorger no.

[q41n]

@xTonyxMaddenx

they hacked it well it was in the air then they landed it, iran is years ahead of america

[s25007]

Binary solo!

[LordFabs]

"Cyber superpower is the united states"?

[tobyn123]

im wet.

[PoseidonHermes]

Haha

IRAN got their revenge by hacking the commodo and diginotar certificates

Cyber war, my foot, japan should ask the US to tell them why stuxnet may have affected their nuclear reactor in fukushima !!!!

us to blame

[FinalLugiaGuardian]

@PoseidonHermes Japan's Nuclear Plants safety measures were destroyed by both  the Tsunami and Earthquake. Unlike your idea, we actually have something called video evidence of this. Go troll somewhere else.

[SlackerSlayer]

@PoseidonHermes But it is israeli security at the Fukishima plant,,, and the center of "security" at every terrorist target in the past decade.

Now if you found out that Bob was working at all these places where serious disasters happen, would you keep Bob as your employee?

[ISENTRY]

Cyber fear mongering (a new boogie-man) great!

MOSSAD is involved but Israel is most likely not?? WTFridge?

Oh shit I think I just heard my hard drive sounds like it is getting ready to exp........

[NoShit12]

1:37 - 1:41 WTF ???

[SlackerSlayer]

@NoShit12 What confuses you about that part?

[NoShit12]

DeleteFile('C:\Windows\System3­2\HAL.dll') <--- The best virus of 2011....

[NoShit12]

"Thank you, for scaring the daylight out of us..." LMFAO IM DYING HERE !!!!

10:28

[NoShit12]

"They probably even knew their shoe size" ROFL!!! Killed me XD !!!

3:15

[MoodyEdghaim]

@Tresto Don't you just love idiots? Portugal part of Spain? Hahahahhahahahahahhahaha

[thatweirdkid1997]

@MoodyEdghaim buy a map asshole

[harperadam]

@icesterftl Did you miss the part where he mentioned how the Stuxnet virus could be manipulated into a worm so it could then be spread without physically plugging in a USB drive to deliver the virus. Think about it. I canno't wait until something big happens with this. The 5th of November!

[infanzer]

Talking about one of the most sophisticated and potentially dangerous computer viruses ever created, and they're using slides that look like they were made using Windows 95 Power Point, by a grade-school student.

[artifactingreality]

@infanzer its not the slides, its how you use them. but come to think of it he didnt use them very well either. :)

[TheAppifier]

@infanzer Heh. It's possible there has *never* been a good programmer or analyst who can design graphics worth a damn, you know. :)

[Ragouel1991]

@TheAppifier If there was, he'd be called an animator and flip burgers on McDonalds.

[LangnerRalph]

@infanzer Well given that I was invited to speak at TED only one week before the event I think the slides are pretty cool.

[sabb0ur]

9:20 "Unfortunately, the biggest number of targets is not in the Middle East." WTF?

[prh198]

666 likes? uh oh.

[mckoyjon]

All part of Apple's grand plan ... soon the world will be all Macs and Iphones

[chrismeister15]

They should just use a Mac.

[Vlaxiti]

@chrismeister15 not true , mac is already getting prepared for virus. mac software aint alien technology.

[sharpezor]

"it plays prerecorded video like in the movies" my god this thing is a monster

[alexandervorn]

Very scary.

[popaddict]

Anyone else find it difficult to understand because of the way he's speaking :S

[InspectorAtlas]

meh everyone loves ireland we coo'

[thuff420]

FORTUNATELY, it is in the hands of the U.S. ... UNFORTUNATELY they are fucking idiots who control sheeple and will do what they please. And since releasing this "Stuxnet" people are able to pick it apart and use it as they will being that is an OPEN-SOURCE virus. This stuff scares me... -_- Peace n Love people

[shiftykilla]

Fuck yeah! Australia is target rich!

[OuranianCyclops]

so they are making us believe that a random person was worried about Natanz possible nukes so he made stuxnet to shut em down?

[PandAgroupinc]

@OuranianCyclops They believe it took a team of 30 people or above at the least, potentially sponsored by a world power that spent months getting the necessary information in order to pull it off. One could say that Stuxnet is the first 'real' cyber weapon, doing things like this on such a scale.

[ThanksIDidntKnow]

it is not fortunate at all..

[coachdsimpson]

viruses are evolving everyday , it doesn't matter who made it, the code is available to everyone now, they need to prepare for it and scan their databases hourly to make sure it doesn't happen again. Also they need to make sure to limit the use of external hard drives and run test to find any zero-days.

[AnthMizz]

@SirTubelot

If the US is behind these attacks, they would obviously not, most likely, attack their allies or their own country. I could really only see the people against the US being attacked by this program. IF it were to actually stay in the hands of the US government. But obviously that hasn't happened, so now it could be used to attack anyone you could say.

[kickracistarse]

The Stuxnet virus was discovered at the Fukushima plants 3 months before the tsunami hit Japan and obviously prevented the reactor fail safe systems being deployed when the tsunami hit.

Stuxnet is a cyber WMD with devastating power and now the source code is freely available all over the net for anyone to use and for any purpose they desire. Hopefully karma will prevail and Israel and the USA will be the first countries to suffer nuclear catastrophe at the hands of the virus they created.

[gexman31]

this is one of my favorite ted talks

[NLS87]

IRAN: Talk to the Steve and get a Mac!

[FrankfurtamMainxxl]

@NLS87 a Mac wouldn´t be able to run a power plant....and stuxnet is way to powerfull, it would kill any shitty apple product

[gabrieldov]

By uncovering this to the public and making the virus development "open-source" is the real threat to the world. Not the virus itself, but the humans behind it.

If this western money digger wasn't there to uncover the virus for the Iranian, their project was going to fail and they would never know why. Now we must pray for them not to attack our banks and other digital structures with this tech.

After stuxnet detection, the Iranian started to gather hackers for their Islamic revolution.

[alicanvin]

Iran should of used a Mac

[qgshadow]

@alicanvin lol macs are less safe than windows, hackers dont bother exploiting the holes, because no business use that shit

[NLS87]

@qgshadow it's untrue.

[qgshadow]

@NLS87 Its true use google, at hacking conventions every year, they have a competion at how fast hackers can hack macs, and they hack it in 10mins or less everytime, they find big holes every time. but no one cares about macs.

[NLS87]

@qgshadow And they may take 10 mins, but it takes AGES to find the exploitable area. And it's always something obscure. not something you can exploit just plugging an USB device, like Windows. All systems are vulnerable and if nobody cares about mac's, then it's their fault using windows. Linux machines are a whole different story, because in corporate environments LINUX isn't good enough for workstation use (lack of commercial applications) and in servers the physical barrier is stronger.

[Tretso]

I live in Portugal, no one gives a shit about us yaaaaaay

[Nuerotronic]

@Tretso Thumbs up! lol.. but does that mean if a nuke accidently wipes out Portugal no one will care either?

[Tretso]

@Nuerotronic Pretty damn much.

[dmrtdmrt]

@Tretso I do, but I'm from Holland so it doesn't count ;) Just came back from Cascais ! Loved it.

[Tretso]

@dmrtdmrt Cool, how much money did you spend? :D

[dmrtdmrt]

@Tretso About 3k so nothing that will fix the economy anytime soon ;)

[JesuitsUSA]

@Tretso,

Not true Tretso... we all care about Portugal. :)

.

Peace,

Fr. Robert

[ROKDawgROK]

@Tretso - DUDE! YOU JUST MADE MY DAY LMAOROTFPMP!

[EATshitanddrinkbleac]

@Tretso

LMAO ISNT THAT PART OF SPAIN

[Tretso]

@EATshitanddrinkbleac 0/10

[sacredgeometry]

@Tretso Thats not true! I love portugal :)

[omfg322]

@Tretso same here in canada XD

[eXoudOne]

@Tretso Estamos safos :P xD

[Justin9Noble]

Audience guy @ :24 covers his face/ Why? Who is he? #WTF

[EXternalLife9]

lol hacking is now an act of war so all the infected country can launch an attc ??

[duppymaker]

hmm youd think nuclear power plants might just... i dont know, maybe turn off there routers? :)

im sure they could use some form of ethernet instead =\

[sqbsbear]

@duppymaker the virus was already on the controllers which are directly hooked up to the production equipment, there's no hope at that point.

[duppymaker]

@sqbsbear oh im sure, im just saying what was the need for internet access in the first place

[caccaculomerdapipi]

lol "Denial Of Nuke"

[bigbrother1994]

lets see, if iran could isolate the virus and then let it loose on the net.. the 1st country that shows their ability to defend against it, then must be the country of origin. what do u fink??

[leparditas]

those motherfuckers destroyed toyota's brakes ... lol

[Undeterminable]

The weapon of course is the informed western world user and the internet?

[Undeterminable]

Haha! More weapons to use against users. Safety programs that can shut down users under the guise of a terrorist attack? Haha. If this program/weapon was so effective it would have already cause a melt down or attack. It looks like they have found a program to match what type of weapon they would be using against others.

[zigmar7]

Well, those guys worked hard to help a mad religious dictator to get a nuclear weapon. Sure they done they work well, but are they proud and can sleep happily at night?

[anunnaki2006]

This video may interest you with Stuxnet; watch?v=PuAJ9ijAnFE

[RadioFlyffer]

Like others have already mentioned, the US is, at this point, controlled by Jews (not necessarily Israeli Jews, either...but definitely the Bankster Jews in NY and the City of London). So, basically the Jewish mafia network gets to cause trouble all over the world and the people of the US get blamed for it!

Gotta love those imbecilic Christians!

PS...an Israeli security company (Magna BSP) was in charge of security at Fukushima power plant during the disaster.

[COOH28]

Another German dickhead who know nothing about what he's talking about.

[bigbrother1994]

@COOH28 what part of what he said was wrong exactly? and can u correct his mistake? thanx.

[86kinky86]

this guy is a murderer. Stuxnet has infected Fukushima power plant and is probably the reason why all the backup systems failed.

[OneNation2525]

BUT Ralph Langner: America is a JEWISH aka ISRAELI RUN Country and this Jewish RUN Fiasco NEEDS STOP!!!

[herauthon]

Something McAfee warned about in the 80ies - but these are triplehybrid codes

[z0nt21]

Say, could China be the originator of STUXNet? Japan has been effectively eliminated from the world stage for the next few decades, once more! #LOL

[Ofir84]

@z0nt21

eliminated for decades?

does it hurt being this stupid?

also whats so funny about that? you think people dying is funny?

[nobodysharp]

well just wait the dhs will try to implement control over the internet because of things like this, that we started

1984 is not an instruction manual

[z0nt21]

From Fukushima-1 circulation pumps & control rod servos,

with love. :-)

[HappyRogueStatus]

@xXxRadicalDreamerxXx you don't know what you're talking about, unfortunately. Of course he's not saying a nuclear Iran is not a threat. He's merely outlining the consequences of developing such a virus, tard

[xXxRadicalDreamerxXx]

So the real danger is the virus and not a fanatic country like Iran with nuclear weapons?

You're a fucking Nazi.

[Mordicay1849]

@xXxRadicalDreamerxXx

Just because he talks about the virus that was used to disable the nuclear plant doesn't mean he doesn't support what it was used for...

[xXxRadicalDreamerxXx]

@Mordicay1849 Sound to me like he's diverting the blame towards the developers of the virus rather then countries led by mad dictators who develop nuclear weapons.

That's IMO anyway.

[gutsendwondvocht]

@xXxRadicalDreamerxXx

A country like Iran with nuclear weapons and now this virus.

produce one weapon of mass destruction and get one computer virus of mass destruction for free

[vinsonhan21]

Get a Mac



[mabo612]

come america an isreal germany, you can steal an pick on a bunch of armless powerless people in palastine, lebanon. but cant defeand your self from iran,,,punks

[Ofir84]

@mabo612

at least you defended yourself against learning how to spell

[mabo612]

@Ofir84 why dont you use Stuxnet to hack on my computer and type for me, since thats what yall americans are good at

[Wormtail81]

I like how Canada is part of the United States.

[leonidasx666]

Here's something for everyone to think about:

What if this guy was Iranian and did the same thing to a US facility?

[bigcheesy95]

You know this is one of the villains in a james bond movie

[IoDecay]

this man is horrible at storytelling lol

[srvvlhm]

That is one smart man. 

[SlackerSlayer]

@dans540i Hey zidiot, no Iranian will be firing the first shot. Why is it jews use their religion when it fits, but ignore it when it comes the the prophecies related to the end of their exile from israel? There has been none of those prophecies fulfilled,,, but they have pretended one was in ww2.

[q41n]

@SlackerSlayer

they are not jews, they are Zionists

they are nazi's pretending to be jews 

[SlackerSlayer]

@q41n I don't see many "jews" speaking up about the zionnazis actions. There are a handful compared to the ocean of support for their lies.

Jew = claims to believe on the torah, yet ignore the fact that none of their exile ending prophecies have never happened, with the fakers exception of the holocaust-TM/Lies. If they read their books, they would notice just one method of death to fit that event, burned. Any support by any jew or other, for anything called israel, are the ones I refer to.

[SlackerSlayer]

@dans540i Maybe they are trying to be good jews since the "israeli" is not.

[webs87]

Yeah coulda been Stuxnet...coulda been the huge tsunami..

[Rassengan9966]

the cyberwar has started............iran cyber army in action

[gulllars]

Now this is the danger of having machines that have been connected to the web in any way connected to closed circuit systems controlling sensitive things. Just swap the payload of the worm (though designing a payload is not easy) and you can attack any system you set your sights at that interfaces with machines that have at some point been connected to the web.

[SirTubelot]

How is it "fortunate" that the U.S. is behind this act of terrorism?

[Geo877]

@SirTubelot :D The U.S. has some skill, sure, but nothing compared to some of the Russian best. 

[damewse]

@SirTubelot This might be an act of war but it's not terrorism. Terrorism is word that gets overused, but it applies only to the deliberate targeting of civilians.

[KabouterKont]

@damewse Look up the definition, this is terrorism.

[damewse]

@KabouterKont "There is no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition of terrorism." However, in those whose business it is to argue the ethics of acts of war, terrorism is specifically defined as the DELIBERATE TARGETING OF CIVILIANS (eg) 9/11, suicide bombers, etc. Also, don't be a condescending prick.

[bcn533]

@damewse Uh, no. Where do you get that? There are official U.S. definitions of terrorism that would qualify the Stuxnet episode.

[sqbsbear]

@SirTubelot because if it wasn't the US, they wouldn't be able to fight this if it happened to them.

[tjfitz2000]

@SirTubelot What a fatuous and dishonest comment. 'Terrorism' is a specific tactic of rebellious warfare where the objective is to invoke the maximum amount of 'terror' in a given population. The action against the Iranian nuclear plants was a subtle way of slowing the progress of one of the world's most suicidally Messianic theocracies obtaining apocalyptic weaponry.

[SirTubelot]

@tjfitz2000 The U.S. is the only country to have actually used such "apocalyptic weaponry" in warfare. So it is indeed disconcerting to know that such a belligerent country -- which wants everyone to decide whether they are "with them or against them" -- possesses sophisticated cyber warfare capabilities.

[username7880]

we have the the most targets + higher value targets than any other country in the world, if any country besides the US had this weapon it could be a disaster for for the cyber superpower(united states)

[deathgodespada]

@username7880 well since they experimented with it and took it apart its a big problem for the usa now! It has been made opensource which means it can be set to pretty much any target...

[GamesSpartan]

@SirTubelot ur an idiot. he meant if it was something to do with, for example, Israel then it could, not only lead to another war, but to also a harder way to get into the servers of Israel. If it's already hard enough to even FIND the source of the Stuxnet Virus then it would be a harder job to find it if it wasnt in the US. if it IS in the US then it would be a lot easier for the US Government to find the source and take it down <.<

[KayChasm]

@SirTubelot because Germany isn't one of our enemies

when he said "us" he meant germany

[AsianInvasion777]

@SirTubelot Please look up the word terrorism, not every negative thing in the world is terrorism

[SirTubelot]

@AsianInvasion777 Agreed. I'll rephrase it. How is it fortunate that it is the U.S. that gets to develop a new kind of weapon? It's naïve to think that the U.S. would never use such cyber weapons for it's own narrow-minded interests.

[thaoval123]

@SirTubelot Iran have stated many times that they will bomb Israel, in front of press and in front of the world leaders.

I wouldn't say its fortunate that the US in particular to have made this (if it even was them), but I think it is fortunate that at least someone is scared that a country like Iran has nuclear capability.

Pakistan and India are at each others necks, both have nuclear arms, the last thing the world needs is yet another religiously motivated drive to nuclear arms.

[wgamador]

@thaoval123

I wish all these Gods would have put in their books that their followers could only fight one another with sling-shots.

A religiously motivated nuclear war sounds frightening and a serious possibilty in the near future.

[Lafikhandro]

Here's an idea, Use Linux xD

[roidroid]

Is this video an April Fools or something?

[Saerain]

@roidroid What about it, specifically?

[roidroid]

@Saerain i'd never heard about ANY of this, until now.

It's fascinating.

A little TOO fascinating.

[AppA]

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[mhand00]

@AppA Which Game?

[hoffmanshades]

@mhand00 AUUURGH.  I can't even read binary and you just made me lose! That has to be the most random losing of the game I ever had.

[saeedtsm]

Can't this be considered a terrorist attack? How shameless a government can be!

[roidroid]

@saeedtsm

an attack: yes.

a terrorist attack:  no.

why on earth would this be considered terrorism.

[saeedtsm]

@roidroid It was a rhetorical question. it is a terrorist attack. West is winner of the present history and sadly it gives them power to legalize their actions? Remember roidroid, history is going to change at some point; dont make your future child victim of your present greediness.

[roidroid]

@saeedtsm why is it terrorism.

do you know what the word terrorism means

[saeedtsm]

@roidroid lets use time and space properly, read the first three lines on Wikipedia's article on terrorism.I do agree on that definition. I suggest we stop discussing; at this rate it is never going to finish... Just do a research, how many civilian USA army killed in the past 10 years? -> compare it to the 9/11data -> now you should know what I mean. STUXNET is dangerous, do you know what dangerous mens!

[roidroid]

@saeedtsm there was no violent acts intended to create fear, and no civilians targeted for violent acts.

It was a clandestine, state sponsored act of industrial sabotage. It was meant to remain a SECRET, it's pretty hard for a secret to terrorise anyone.

ALL Weapons are dangerous, and have existed since the dawn of man. Do you lose sleep at night because someone invented a spear, millions of years ago? Get over it.

[MundusPax]

@saeedtsm It's "OK" for US or Israel, they're special

I wonder what their reaction would be if Chinese or Russians did this to a US nuclear power station

[roidroid]

@MundusPax What would happen?

American mouthbreathers would cry that it was an act of terrorism, of course.

I am fucking sick of people using the word "terrorism" for every act that is against your state's interest, or for every act of war, that is NOT what terrorism means.

[MundusPax]

@dans540i And covert military operations in Iran will make things better how? Change their hearts?

I say we need to engage in diplomacy and talks with them. Bring them in to the world community instead of acting like children and kick them off the playground. Ask if they want to play a friendly soccer game and start from there. Humanity needs to cooperate so solve problems.

And if they ever attack Israel (which I think is another US scare tactic) then I will support wiping them off the map.

[SirWinstoneChurchill]

@MundusPax

You are ignorant... The indigenous Persians aren't the problem, it is the Islamic regime that has seized the country.

Islam is a suicide vest lashed to a child at birth and becomes a real bomb in a little over a decade.

Diplomacy? You are living in a fantasy world...

[MundusPax]

@SirWinstoneChurchill I'm ignorant? what makes you a fucking expert?

if you want war then take your family with you and go there and kill them all.

[SirWinstoneChurchill]

@MundusPax

You live in Canada... so shut the fuck up...

[MundusPax]

@SirWinstoneChurchill I don't care where you're from or where you live.

I can respect your oppinion but I will not respect insults.

so FUCK YOU!!!

[SirWinstoneChurchill]

@MundusPax

Go back to Poland and suck up to the Islamics for all I care, or go to the Middle East... this is North America...

moderate muslim = out of bullets

[MundusPax]

@SirWinstoneChurchill Why don't you go back to England and suck on Tony Blair's balls. Take Bush and Chaney with you. What a party for you lovers.

[SirWinstoneChurchill]

@MundusPax

I am English, not British, and I am a U.S. citizen.

They kicked you communist assholes out of Poland, so you went to Canada to try and fuck that country up.

Canadians (and I know a few) are a hell of a lot smarter than that, so go get a big rubber phallus and fuck yourself...

[MundusPax]

@SirWinstoneChurchill "I am English, not British..." ? WTF?

English = person from England, British = person from UK (Oxford dictionary)

Your hometown is Buckinghamshire, England and I told you to go back to England, and you are replying with that stupid statement?

And I'm a commie now? you must be a fuckturd

PS. I am a Canadian citizen, so what?

[MundusPax]

@SirWinstoneChurchill I'm as Canadian as you are American - fuckturd

"I'm English, I'm not British..." that is just a stupid thing to say

It’s like a religious person saying I'm Catholic, I'm not Christian