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

http://www.ted.com When first discovered in 2010, the Stuxnet computer worm posed a baffling puzzle. Beyond its unusually high level of sophistication loomed a more troubling mystery: its purpose. Ralph Langner and team helped crack the code that revealed this digital warhead's final target -- and its covert origins. In a fascinating look inside cyber-forensics, he explains how.

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[LangnerRalph]

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

[TheAppifier]

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

[zimonslot]

When does stuxnet become self-aware?

[Argoon1981]

is called efficiency, if the information comes across fast and easily that way then even a engineer can do a slide no need to contract a graphic designer to do presentation slides. The information is the must important not the looks of the slide show.

[Richard Liu]

Then why are we a target from Iran? or is it due to our poor defensive capabilities that we are a target?

[deltasword1994]

It's really because you guys are in the middle of nowhere. You're really difficult to get to.

[Richard Liu]

New Zealand doesn't have any enemy's though? We work well with other country's. We don't have a large military due to the fact that we don't need to defend our self's as we have no threats from other country's.

[deltasword1994]

Because New Zealand is a western nation. It may not have any military, economic, or political worth, but the Kiwi's are still 'one of us'.

[viscountalpha]

Wanna hear something you won't hear elsewhere? (I can deny it all so its all good) Those siemens PLC systems were sold to iran with the idea they would be sabotaged from the get go. Iran wasn't supposed to get ahold of those refinement systems from the first place.

Guess whats going to their new processing facility?

[Richard Liu]

Then what's the point in telling me? just tell me or you don't know?

[RandallFlaggNY]

I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.

[Richard Liu]

No serious question, got an answer?