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

STUXNET is an israeli-american cyber-weapon of mass destruction !

This ted talk was so good! I enjoyed learning about the catastrophic dangers that cyberattacks are capable of doing :D

interesting, he still can't pronounce Iran

Thank you for scaring the living day light out of us...thanks.. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

meh, the excellent documentary Zero Days (2016) explains how the primary target of Stuxnet was to cripple the Iranian nuclear machines... the Israelis, who worked with the U.S. to make Stuxnet, acted like stupid children and irresponsibly released it, they were incompetent and moronic for their role in things, and at worst they were traitors who criminally endangered the U.S.

Stuxnet is a smart virus

It was fun experience gathering.

If Stuxnet can be used to target the dedicated centrifuges used by Iran, then it's just a matter of time that a worm/virus is developed to attack a specific component in any/all electric vehicles.

Nicole Perlroth brought me here.

Here after reading "This is how they tell me the world ends" from Nicole Perlroth.

So intriguing. The complexity and sophistication involved in this attack is mind blowing. Great Ted Talk 👍

I understand his motivation to figure out Stuxnet, but why tip off Iran. They are a terrorist regime who was trying to get an A-Bomb to hit Israel and any other enemy. Poor judgment in disclosing this info to a mortal enemy.

The names' Bond, James Bond.

The moment we give credence to a Russian, is the moment we surrender reality.

Cyber weapon of Mass destruction 💥

Ralph says: "the only cyber superpower - US" - Russian hackers just smile at this, while US constantly cries about being hacked.

Very interesting! Pity though, that we're not told who could be behind the attack. It's as important à question as the exact mechanism .

If there’s no x after TED, it’s likely to be a good presenter.

Imagine Stuxnet was build by jihadis

story well told...

at the very end, why Ralph said fortunately? what could happened if that was not US

that Stuxnet it's brutal

The engineering involved in this is bananas.

Too late already redesigned it to bankrupt the federal reserve rip America ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

The United SNAKES of America: The greatest threat to world peace and humanity.

My dumbass neighbour contracted this virus from somewhere and placed that USB to my machine, god damn it. Thanks to malwarebytes I was able to clean it as soon as it was detected.

So where is Stuxnet 2.0??

So.. maybe time for a refactor eh?

Israel basically released this virus on the whole world by taking the existing code and amplifying its aggressiveness and transmittability because they were impatient when it came to disabling Iranian enrichment facilities... this thing may have gone completely undetected if it weren’t for that. In a real sense their carelessness with the data risked global war and spurred serious continuing cyberwarfare today

We are fucked

As a programmer from the US....I say That is interesting 😂

It has now been revealed that this was the work of USA, Israel and Netherlands. With help from at least Germany.

Yesterday, The news broke that the Dutch Secret Services (AIVD) developed the Stuxnet virus. The Dutch intelligence bureau did more BIG cyber operations and was asked by US and Israel for there High skills of covert tech knowledge.

A lot of power outages are the results of this kind of attacks

Israel is funded by the US. But it's like a 15 year old young man with a hard on running around. That was the Stuxnet case. Before ending his term, GW Bush denied Israel support for a series of air strikes and a war. But they agreed to work on a way of soft intervention on Iran's nuclear plan. Stuxnet was developed in th US and Israel used in a clumsy way (remember the anxious young man with a hard on?). They just unleashed the virus and it spreaded all over the world. Then Obama made the nuclear deal. And now DJT is focused on China and the soft economic coup and inside pressure by the FED.

Humans, create great tech (or steal it from others) and then find the dumbest possible use. Instead of sitting down, talking and learning to trust each other (which is ultimately what they had to do in this case) they will always find a way to hurt or better kill. A great vulnerability (probably not zero day, but there is no fix/patch for this it seems) to exploit I must say if I was an intelligent machine, very useful to use it and wipe them out without having do anything myself.

TERRORIST=UNITED STATES+ISRAEL !

what are the 5 things inside the bomb

Talk about stuxnet vs ransomware

U.s. was first to use atomic bombs and now the first to use the atomic cyber bomb. Things will get interesting from here.

326 comments, 326 people who have no clue what this man just said.

It's pretty obvious that no one what's to name the Israelis other than saying there was 'some' involvement. Does anyone really believe that Obama would work with Netanyahu on this? I don't.
I think Israel did this on their own. Both to attack Iran but also ruin the virus as something
Obama wanted to hold in reserve. Isl didn't like that. It made them uncomfortable

is it possible that stuxnet is a smaller part of a much bigger, more capable attack platform that the us/israel military created? that would be frightening toknow the true scope of what they're able to do. why pick on little iran when bigger more dangerous pakistan is there though.

Since when is New Zealand a nuclear target zone? We have no nuclear capacity.

dang thing changed my name from Nical to Nizal in ecourt for multnomah co. to Oregon state system and says I'm from nizal Iran 2016

omg this drives me silly. the cascade is resistors for driveline pump spread across rotor controller with pulsitile lead impedance from orphaned lead previous non Dr icd

Whats that accent called? Its so fucked up and annoying!!

Should've got a Mac, Iran

how bout zero days movie (2016)??