Stuxnet: 21st-century cyber weapon

Cracking code to a "digital warhead" aimed at Iran

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. Ralph Langner heads Langner, an independent cyber-security firm that specializes in control systems -- electronic devices that monitor and regulate other devices, such as manufacturing equipment >>>



07-Apr-2011
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this is scary - a generic cyber-weapon of mass destruction?

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Should we be surprised if/when this program is modified and sent back to haunt the western factories and nuclear plants as a "generic cyber-weapon of mass destruction"?


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Such attack on

by Bavafa on

Such attack on infrastructure is considered act of terrorism in US and this is no different, regardless of who has been behind it.

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