
TED Talks
Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon
TV-PG
2011 • E15 Mar 29, 2011 15mWhen 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.