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

TED · talk · Watch on YouTube

Security & hackingGeopolitics & foreign policy

What it is

In an 11-minute TED talk, Ralph Langner explains how his team reverse-engineered the Stuxnet worm and worked out that it targeted industrial control systems, with a covert state origin. It is a compact look at cyber-forensics.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points people to it as the short, accessible account of how Stuxnet was dissected, usually when Stuxnet or state-sponsored malware comes up.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2011, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “Watch these in this order”

    TED talk dissecting Stuxnet.

    phlux, 2011-06 · Recommendation · in “Stuxnet Virus Weapon Now Being Sold On The Black Market”

  2. “The Stuxnet TED talk [0] was really interesting”

    Really interesting Stuxnet dissection.

    vecinu, 2012-05 · Recommendation · in “Flame: Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: stuxnet, cyber weapons, industrial control systems, malware forensics, ted

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