TED Talks

Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon (2011x15)

Air date: Mar 29, 2011

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.