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How Ralph Langner's team reverse-engineered Stuxnet

TED · Talk · 11 min · 2011 · YouTube title: Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon
Why it's here

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

What it covers

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.