The book is called countdown to zeo day stuxnet and the launch of the worlds First Digital weapon. The author, wired magazine reporter kim zetter. Ms. Zetter, what is or what was stuxnet . Guest stuxnet was a virus worm that was used to attack Irans Nuclear plant in at tans, is and so the work was designed to manipulate the computers that control the centrifuges and speed them up and slow them down in order to degrade the level of uranium enrichment and also do some wear and tear on the centrifuges and destroy them. Host what was unique about stuxnet . Guest stuxnet was really sophisticated. Its, first of all, i guess the most unique thing was this was a virus that was designed to physically destroy something n. The past weve seen malware that steals passwords, credit card numbers, things like that, but wed never seen something that was designed to physically destroy, essentially, leap out of the Digital World into the physical realm and have some kind of kinetic activity. That was the
Attack irani and uranium enrichment plants. It was designed to speed them up or slow them down in order to degrade the level of uranium enrichment. Host what was unique about stuxnet . Guest it was very sophisticated. A virus designed to physically destroy something other than that it was very sophisticated, designed to increase and slow the speed of centrifuges but it also did this remarkable trick to make the operators of the plan think that the operations were perfectly normal. So that was something remarkable about it. One more thing was that stuxnet used what is called a zero day something unknown to the Software Vendor therefore no patch exists and are timeconsuming and expensive to find the vulnerability. Generally we see one zero day in an attack. In this we saw five. Host where and how was it developed . Guest we believe here and israel. This was a process that took a number of years to develop there were multiple teams working on it. We had to have several several teams worki
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Of the Digital World into the physical round and have connectivity. That was the first thing that made stuxnet unique. It was sophisticated. Andas designed to increase slow the speed of the centrifuges. While it was doing that, it did this remarkable trick which was to make the operators of the plant think the operations were perfectly normal. It recorded normal activity on put itputers and then back to the monitoring machines when it was doing the sabotage. That was something remarkable about it. One more thing was that stuxnet used five zero days. It is a volatility that is unknown to the Software Vendor where exists. Rare andto be fairly they are timeconsuming and expensive to find for vulnerabilities. 10 dayly, we see maybe use an attack and this used five. Where and how was it developed and by home . We believe it was developed by the u. S. And israel and tested both here in the u. S. And israel. , it was a process that took a number of years to develop. There were multiple teams
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