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Stuxnet
The world’s first weapon entirely made of code
Ever heard of “Operation Olympic Games” in terms of a cyber attack? Behind this rather friendly name lurks one of the most complex, dangerous and targeted piece of malware ever discovered, causing noticeable harm in real life: Stuxnet.
Because not only criminals hack themselves into computers – also nation states attack each other via software: The worm strategically sabotaged the centrifuges of the Iranian uranium enrichment facility and is the reason why nations today are challenged to not only protect their physical borders, but also their cyber information space.
In this episode our experts Rüdiger Peusquens, Head of Cyber Defense at Deutsche Telekom Security and Lando Pietsch, former Chief of the German Cyber and Information Domain Service, discuss how Stuxnet became the first cyber weapon the world has seen, the circumstances behind the attack and what consequences followed.
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