Live Breaking News & Updates on Digital Certificate|Page 5
Stay updated with breaking news from Digital certificate. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
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, essential ....
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 ....
Connection with computers were infected meaning that they didnt need to work from outside to get into. Maybe the first version of stuxnet was planted there and maybe they lost that access in subsequent versions and the maven the reason why they had to add zero days to spread. Host kim zetter has been with wired magazine since 2003. Prior to that, pc world. Ms. Zetter, are you a techy . Guest no. Know i get into tech journalism journalism, not by choice. And then found i really loved it. I dont particularly like gadgets in particular or computers in the sense of taking them apart and programming things like that i love the issues around computers. Issues around cybersecurity and privacy issues and civil liberties, those are the things that attracted. Host what was it about stuxnet the passage enough to write about . Guest it was multifaceted. It wasnt a simple worm and it wasnt a simple attack and was unlike anything weve seen before. It was just multiple ways of approaching this story ....
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 her ....
Internet. They are places where more networks of the internet connects more than any whorls, and they are mostly in places you would expect, london, frankfurt, tokyo, and places like ashburn, virginia, an unincorporated suburb not far from dulles airport, where if you ask the Network Engineers that i talk about, they would say new york, los angeles, ashburn, as if it were a Global Capital and not a tiny suburb. There is a surprisingly short list of places that are the hot spots on the internet. Andrew blum looks for the internet in the real world monday night on the communicators on cspan2. Next, 10 years of the e government act, improving government access and productivity. This is just over one hour. All right, so why do we not just jump into this next panel . If ms. Panel was about the tenures, this panel is really about the next 10 years. What are the big challenges ye ....