Big Picture Science – What the Hack: Eric Chien / Stuxnet Virus

by Gary Niederhoff on June 28, 2015

What the Hack: Eric Chien
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Part 2 of What the Hack, featuring Eric Chien, Technical Director of Security Technology and Response at Symantec, describing how the stuxnet virus was used to disable Iran’s uranium centrifuges.

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