Countdown to Zero Day

Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon by Kim Zetter, Crown, 2015.

Three stories:

• Detecting Stuxnet

• Stuxnet

• Iran's centrifuges

Applications of PLCs:

• Oil and gas pipelines

• turbines of power plants

• sewage pumps

• robots on car assembly lines

• steel furnaces

• trains

• elevators

Players:

• Symantec

• NSA

• Israel I.D.F. Ujite 8200

• Iran

• Siemens programmable logic controllers

• Kaspersky Lab (Eugene)

• ISIS

• IAEA

• Uranium hexafluoride

• Microsoft

• Zero Day Exploint

• Other Ciber weapons

• Missile and payload

• Aurora Generator Test

• ICS-CEERT

Symantec employeees:

• O'Murchu, Liam

• Chien, Eric

• Nicolas Falliere

David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security

Sergey Ulasen from Virus Blok Ada (Belarus)

Abdul Qadeer Khan had worked for a Dutch company wher ehe stole centrifuge designs for Pakistan.

Langner, Ralph; including Ralf Rosen and Andreas Tim

3-man firm that studied industrial control systems,

[Enrichment Technology Corporation]

[Frank Rieger of GSMK]

[ISIA, Symantec]

[Idaho National Lab]

[Mohsen Vanaki]