Academic Training Lectures | Stuxnet and Cyber-Warfare | 13-14 January 2016

Please note that the next series of Academic Training Lectures will take place on 13 and 14 January 2016. The lectures will be given by Gian Piero Siroli (Università e INFN, Bologna (IT))

Stuxnet and Cyber-Warfare (1/2)​
on Wednesday, 13 January from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
http://indico.cern.ch/event/438525/

Stuxnet and Cyber-Warfare (2/2)
on Thursday, 14 January from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
http://indico.cern.ch/event/438526/

at CERN, Council Chamber (503-1-001) 

Description: The first part of the lecture is devoted to the description of the Stuxnet worm, the first cyber-weapon whose existence has been made public, discovered in 2010 and targeting a specific industrial control system; the worm is responsible for the damaging of many centrifuges at an uranium enrichment facility, with the goal of sabotaging Iran's nuclear program. In the second part, the main features of cyber-warfare in conflict and pre-conflict activities will be discussed and compared to the conventional warfare domains, with also a general view at the international political debate on this topic.