Find out why jack wallen highly recommends the film. Live tv is available in the 50 united states and the district of columbia only. Stuxnet is a form of virus known as a zero day exploit. These types of exploits are called this because they give the users zero days notice before becoming active and implementing their attack. An unprecedented look at stuxnet, the worlds first. Stuxnet attackers used 4 windows zeroday exploits zdnet. Compatible device and highspeed, broadband internet connection required. Even though this movie is about geopolitics of the stuxnet virus, its one of a larger class of viruses that exploit an unknown vulnerability in software. Zero days covers the phenomenon surrounding the stuxnet computer virus and the development of the malware software known as olympic games. Theyre hard to find, and they can only be used once. It altered the speed of centrifuges in the plants and shut them down. Stuxnet and the launch of the worlds first digital weapon. Zero days film tells the true story of the stuxnet cyber.
Microsoft reveals stuxnet worm exploits multiple zero days. For the first time, the film tells the complete story of stuxnet, a piece of selfreplicating computer malware known as a worm for its ability to burrow from computer to computer on its own that the u. Silence in the house of god tries to get people intelligence operatives, politicians, cyber experts, and others in the know to talk openly about stuxnet, but everyones lips are officially sealed. Stuxnet is an extremely sophisticated computer worm that exploits multiple previously unknown windows zeroday vulnerabilities to infect computers and spread. The man who found stuxnet sergey ulasen in the spotlight. Delve deep into the burgeoning world of digital warfare in this. A zero day also known as 0 day vulnerability is a computersoftware vulnerability that is unknown to, or unaddressed by, those who should be interested in mitigating the vulnerability including the vendor of the target software. Zero days was among 15 films shortlisted for the academy award for best. The movie briefly covers nsa analystturned whistleblower edward snowden and his escape from american authorities to hong kong and later to russia, after leaking classified information about global surveillance programs used by the american government to spy on people around the world and other nations activities. Stuxnet is a highly infectious selfreplicating computer worm that disrupted iranian nuclear plants.
Documentary explores the cyberwar secrets of stuxnet. A documentary thriller about the world of cyberwar. Zero days would be worth seeing just for its account of the stuxnet operation, which boomerangs when israel pushes things too far, much to american dismay. We did see the threat get dramatically more aggressive, and the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010, when they added the usb and zeroday. For people wanting to work back to 20th century cyber war, i suggest the hut sux story about. Alex gibneys 2016 documentary zero days covers the phenomenon around stuxnet. These type of exploits can lie dormant without detection for long periods of time and are hypothesized to be able to crack almost. In zero days, gibney provides a comprehensive overview of the stuxnet worma sophisticated piece of malware that, on june 17, 2010, was found by. Zero days examines cyberwarfares potential online apocalypse. The film tells the story of stuxnet, selfreplicating computer malware known as a worm for its ability to burrow from computer to computer on its. Countdown to zero day, a new book by wired journalist kim zetter, is a whodunnit for the internet age. They detail how even in the world of hightech hacking, stuxnet was a unicorn, a lengthy, flawlessly crafted piece of code with multiple examples of what they call zero day exploits.
A documentary focused on stuxnet, a piece of selfreplicating computer malware that the u. I began reading countdown to zero day thinking it would be a more detailed exploration of the stuxnet attack against the iranian uranium enrichment program. What is stuxnet, who created it and how does it work. The attackers behind the recent stuxnet worm attack used four different zeroday security vulnerabilities to burrow into and spread around microsofts windows operating system. Zero days is a 2016 american documentary film directed by alex gibney. Along with the nine security bulletins released for patch tuesday, microsoft revealed that four additional zero days are used by the stuxnet worm, and two remain unpatched. In february 20, symantec announced the discovery of an earlier variant of stuxnet that demonstrated the attacks on the natanz nuclear facility dated back as early as 2005 and targeted another piece.
Zero days is another cursory info dump from the insanely. Zero days documentary exposes a looming threat of the. The new screen savers 59 stuxnet and zero days the movie. Whoever wrote stuxnet was willing to spend a lot of money to ensure that whatever job it was.
Zero days is a documentary by oscarwinning filmmaker alex gibney about the cyberwarfare pandoras box that was opened with the stuxnet malware. Schouwenberg was most impressed by stuxnets having performed not just one but four zeroday exploits, hacks that take advantage of vulnerabilities previously unknown to the whitehat community. Chilling zero days investigates the stuxnet virus and. For the first time, the film tells the complete story of stuxnet, a piece of selfreplicating computer malware known as a. Zero days, gibneys latest effort, is essentially a twohour adaptation of wikipedias stuxnet entrythough gibney, to his credit, does succeed in unearthing one juicy new bit or perhaps byte of information, which was made public in the new york times literally the day prior to the films premiere at this years berlin.
Zero days official trailer 1 2016 stuxnet virus documentary hd. Discovery of new zeroday exploit links developers of. Although the movie strays, a lot, into irans nuclear program and the historical basis of. If you can come out of that viewing without at least a few questions on your mind, youre doing. Zero days official movie site own it on dvd or digital hd. Aimed to disrupt, degrade and destroy irans infrastructure, the program would mean a full scale cyber war, in the words of one expert, a war in. Alex gibneys zero days is a documentary thriller about the world of cyberwar. Stuxnet a type of zeroday vulnerability was one of the earliest digital weapons used. We need laws for cyberweapons his latest documentary lays bare the story of the stuxnet worm, a groundbreaking virus. As the excerpt begins, its june 2009a year or so since stuxnet was first released, but still a year before. Alex gibney traces the rise of the stuxnet worm and offers a brief history lesson on the evolution of cyberwarfare in the doc zero days. With david sanger, emad kiyaei, eric chien, liam omurchu. Alex gibneys documentary tells the story of the malware that was.
Zero days film tells the true story of the stuxnet cyber weapon. Stuxnet is based on gibneys cyberwarfare documentary zero days, which came out in 2016 from showtime documentary films, and is the first time that the complete story of the phenomenon was. Hbo developing stuxnet drama based on alex gibneys. And in his latest documentary, the fascinating and horrifying zero days, alex gibney the armstrong lie, mea maxima culpa. Alex gibneys new documentary, zero days, looks at the stuxnet worm a cyber weapon developed by the u.
A zeroday also known as 0day vulnerability is a computersoftware vulnerability that is unknown to, or unaddressed by, those who should be interested in mitigating the vulnerability including the. A fascinating new documentary film by alex gibney called zero days that premieres on friday tells the story of stuxnet, along with the frightening takeaway that, while this was the first cyber. At the time it was first publicly identified in june, researchers believed that stuxnet whose roots were later traced as far back as june 2009 exploited just one unpatched, or zeroday. Why the disturbing stuxnet documentary is a mustsee. The nominal subject of zero days is stuxnet, a malicious computer virus that incapacitated irans nuclear centrifuges in 2009 and 2010, and. Stuxnet is incredibly sophisticatedit used four separate zeroday attacks including cve20102568 to infiltrate systems and was precision built. It tells the true tale of how a complicated virus, which later came to be known as stuxnet. A fascinating new documentary film by alex gibney called zero days premieres this friday.
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