Stuxnet and Cyberwarfare
Additional video:
Chapter 8: Securing Information Systems
a) Cyberwar | Amy Zegart | TEDxStanford :
(b) “60 Minutes” investigates cyber-warfare URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw--zLJT3ak; L=5:52
Questions:
1. What are the three classes of cyberattacks and their effects, according to the Zertag video?
2. What are the five differences between cyber war fare and traditional war fare?
3. Why is the Stuxnet event considered to be historic?
4. What is a danger that the creators of Stuxnet have created for other industrialized countries, including the United States? What is the greatest fear created by Stuxnet?
5. Why are people (agents) needed “on the ground” in order for the Stuxnert virus to work? 6. Why did Iran, and American commentators, not consider Stuxnet an act of war?