Tracking a Deadly Computer Virus

Documentary of the Week | Jul 15, 2016

In the documentary Zero Days, Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney investigates the top secret world of cyber warfare. He speaks with anonymous sources at the National Security Agency and other former U.S. government officials on the record to explore the origins and purpose of computer virus known as Stuxnet, which spread all over the world in 2010 and caused explosions at the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran. Now that this new weapon has been unleashed, what can we expect in the future?

— Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen

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