Stuxnet
Pretty crazy article from this weekend’s New York Times on a worm called Stuxnet that the Israeli government may or may not have created to take out Iranian nuclear facilities:
The worm itself now appears to have included two major components. One was designed to send Iran’s nuclear centrifuges spinning wildly out of control. Another seems right out of the movies: The computer program also secretly recorded what normal operations at the nuclear plant looked like, then played those readings back to plant operators, like a pre-recorded security tape in a bank heist, so that it would appear that everything was operating normally while the centrifuges were actually tearing themselves apart.
Definitely a sign of things to come in cyber warfare.