A well-written overview of the attack of the Stuxnet virus attack on the Iranian nuclear program earlier this year. While the article doesn't go into depth, it's relatively common-knowledge as to who the players were and the reasons for the attack.
I find it interesting both in terms of the level of professional skill involved - the best operations occur when the target doesn't even realize you were there until much later (if ever) - and for the glimpse of the future it provides. As events like this, the Wikileaks document issues, and others have shown us, computers and their vulnerabilities are going to be just as important to the battlefields between nation-states as an infantry battalion or aircraft squadron.
The cyberpunk science-fiction of a few decades ago comes closer each and every year.
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Score one for Mossad.
(I figure the CIA would still be waiting for approval... ;))
That is also the most comprehensive article on the viral attack I've seen yet.
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