Discovered in June 2010, the Stuxnet computer worm gained global renown when it was implicated in the disabling of Iranian centrifuges used for uranium enrichment (prompting Iran to issue an RFP to counter-hackers). Stuxnet is considered more complicated and more potent than any other virus on record. Though it seems to have focused its destructive capability on Iran's nuclear program, dormant copies of the worm were found on scores of other networks around the world, including some that controlled pressure gauges for nuclear reactors. Stuxnet covered its tracks by telling system operators that everything was normal. But wait, it gets worse...
Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus from Patrick Clair on Vimeo.
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