STUXNET

The only thing I can say is that it's something designed to go bang...

“ ... Stuxnet was built by a very sophisticated and capable attacker -- possibly a nation state -- and it was designed to destroy something big ... . The worm actually looks for very specific Siemens settings -- a kind of fingerprint that tells it that it has been installed on a very specific Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) device -- and then it injects its own code into that system. ...  when Stuxnet finally identifies its target, it makes changes to a piece of Siemens code called Organizational Block 35. This Siemens component monitors critical factory operations -- things that need a response within 100 milliseconds. By messing with Operational Block 35, Stuxnet could easily cause a refinery's centrifuge to malfunction, but it could be used to hit other targets too, Byres said. "The only thing I can say is that it is something designed to go bang," he said. [Full] I'm absolutely fascinated by this.  It's a certainty that the winning side in the next great world war  (if it hasn't already begun) will  prevail with cybertoge.  Nerds rule the universe.  Awk!