[Rival] More details of Stuxnet emerging

[JeffM]

The infection affected Windoze boxes
that were used to configure Seimens' industrial controllers
and which transfered bogus instructions to those PLC systems.

The goal was to alter the speed
of Iranian Uranium-enrichment centrifuges
to degrade that process--but not so much as to be obvious.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/11/16/0347231&mode=nested&threshold=5

Theories abound as to the source.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/11/16/0347231&mode=nested&threshold=5#34240178

This definitely wasn't some kid in his Mom"s basement.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/11/16/0347231&mode=nested&threshold=5#34240968

There are several links there to more-primary sources.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/11/16/0347231&mode=nested&threshold=5#34240608