The Origins Of A Virus

by Patrick Appel

Kim Zetter has the backstory on Stuxnet, the most powerful cyberweapon we know of:

In the end, Stuxnet’s creators invested years and perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars in an attack that was derailed by a single rebooting PC, a trio of naive researchers who knew nothing about centrifuges, and a brash-talking German who didn’t even have an internet connection at home.