Stuxnet and Details
Stuxnet was a 500-Kb computer worm that infiltrated many computer systems (Hoolloway, 2015). It is currently agreed upon that this worm was designed as a cyber weapon to attack the development of Iran's nuclear program (Holloway, 2015). Everyone seems to think that this was an attack orchestrated by The State. In this case, The State would be two states: The United States and Israel [(Holloway, 2015) and (Alazab et al, 2014)]. Alazab et al (2014) does mention the National Security Agency and that does agree with what Holloway (2015) states, even though Holloway states that in a heavier manner. Holloway (2015) says that Edward Snowden (Gallagher, 2013) said that was the case in 2013. Edward Snowden actually worked for the NSA for a time (Gallagher, 2013). Alazab et al (2014) says that it was the NSA plus the Unit 8200, which would be the Israelian counterpart for the NSA. Operation Olympic Games would be the name of this operation according to Alazab et al (2014). Stuxnet would ...