A fascinating article in New York Times details the fascinating details of the Stuxnet virus, apparently the most successful cyber weapon in recent times.
Given that Industrial Controllers are a part of a everything from factories to missile launch configurations, I believe this is a fascinating area of study for the world’s research scientists including creating variants and defenses for this.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/middleeast/16stuxnet.html
Also a 2008 presentation by Siemens that the NYT was kind enough to link to- (whither Wikileaks ??)
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