I think this is by far the weirdest, most disturbing, most fascinating "nuclear news" story currently unfolding... Stuxnet is the computer "worm" believed to be designed for targeted attacks against Iranian nuclear facilities. Today there were new hints that Israel really was primarily responsible for the worm, in a video created to celebrate the retirement of high-level Israeli defense official, which mentioned the worm. Israel has not made any official statements about the worm. However, they have previously undertaken targeted conventional attacks against nuclear facilities in neighboring countries (notably Syria in 2007).
Telegraph article on the video
Security analysts have been studying the worm after the fact to figure out how it worked and what it did. In the mean time, several news organizations are reporting that "hacktivists" under the collective name Anonymous have obtained and released "decompiled" versions of the Stuxnet code. It doesn't sound from the news stories as if their version is particularly dangerous, but the whole issue of targeted cyberattacks as a new form of war or subversion is pretty interesting...
A few articles:
BBC article on Symantec's analysis of the Stuxnet worm
Switched tech blog article on Anonymous obtaining the worm
Fox News article on the Anonymous release
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