In June of 2010, a virus named Stuxnet was found planted in the networks of factories and power plants across the world. What was it doing? Nothing...yet. Stuxnet had the ability to overwork certain devices to the point of failure, then disable the alert system so that the factory operators had no clue that something had gone wrong. Stuxnet was used to target a nuclear power plant named Natanz in Iran. It’s goal was to take control of the thousands of uranium centrifuges and spin them out of control. It worked, destroying ⅕ of Iran’s equipment and setting their nuclear program back by 2 years. Seven years earlier in the US, the northeast experienced a massive blackout from New York, to Ohio, to Canada. The odd thing about this? The official