No, the World Economic Forum does not publish blogs about
football (soccer, to some of you), at least not yet. This is
about the not so cold cyber war going on between the United
States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Allegedly,
this started with Stuxnet, a customized malware discovered in
July 2010. It targets Iranian nuclear power plants, supposedly
causing months of delay in the Iranian nuclear programme. It was
followed by FLAME, discovered in May 2012, a reconfigurable
toolkit for information stealing from keyboard, screen,
microphone, storage devices, network, USB – you name it. Again,
Iran was the top target, with the Iranian oil ministry reporting
that some of its facilities were affected.  The Iranian first
goal came on 15 August 2012, at 11.08am, when a computer virus,
called Shamoon, was released in the network of Aramco, the Saudi
state-owned oil company. Shamoon replaced files on tens of
thousands of PCs with the graphic of a burning American flag.
The equalizer goal, using a similar