Its always going on.<p>Computers were born of a cold war, and thus spawned a new one.<p>You could blame the machine or, the ones sitting behind the keyboards.
And you wonder why Iran wants a nuclear weapon?<p>It is because they need backup when they hit the US and or Israel back their own cyber attacks.<p>I have no love for the Iranians, but if you don't think they are doing what they feel is necessary to secure their own way of life, you are insane.
It was only a matter of time before actions such as these became public. The covert war has been going on for quite a while; I would expect more of these to come to light in the next few months, for good or ill.
The cynic wonders if this is the office workers geting more ordianry viruses and blaming the great satan to save face - migt be a bit hard explaining to the vice police how you got a virus from browsing porn sites.<p>"But Hounoured Mulla - I have no idea how those decadent pictures of those shameless hussys Palin and Widecombe appeared on my PC"