Malware infected space station notebook
Malware has once again managed to get from Earth onto the International Space Station, a NASA spokesman confirmed last week. The attack code infected at least one laptop used on the station, an international operation led by the U.S. and Russian space agencies. The NASA spokesman declined to identify the malware, saying only that antivirus software had detected it on July 25. The SpaceRef.com news site last week identified the bug as W32.Gammima.AG. The spokesman said the worm posed no threat to the station or its crew. “It was never a threat to any command-and-control or operations computer,” he said.
The spokesman refused to disclose how the malware was installed on the computer, though an entry into the station’s daily logs, posted on NASA’s Web site, suggests that digital camera storage cards may be responsible. Graham Cluley, a consultant at Sophos PLC, noted that “if there is any good news at all, it’s that the [W32.Gammima.AG] malware was designed to steal usernames and passwords from computer game players,” and orbiting astronauts aren’t likely to be spending a lot of time playing games.
Source: Computer World
maybe that virus is an alien that tried to communicate w/ the people on earth… hahahahahahaha
Pretty sure I’d be playing computer games if I was stuck in space for years at a time
whoa, quick posting - that news is only about a week old
one of the crew members was probably watching porn.
I think the porn is the reason too, out there in the cold,dead space…it’s hard…
: )
lol, they got a keylogger!
hello,
where you find this old news? google chache?
hth
Porn was definately my first guess as well… Now intelligent lifeform thinks we’re all a bunch of pervs!
Like “someguy” said I’d be playing games..
LoL Stuck on a International Space Station for 6m - 12m at a time..
I’d be playing Space Invaders
LoLz
For some reason, this reminded me of a comic on xkcd a couple of weeks ago:
http://xkcd.com/463/
Playing space invaders?? You have the time to see ACTUAL UFOs in space, that you then can never talk about lest NASA kills u or something.. i would be looking at those not playing games
youtube search ‘ufo NASA tether incident’
I’d love to be the hacker who could say a virus he wrote made it to space!
@7 … it is spelled cache…. not chache neither sasha or whatever .. pff
As for the worm .. Imagine the virus creator’s joy… His worm has even dominated the space…
Man now the aliens think we are all sex starved perverts
they will land soon to test that assumption
When will Nasa learn to stop using Microsoft software… idiots.
iuh
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releases but old news as well.