by Davey Winder
Saturday, 17 January 2009
Sir William Blackstone famously said the Royal Navy was something along
the lines of being England's "ancient and natural strength; the floating
bulwark of the island." But then there weren't many computer viruses
around in the 18th century.
NASA has had worms in space and some Trojans have even managed to
infiltrate the odd GPS SatNav unit before now.
However, the Ministry of Defence in the UK is more used to dealing with
UFO reports than military malware it has to be said.
Which is why reports of a virus infiltrating the comms network of pretty
much the entire Royal Navy fleet has come as such a surprise.
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that, while no weaponry systems or
navigational networks were impacted by the virus, other IT systems had
been hit.
Read More... http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22716/53/
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