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Space Station Notebook Infected Again with Malware |
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Written by Dragana Dimitrijevic
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Monday, 01 September 2008 |
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NASA spokesman confirms that Malware again prevented launching from Earth onto the International Space Station. It looks that astronauts in spare time played a lot of games. Here is a quote from article that was written by Mr. Gregg Keizer at ComputerWorld:
"September 1, 2008 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..."
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Full article can be read HERE .
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