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International Space Station Windows computers infected with virus.

by Adam Fisher-Cox on Aug 28, 2008 at 07:30 AM

Windows in SpaceThe International Space Station has been infiltrated. That’s right, a virus has made it’s way onto the computers of the International Space Station. The computers, running Windows XP, were non-mission-critical, containing things like e-mail and “nutritional experiments.”

The computers were infected by the W32.Gammima.AG worm, which harvests credentials for online games. Somewhat disconcertingly, the virus has spread since its entry into space, meaning that it is on some sort of onboard drive or intranet.

More troublingly, Wired reports that as for whether mission critical systems are connected in any way to these infected laptops, NASA spokesperson Kelly Humphries said, “I don’t know, and even if I did, I wouldn’t be able to tell you for IT security reasons.”

All current Macs in space remain safe.

Via [Wired]

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