Virus Makes It Into Space(station)
It’s probably not the first virus to make it into orbit but it seems like the International Space Station (ISS) has had an uninvited guest. NASA has confirmed reports that laptops carried onto the ISS in July were infected with the virus known as Gammima.AG. The virus lurks, as many do, in order to steal login names for popular online games. Hardly going to bring the station crashing back to Earth but it’s certainly an embarrassment considering you can get a virus into space and you can’t get a bottle of water onto a plane. The virus was discovered on astronaut laptops used to run nutritional programs and for checking emails but no critical systems or software were compromised, NASA claimed. Most worrying of all is that the laptops used by the astronauts do not run any anti-virus software.-Martin Lynch [SpaceRef] laptop space virus
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