Recently a Virus Named Gammima.AG was found on a Laptop issued to one of the NASA space astronauts which were taken to the ISS.
The virus which was discovered in August 2007 waits on infected machines waiting to steal login names for popular online games.
I guess NASA astronauts in Space should have time to play Star Wars.
NASA said it was not sure how the machines were infected and its not the first the first time computer viruses had travelled into space.
The news was first broken by Space news Website SpaceRef. According to NASA no command or Program of ISS is at risk due to the malicious Program.
The Laptops were used to run nutritional programs and were used by the astronauts to send e-mail back to Earth.
Picture this the Laptops taken by the Astronauts do not have any Anti-virus installed on them. So even NASA has to go through cost cuttings. Interesting update HUH………
Once it has scooped up passwords and login names the Gammima.AG worm virus tries to send them back to a central server. It targets a total of 10 games most of which are popular in the Far East such as Maple Story, HuangYi Online and Talesweaver.
Also one more interesting update, I taught only people like us working in Multi-nationals have their data scanned by their employers, but NASA Says all the data from the ISS is scanned before it’s transmitted, as it does not have a direct Net connection.
It is thought that the virus might have travelled via a flash or USB drive owned by an astronaut and taken into space. I wonder what would the astronauts have on those drives which they are hiding and NASA has no idea about it.
Also NASA says that this is not the first time this has happened. Salute to security at NASA……………..
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This post was written by Brad on August 27, 2008
