10-07-2011, 12:15
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Computer Virus Infects U.S. Drone Fleet
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011...s-drone-fleet/
A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones.
The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech’s computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military’s most important weapons system.
“We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back,” says a source familiar with the network infection, one of three that told Danger Room about the virus. “We think it’s benign. But we just don’t know.”
Military network security specialists aren’t sure whether the virus and its so-called “keylogger” payload were introduced intentionally or by accident; it may be a common piece of malware that just happened to make its way into these sensitive networks. The specialists don’t know exactly how far the virus has spread. But they’re sure that the infection has hit both classified and unclassified machines at Creech. That raises the possibility, at least, that secret data may have been captured by the keylogger, and then transmitted over the public internet to someone outside the military chain of command.
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10-07-2011, 13:26
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They need to lay off the porn . . .
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10-07-2011, 14:17
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Chinese IMHO...or porn.
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10-07-2011, 14:20
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Chinese IMHO...or porn.
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Worse yet...Chinese porn!
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10-07-2011, 15:32
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We did this to others for years.
Now that we have lost our manufacturing base, the chickens have finally come home to roost.
Almost certainly Chinese, whether our government will admit it or not.
TR
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10-07-2011, 15:42
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Worse yet...Chinese porn!
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10-08-2011, 22:10
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And they still have yet to even encrypt the drone video feeds as well  . China...maybe, bear in mind though, that it doesn't take a whole lot to develop cyber-warfare capability (as opposed to conventional capabilities), especially these days as governments move towards COTS and a heavily contracted technology base; there are plenty of other suspects as well...
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We did this to others for years.
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Spot on(as usual ), Google the "Farewell Dossier".
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10-09-2011, 07:15
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Some moron probably downloaded weatherbug while looking through porn.
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10-11-2011, 05:38
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Worse yet...Chinese porn!
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What's wrong with Chinese porn?
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10-11-2011, 07:54
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Originally Posted by Dusty
A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones,
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They have cockpits??
This explains the unitlateral targeting of bad guys...
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