02.14.09
Spiegel: German Military Downed by Microsoft Windows
Don’t rely on foreign binaries in the army
A week ago it was France, Turkey and the United States and now it’s Germany’s turn. Undoubtedly, Microsoft will blame everyone but itself.
There isn’t yet an article about this in English (not yet anyway), so here is an English translation of the original. █
Needs Sunlight said,
February 14, 2009 at 11:53 am
Strangely, it’s not MS’ fault. It’s the fault of the staffers who opened the door to MS.
Dennis Murczak said,
February 14, 2009 at 5:06 pm
As a native speaker I would like to contribute a translation:
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Bundeswehr struggling against virus infestation
After the British and French military, the worm Conficker has also catched the Bundeswehr now. A few hundred computers are affected so far. Several offices were taken off the network to prevent spreading of the malicious software.
Berlin – The Bundeswehr is in action against computer viruses: Since Thursday the virus has spread to several hundred computers of various Bundeswehr offices, a spokesman of the Federal Ministry of Defense disclosed on Friday evening. “A few affected offices were disconnected from the Bundeswehr network in oder to prevent further spreading of the malicious software.”
The Bundeswehr’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERTBw) and the company BWI Informationstechnik are working on removing the worm from the Bundeswehr computers, according to the ministry. Conficker had spread franticly fast among millions of computers worldwide during the previous days. The US software giant Microsoft has offered a reward amounting to 250000 Dollars (about 194000 Euros) for hints pointing to the Virus’ creators.
On Thursday, the French navy had admitted that it had to temporarily shut down its networks in January: A soldier had introduced Conficker via a USB stick.
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