Strangely, it's not MS' fault. It's the fault of the staffers who opened the door to MS.
Dennis Murczak
2009-02-14 22:06:05
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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Because digital connections in third parties aren't assets; they endow another party with tremendous power over people (e.g. MElon getting to decide who can and cannot reach people or what messages to "dim down")
Narrowing down to desktops and laptops, and judging by Web requests that go through Clownflare, many people there use GNU/Linux or Google's 'bastardised' version of it (with spyware preloaded)
From what we can gather, the tram ticketing system does not use Windows; we never saw it crashing or rebooting (or showing some Windows logo) in decades, so we assume it runs some kind of Linux
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Needs Sunlight
2009-02-14 16:53:29
Dennis Murczak
2009-02-14 22:06:05
--- 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. ---