Computer Virus Infects U.S. Predator, Reaper Drones

[Guest]

A mysterious computer virus has infected the Predator and Reaper drones of the U.S. Military.

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[Lutfij]

hmm - i smell another attack from anonymous

 

[house70]

LOL - leveling the play field a little...

(thumb me down if you agree, thumb me up if you concur)

 

[fyasko]

hire REAL IT security people instead of using so called military IT experts...

 

[cmartin011]

china having a good laugh at our military now

 

[guardianangel42]

[citation][nom]Lutfij[/nom]hmm - i smell another attack from anonymous[/citation]

God I hope so. There's nothing more satisfying than seeing an arogant entity shown the real world.

Anonymous likes to think they can take on the world, but they have no idea. The resources of nation states that aren't being heavily sanctioned economically are not something to trifle with.

Stick to corporations and learn from Japan little ones, you're lives will be so much easier.

 

[ltdementhial]

it's Skynet! we are doomed!

 

[southernshark]

Skynet is the virus......

 

[lashabane]

A virus targeting Predator and Reaper drones. Can we call it the Reaper Virus?

 

[offerings12]

combofix.exe

 

[aftcomet]

I really hope the Military invests the majority of their resources into security. Especially considering in the near future our Fighter Pilots will be sitting in a booth controlling the aircraft remotely. Someone could break into the system and attack the whole nation with their own weapons. Scary thought.

 

[tokencode]

Is our military really this terrible? If your remote vehicle control system with guided missles is infected with a virus, YOU STOP USING IT. If it can log keystrokes, I'm sure it can insert them into the keyboard buffer potentially. They can't figure out how to remove a virus? How do you know this thing can't recieve a different payload? This country that our military has such incompentent security "experts" for the amount of money spent on our defense infrastructure. Have they considered bringing the PC to Best Buy's Geek Squad?

 

[jhansonxi]

Windows and missiles don't mix (and yes, it's a Windows virus).

 

[jdwii]

Come on U.S beat these Hoe's down! I wish this country had the best TECH in the world.

 

[kcorp2003]

dammit its the MACHINES! SKYNET IS REAL! JUDGEMENT DAY FOOLS!

RISE AGAINST THE MACHINES BEFORE ITS TOO LATE.

 

[itserenity]

I am willing to remove the mal-ware permanently at no charge.

If you could just pass my contact information along.

 

[thesnappyfingers]

time to reformat the windows.

 

[dontknownotsure]

install nod32 on drones

 

[neonneophyte]

they found the virus, not how it got there. of course its going to come back

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]cmartin011[/nom]china having a good laugh at our military now[/citation]

If they're laughing at the US, then they must be really laughing at their own.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

I wonder if Anon has anything to do with this.

 

[tacoslave]

they should be running a custom linux distro and hire real it experts

 

[Parsian]

Stop hiring people from ITTech.

 

[alyoshka]

Skynet in the making, I'd say. If the Drones are not safe, what guarantees are there for the people they fly over?

 

[face-plants]

I don't know if anyone read the full article over at the New York Post but jhansonxi posted a link to it right in his comment above:

Tom's shortened version of this article (especially the title) implies that the drones were themselves infected. This is NOT the case...it was several Windows machines at one specific Air Force base in Nevada that got infected. The very same source that this information came from also said "We have a closed looped system and heavily protected cockpits - the planes were never in jeopardy."

It's still bad news that any systems related to UAV's got infected but the reality is way better than the rogue predator drones controlled by hackers that I first imagined after seeing the title of this article.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/virus_infects_nevada_control_stations_NpM29a4WkNDrQ5uWCWuOCJ#ixzz1aGASp7nG