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Computer Virus Fells Russian Stock Exchange
azav wrote to mention the New Scientist story detailing the computer virus that brought down the Russian Stock Exchange. From the article: "As the world waited for one computer virus to strike on Friday, another wriggled its way into the Russian stock exchange and knocked it offline. Computer experts had warned that 3 February could bring gloom for many as a computer virus called Nyxem was scheduled to start deleting files on machines it had infected."
Virus? I wanted to play Global Thermonuclear War....
A bullet sounds the same in every language. So stick a fucking sock in it...
And they use computers? This is excellent news!
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Or due to the talented Russians writing the exploits for money?
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Stock exchange gives YOU virus!
It's four 286s and an Apple IIe in Vlad Putin's cousin's basement.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: That averages about 660,000,000 of each kind.
In Russia, stock exchange fells you!
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It should read: Russian Exchange trades in Computer Viruses
acording to this story on Arstechnica. Altho' I'm getting a 500 error on their eweek reference...