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Computer Virus Fells Russian Stock Exchange

Posted by Zonk on from the doesn't-pick-up-after-itself dept.

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."

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  1. Re:What stock exchange? by ktulu182 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Are you living in a cave? Russian stock market almost doubled last year. It was the most profitable stock market in the world in 2005.

  2. The Yorktown by westlake · · Score: 4, Informative
    Except when the computers on the warship crashed and forced the Navy to tow it back to port. But, you know, other than a catostrophic crash everything is running great

    This has become tiresome.

    The Yorktown (CG-48) was in 1997 a test-bed for the Navy's Smart Ship program. USS Yorktown (CG-48) Test-beds are driven to failure. In 2004,the year of her retirement, Yorktown was assigned to Strike Group Wasp, a vote of confidence, I would think, in the vessel and in the technology. USS Yorktown Deploys as Part of Expeditionary Strike Group