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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. Debian by karma78ready · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have Debian installed. I feel much better.

  2. Re:In Soviet Russia.. by Paperweight · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    +1 Redundant

  3. And on the moviefront... by David+Munch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I would higly recommend "Hackers" from 1995. The movie takes place in 1988, and starts out with an 11 year old boy taking down Wall-Street! It even has a hothothothot Angelina jolie starring as _the_ hacker-chick... 8) http://imdb.com/title/tt0113243/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD 0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9aGFja2Vyc3xmdD0xfG14PTIw fGxtPTUwMHxjbz0xfGh0bWw9MXxubT0x;fc=1;ft=23;fm=1