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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. You let M$ near your cash? by AHuxley · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Why connect a consumer operating system to any part of a financial hub?
    Did someone want to play a game?
    Download a funny clip?

    Did you learn nothing from the cold war?
    http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/02/071 9247

    M$ is the Trojan horse, you add it to your systems and anyone can just walk in.

    --
    Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
  2. 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.