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Worm Attack Prompts DoD To Ban Use of External Media

Posted by timothy on from the sehr-klug dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Pentagon has suffered from a cyber attack so alarming that it has taken the unprecedented step of banning the use of external hardware devices, such as flash drives and DVDs [...] The attack came in the form of a global virus or worm that is spreading rapidly throughout a number of military networks."

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  1. Re:This isn't alarming... by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And you foed me for that?

    I thought it was creative and funny at the same time... However it wasnt as funny as my "Reply To This" "Parent" links I did.. They changed those buttons after trick-positing to michael.

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