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Virus Infection Hits UK's Ministry of Defense, Including Warships

Posted by timothy on from the but-not-windows-for-warships-per-se dept.

Retrovirus writes with a link to a Register story which says that the UK's "Ministry of Defence confirmed today that it has suffered virus infections which have shut down 'a small number' of MoD systems, most notably including admin networks aboard Royal Navy warships."

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  1. Re:Switching to Windows by pejyel · · Score: 5, Interesting
    And it took hardly a month till they got infected...
    FTA:

    Since 6 Jan 09 the performance of the MOD IT systems in a number of areas was affected by a virus. Immediate action was taken to isolate the problem to stop the virus from spreading. This meant that some people were without regular IT access (i.e. email, internet). There have been no infections detected on any networks with sensitive information.

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