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Old Worm Digs New Dirt At Pentagon

Posted by Soulskill on from the fool-me-twice dept.

ColdWetDog writes "Remember the Agent.BTZ worm that caused significant problems at military installations back in 2008? Now, three years after what the Pentagon called the most significant breach of US military networks ever, new versions of the malware blamed for the attack are still roiling US networks."

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  1. Proprietary hardware by Trilobyte · · Score: 4, Funny

    The government should go back to running on DEC Alphas and Data General mainframes. Mark Microsoft technology as export-only.

  2. Re:Ratcheting the fear for the masses by Charliemopps · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The government grants themselves even more power to circumvent the constitution while passing legislation absolving businesses from any legal mandate to secure themselves from what is clearly an unstoppable army of cyber criminals?