Saudi Aramco Reveals Cyber Attack Hit 30,000 Workstations

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 26, 2012 @09:00PM from the running-windows-for-workstations-I-guess dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil producer, has resumed operating its main internal computer networks after a virus infected about 30,000 of its workstations in mid-August. The group, calling itself the 'Cutting Sword of Justice,' claimed to have hacked Aramco systems in several countries before sending a virus across 30,000 computers, achieving a 75 percent infection rate of all the company's systems. It refuted suggestions that a nation state was behind the attack."

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android? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-26 21:15 · Score: 4, Insightful

am I missing something, why is this story tagged Android?
1. Re:android? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-26 21:19 · Score: 1, Insightful
  
  I guess they know the /. audience really well. They should have tagged it "android raspberry-pi 3dprinted bitcoin" if they really wanted people to see this story.
2. Re:android? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-26 21:23 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Forgot the assange. The /. audience gets a boner every time his name is mentioned.