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International Space Station Infected With Malware Carried By Russian Astronauts

Posted by samzenpus on from the click-here-if-you-want-air dept.

DavidGilbert99 writes "Nowhere is safe. Even in the cold expanse of space, computer malware manages to find a way. According to Russian security expert Eugene Kaspersky, the SCADA systems on board the International Space Station have been infected by malware which was carried into space on USB sticks by Russian astronauts."

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  1. Oh, the irony... by nospam007 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Skynet transported into space by sneakernet.

    1. Re:Oh, the irony... by girlintraining · · Score: 3, Funny

      Okay that's going to cause some confusion, because in Soviet Russia, vacuum sucks you.

      That's nothing. In Soviet America internet browses you! And apparently Soviet Britain too, given the post earlier today. :\

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    2. Re:Oh, the irony... by imikem · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sure, go and inject reason and logic to a perfectly good paranoid rant. I hope you're proud of yourself.

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    3. Re:Oh, the irony... by MachineShedFred · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wait, are you saying that a computer virus can't stop lithium hydroxide from chemically absorbing CO2?

      What a shitty virus.

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    4. Re:Oh, the irony... by drcheap · · Score: 3, Funny

      "...where even without internet access, malware can infect systems..."

      What a preposterous thought! There is absolutely no way a virus could spread to other computers without ... The Internet!

  2. In space.... by cold+fjord · · Score: 5, Funny

    They say that in space nobody can hear you scream, but I'll bet they can hear you curse. #$%@#$%!!! MALWARE!!!!

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  3. Re:Linux... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    A Commodore 64.

  4. Awesome! by mythosaz · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't be the first guy to read this today and go, "Seriously? We infected computers on the ISS? That's freakin' awesome."

    1. Re:Awesome! by GodfatherofSoul · · Score: 5, Funny

      We?

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  5. The article says cosmonauts with USB stick... by clickety6 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... I say Hiller and Levinson with an Apple Macintosh Powerbook 5300!

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  6. Re:A Victory for Mass Consumerism! by bobbied · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sure they can *order* stuff, it's just the *delivery* charges are out of this world.

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  7. Re:WTF? by hannson · · Score: 3, Funny

    What do you mean? An African or European swallow?

  8. So... Space Porn? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So... Space Porn?