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German Parliament May Need To Replace All Hardware and Software To Stop Malware
jfruh writes: Trojan spyware has been running on computers in the German parliament for over four weeks, sending data to an unknown destination; and despite best efforts, nobody's been able to remove it. The German government is seriously considering replacing all hardware and software to get rid of it. From the ITWorld article: "After the attack, part of the parliament’s traffic was routed over the federal government’s more secure data network by the Federal Office For Information Security, Der Spiegel reported. Some Germans suspect that the Russian foreign intelligence service SVR is behind the attack. On Thursday, the parliament will discuss how to address the situation."
No computers in 1945....
Phew...I was worried for a moment it might have been the USA. Good to know they are limiting themselves to only tapping Merkels phone.
If you explain the situation, the NSA would be glad to give you some free computers for your parliament.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
They'll probably outlaw trojans infecting government PCs and that solves the issue.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
So they downloaded the GIMP from Sourceforge I see.