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Britain's Newest Warship Runs Windows XP, Raising Cyber Attack Fears (telegraph.co.uk)
Chrisq shares a report from The Telegraph: Fears have been raised that Britain's largest ever warship could be vulnerable to cyber attacks after it emerged it appears to be running the outdated Microsoft Windows XP. A defense source told The telegraph that some of the on-board hardware and software "would have been good in 2004" when the carrier was designed, "but now seems rather antiquated." However, he added that HMS Queen Elizabeth is due to be given a computer refit within a decade. And senior officers said they will have cyber specialists on board to defend the carrier from such attacks.
Tell that to the Iranians.
Their centrifuges were not attached to the Internet. Physical security. But Stuxnet got them anyway.