French Fighter Planes Grounded by Computer Virus

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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Via The Telegraph.

[snip]

The aircraft were unable to download their flight plans after databases
were infected by a Microsoft virus they had already been warned about
several months beforehand.

At one point French naval staff were also instructed not to even open their
computers.

Microsoft had warned that the "Conficker" virus, transmitted through
Windows, was attacking computer systems in October last year, but according
to reports the French military ignored the warning and failed to install
the necessary security measures.

The French newspaper Ouest France said the virus had hit the internal
computer network at the French Navy.

Jérome Erulin, French navy spokesman told the paper: "It affected
exchanges of information but no information was lost. It was a security
problem we had already simulated. We cut the communication links that could
have transmitted the virus and 99 per cent of the network is safe."

However, the French navy admitted that during the time it took to eradicate
the virus, it had to return to more traditional forms of communication:
telephone, fax and post.

[snip]

More:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/4547649/French-figh
ter-planes-grounded-by-computer-virus.html

- - ferg

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