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Royal Navy completes Windows for Submarines™ rollout
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| Initial reports as the programme developed suggested that the OS in question
| would be Windows 2000, but those who have worked on it have since informed
| the Reg that in fact it is mostly based on XP.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/16/windows_for_submarines_rollout/
Related:
US Navy malware infection risked submarine prang
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| Richard F Sylvestre, from Massachusetts, installed malware on a
| computer network at the Italian HQ of the US 6th Fleet, America's
| standing taskforce in the Mediterranean.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/18/sub_traffic_malware_aliens_likelier/
Crash strike caution
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| If Microsoft's Windows operating system crashes and gives you the "blue
| screen of death", it's a pain in the proverbial, but it's hardly
| life-threatening. In 1998, however, a United States Navy destroyer, the
| USS Yorktown, was left stranded and vulnerable when its Windows
| NT-based control system failed.
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| In fact, such networking could be a security risk. Western nations are
| becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyber-attack from hostile nations,
| terrorist groups and criminal syndicates, and an increasing reliance in
| civilian technologies by intelligence and military agencies is having an
| adverse effect on national security.
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/security/crash-strike-caution/2007/04/09/1175971018555.html
Zombies infiltrate US military networks
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| Support Intelligence, the firm whose research on honeynets revealed that
| the networks of at least 28 Fortune 1000 companies contained
| malware-infected spam-spewing PCs, has found evidence of bots running
| behind military networks.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/16/military_botnet/
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