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Re: Fw: [IP] Malware kills 154

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Mon Aug 23 11:51:00 2010

From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, perry@piermont.com
In-Reply-To: <20100823105631.26041689@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:11:13 +1200

"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> forwards:

> "Authorities investigating the 2008 crash of Spanair flight 5022
> have discovered a central computer system used to monitor technical
> problems in the aircraft was infected with malware...."
>
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38790670/ns/technology_and_science-security/?gt1=43001

Sigh, yet another attempt to use the "dog ate my homework" of computer
problems, if their fly-by-wire was Windows XP then they had bigger things to
worry about than malware.

Peter.

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