Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet

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Alright, which one of you idiots were surfing the pirate / porn sites at work again? Thanks to Rob W. and Tony for the link on this one.

The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech’s computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military’s most important weapons system.
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Now all the hacker needs is a flight stick and a keyboard to fly it and shoot the laser guided missle once virus get a hold of it.

Seriously Some of the more getto setups the army uses off the shelf flight sticks for PC games and game quailty keyboards and PC's you get 3 monitors, the ones they stuff in trucks can use 1 monitor to fly it but 3 is best.

The nicer ones have Custom built equipment but it still looks and works like a fucking flight stick you pay like $60 for at best buy and standard large monitors or large HDTV using ATI or nividas multi monitor modes.

a cheep flight stick like this would do the job and keybaord for auto pilot commands.

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OH and the special Drone system software that but since the goverment gets pwned all the time by hackers they might have it already.
 
Ummm WTF is there an OS suceptible to a virus running on drone aircraft??? Any aircraft for that matter. I presume it is Windows based since "they followed removal instructions posted on the website of the Kaspersky security firm". WHAT? That is mind boggling and pathetic.
 
The stuxnet guy has been jumping up and down waving his arms for near a year now...everyone is just so listless and apathetic, maybe we should just let the terrorists win
 
So they look up removal instructions from Kaspersky:

1) did they not have any antivirus software?

2) did they have it, but installed despite warnings


ROFL-DRONE!
 
Chances are they run old computers that run XP with all their new software because it costs a shit load of money for the govt to use anything built within last 10 years. Thanks contractors for bleeding us dry. Want to reduce the deficit? Reduce all govt contracts by 30% for 2 days...
 
jnmunsey said:
Ummm WTF is there an OS suceptible to a virus running on drone aircraft??? Any aircraft for that matter. I presume it is Windows based since "they followed removal instructions posted on the website of the Kaspersky security firm". WHAT? That is mind boggling and pathetic.
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EchoMatrix said:
Chances are they run old computers that run XP with all their new software because it costs a shit load of money for the govt to use anything built within last 10 years. Thanks contractors for bleeding us dry. Want to reduce the deficit? Reduce all govt contracts by 30% for 2 days...
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They do run Windows.... maybe not the software on the drones themselves, but the computers used to control them are Windows based unless that has changed in the last couple of years.

Pretty sure they are still running XP.. as as far as I know, they were against switching to Vista.. and I really doubt that they switched to 7 yet.

I can almost guarantee that they are running Dell machines.. not super old ones.. especially for projects like that either. Some of their equipment was pretty sweet last time I saw it when I did Dell warranty repair.
 
Cube said:
Now all the hacker needs is a flight stick and a keyboard to fly it and shoot the laser guided missle once virus get a hold of it.

Seriously Some of the more getto setups the army uses off the shelf flight sticks for PC games and game quailty keyboards and PC's you get 3 monitors, the ones they stuff in trucks can use 1 monitor to fly it but 3 is best.

The nicer ones have Custom built equipment but it still looks and works like a fucking flight stick you pay like $60 for at best buy and standard large monitors or large HDTV using ATI or nividas multi monitor modes.

a cheep flight stick like this would do the job and keybaord for auto pilot com
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One major difference between the off the shelf components and the govt ones - price. Govt probably pays 10x the retail cost (100x if it's a Halliburton contract). We haven't figured out that an exclusivity contract should reduce the cost per unit (bulk, guaranteed order) and not increase the cost.
 
But how can they get infected. Seriously how did they get a virus when they are using the awesome AVG free antivirus software with link checker. No way that couldve happen
 
Spooony said:
But how can they get infected. Seriously how did they get a virus when they are using the awesome AVG free antivirus software with link checker. No way that couldve happen
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Actually the Army uses Symantec Endpoint. Which is probably the reason they got a virus in the first place, as anything Symantec sucks horribly.
 
Yeah the company that reversed Stuxnet and missed 3 zero days which cause it hobble past their security again.
 
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