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Worms Turn on Military Networks

Nov 30, 2003 2:29AM PST
A wave of destructive worms in recent months has focused attention on the potential vulnerability of military networks to malicious computer attacks.

A wave of destructive worms in recent months has focused attention on the potential vulnerability of the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) and other military networks to malicious computer attacks.

In particular, the Blaster, SoBig, Welchia and other worms have spurred concerns among many analysts about the unintended security consequences of the overwhelming worldwide use of and increasing military reliance on the software products of a single company, Microsoft. The attacks resulted in the most expensive year ever in terms of malicious code damages.

http://www.mit-kmi.com/articles.cfm?DocID=286

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