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05/02/2009

Armies attacked by a virus

"For two weeks, the networks of the Ministry of Defense are infected by a virus that has stopped some weapons systems, such as the Rafale Marine, provides IntelligenceOnline. This crisis "scale" raises "serious questions about the safety of French military networks," said the confidential letter

The internal network of the Navy, intra was the first infected by the virus Conflicker [Conficker, according to Microsoft], January 12. Two days later, the staff decided to isolate intra other information systems, but some computers in the Villacoublay air base and the 8th Regiment of transmissions have been infected. On 15 and 16 January, the Navy Rafale "remained nailed to the ground" because they could download their flight parameters. They have subsequently used a different system.

Conflict virus had been identified by Microsoft as of fall 2008. In October, it had warned its customers of the need to make updates to guard. IntelligenceOnline provides that "within the armed forces, these changes have for the most part not been made." It was not until January 16, with three months of delay, for a first take place at the headquarters of the Navy.

"To date, the staff and the Department of Defense do not know how many computers and information systems military may have been contaminated by the virus Conflicker" - a worm that exploits a flaw Service "Server" Windows to duplicate. Good news, however, "Conflicker can not a priori to take control of a remote computer, which exclude the hypothesis of a concerted attack" against the computers of Defense. More than negligence, therefore, malicious. This is not necessarily more reassuring ...

Laurent Teisseire, spokesman for the Department of Defense, explained that "this is the start of curative processes leading to the cessation of the intra de la Marine" and not the action of the virus. According to the Ministry and contrary to what IntelligenceOnline, this case had no impact on operational activity, in particular flights Rafale. However, the virus has caused outages or slowdowns in the computers used for logistics.

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