A cyber-attack alarms the Pentagon
EDWARD LUCAS BATTLEFIELD bandwidth is low at best, making networks sticky and e-mails tricky. American soldiers often rely on memory sticks to cart vital data between computers. Off-duty, they use the same devices to move around music and photos. The dangers of that have just become apparent with the news that the Pentagon has banned the use of all portable memory devices because of the spread of a bit of malicious software called agent.btz.
(From The Economist print edition, Dec 4th 2008. For the complete article click on:
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