Thought I might share some interesting news :eek:
A virus designed to swipe passwords from online gamers has inexplicably popped up in some laptop computers aboard the international space station.
The low-risk virus was detected on July 25, but did not infect the space station's command and control computers and poses no threat to the orbiting laboratory, NASA officials said.
"This is basically a nuisance," NASA spokesperson Kelly Humphries told SPACE.com from the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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A virus designed to swipe passwords from online gamers has inexplicably popped up in some laptop computers aboard the international space station.
The low-risk virus was detected on July 25, but did not infect the space station's command and control computers and poses no threat to the orbiting laboratory, NASA officials said.
"This is basically a nuisance," NASA spokesperson Kelly Humphries told SPACE.com from the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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