Malware: More Than an Annoyance
Usually, we just think of malware being an annoyance - costing us time, or perhaps money. Seems it can be much, much worse:
Authorities investigating the 2008 crash of Spanair flight 5022 have discovered a central computer system used to monitor technical problems in the aircraft was infected with malware. An internal report issued by the airline revealed the infected computer failed to detect three technical problems with the aircraft, which if detected, may have prevented the plane from taking off, according to reports in the Spanish newspaper, El Pais. Flight 5022 crashed just after takeoff from Madrid-Barajas International Airport two years ago today, killing 154 and leaving only 18 survivors.
That's a whole lot more serious than a spam spewing PC bot. Wow. Just... wow.
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