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Nasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG. The worm was first detected on Earth in August 2007 and lurks on infected machines waiting to steal login names for popular online games. Nasa ...

Computer viruses make it to orbit - BBC News

At least two laptops aboard the International Space Station had a virus that was eventually eliminated using virus protection software and didn't pose a threat to the ISS, NASA confirmed yesterday. The virus simply was a "nuisance" more than an ...

Just a "nuisance" but still possible cause for alarm - DailyTech

The worm, believed to be W32.Gammima.AG , steals personal information used to play online games from infected computers and then attempts to send the information back to a remote computer, according to SpaceRef.com, which broke the news on Monday

Space virus infects orbiting laptops - ZDNet Australia

Samsung Electronics on Wednesday unveiled a new and notably slimmer solid-state drive (SSD) to be used in laptop computers. The company's latest data storage device, named "Half Slim," comes in 8-, 16- and 32-gigabyte formats, and will be mass ...

Samsung Unveils Slimmer SSDs for Laptops - Telecoms Korea

Computer viruses —the scourge of technology on Earth—have now become a problem in space, too. NASA has confirmed that laptops infected with the Gammima.AG virus were ferried to the International Space Station last month. The possible source ...

Game-playing astronauts infect NASA computers with virus - Scientific American

No two industries appear more dissimilar than those of PCs and fashion. One has long been marketed on style, the other on function. One is dominated by female consumers, the other by male buyers. Yet the shelf life of high-end tech gear is as ...

Scented, other 'fashion' PCs hit the catwalk - Reseller

Dell reported surprisingly strong quarterly earnings Thursday, a sign that the computer giant is finally turning itself around. The No. 2 PC maker reported revenue of $16.1 billion in the quarter ended May 2, up 9% from $14.7 billion a year ago. Wall ...

Dell posts profit, revenue gains as laptop, international sales surge - USA Today

Using a genealogy workshop in an unlikely place, the Walla Walla County Rural Library District debuted a flock of new computers ready to expand Internet access to outlying communities.

Rural Library District laptops spread reach of Web - Walla Walla Union-Bulletin

The space station's operations have not been affected – Nasa described the infection as nothing more than a "nuisance" - but an investigation has been launched into how security systems were breached. W32.Gammima.AG is a worm virus that was first ...

Computer virus infects International Space Station laptops - Daily Telegraph

Cash. Computers. Conditioning. These are just three of the things that have radically changed the world of an NFL head coach in the past three decades. It’s not your father’s NFL, a point Raiders head coach Lane Kiffin — whose father Monte is a ...