Next time you have a go at someone for not having any Anti virus or Firewall or ANY KIND OF PROTECTION AT ALL on their computers, maybe you should have ago at those at NASA first! YES, even those rocket scientists need us geek’s to secure their computers!

NASA admitted that laptops that were on the ISS in July were infected with a well known virus Gammima.AG, which was detected in 2007! Seriously guys, what’s going on? You can fly above our heads, and yet you run no Anti Virus of any kind?

Hang about, NASA continues to say this isn’t the first time a computer virus has been into space! They have never been anything but a “nuisance” according to NASA.

So what does this virus actually do? Lets find out.

According to the BBC, the worm is used to capture login names and passwords from 10  common games from Japan, including Maple Story, HuangYI Online and Talesweaver. All three of these games looked a bit childish, (no seriously, google image them!) So boy do we have one sad hacker script kiddy out there. After a bit of digging, I found its called Worm.Win32.AutoRun.bhx by Kaspersky (My favourite AV IS). They list all 10 of the games, however finding images of these games was a bit difficult.

Anyway, the virus would create its own autorun.inf on all drives, edit a few registry keys to hide itself, create an auto run, and monitor for the games processes to load, injecting upon finding.

NASA state that they are trying to work out how the virus got onto one of the laptops, as they only access a private network, plus all the data is scanned both ways. Hum. Lets do some investigation work for them. If it wasn’t via the network, then a USB. Find out which of the astronauts has young children, although not that young. I have to admit, I did try maple story for a while. I had way WAY to much free time then!

So, have you heard anything funny like this happened to big organisations? Any advice for NASA? I think were now qualified to advise them, what do you think?

Via [BBC]