According to Al Jazeera, "US drones have been infected by a logging virus.The infection could allow hackers to access intelligence gathered by the unmanned aerial vehicles.
Analysts say that the keystroke logging virus, in theory, could allow hackers to monitor activities of drone operators.
Wired magazine, which broke the story on Friday, said the problem was first detected nearly two weeks ago by the US military's Host-Based Security System, but there were no confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source.
Military network security specialists said it remained unclear whether the virus was intentional and how far it had spread, but they were certain it had infected Creech's classified and unclassified machines.
The virus has also resisted multiple efforts to remove it from the base's computer systems.
"We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back," a source familiar with the network infection told the magazine.
As a precautionary measure, military drone units at other US Air Force bases have been instructed to stop using them."
Hackers have mastered their craft with remarkable creativity. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. (Newton's Third Law). A force is a push or a pull upon an object that results from its interaction with another object. Forces result from interactions!
The push and pull is the 'I get in - you push me out' and so it has been going on with the good guys vs the bad guys in our world.
The more population in the world, the more devious minds plot against the rest of us.
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