Investigation indicates trojan contributed to 2008 Spainair crash

Troy Tate — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:32:01 +0000

El Pais reports that a Spainair computer which tracks airplane maintenance and problem issues was infected by malicious software (trojans) that prevented it from operating properly. The computer should alarm when three failures happen on particular or related components. In this case, the trojan malware caused the computer to run so slowly that maintenance technicians were unable to file reports. So, maybe lack of speed can kill too!

This keeps us support folks ever mindful of maintaining robust secure systems that are capable of doing the required job. I wonder how much attention the IT support staff at Spainair will have now that this report has been released.

What do you think should happen to the IT support staff? How do US airlines handle client computer security to prevent a similar event from happening? Leave your comments for other ITKE readers. Thanks for reading & let’s continue to be good network citizens!

Did you see this? – SYSTEM CLEANING: GETTING RID OF MALWARE FROM INFECTED PCS

Troy Tate — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:24:10 +0000

I don’t know about you but I do get frustrated when a white paper is advertised and it has little or no meat to it. Most times it seems like the whitepapers offered by vendors today are light marketing fluff with little substance to help IT folks do their job better.

I came across a whitepaper/research document today that will help you do your job better if you manage systems that may become affected by malware. This means anyone that uses a computer could get some use from this document and website.

Check it out today. The whitepaper does not require any registration (another pet peeve of mine – check out bugmenot for Firefox if registrations bug you too!). The whitepaper is titled SYSTEM CLEANING: GETTING
RID OF MALWARE FROM INFECTED PCS.

Thanks for reading and let’s continue to be good network citizens.

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Investigation indicates trojan contributed to 2008 Spainair crash

Did you see this? – SYSTEM CLEANING: GETTING RID OF MALWARE FROM INFECTED PCS