IP: NATO creates computer virus that reveals its secrets: Risks Digest 20.93

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 12:31:38 -0400
>From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
>Subject: NATO creates computer virus that reveals its secrets
>
>Bungling NATO scientists have created a computer virus "by mistake", causing
>military secrets to find their way onto the internet.  The virus, called
>Anti-Smyser 1, was created by scientists at NATO'S Kfor peacekeeping force
>headquarters in Pristina, Kosovo.  They were seeking protection from virus
>attacks similar to those launched at NATO by the Serbs during the Kosovo
>conflict.  But the experiment went wrong, and scientists accidentally
>unleashed the virus on themselves.  The virus, which plucks documents from
>the hard drives of computers and sends invisible attachments to e-mails,
>recently resurfaced at the Czech ministry of defence.
>http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/06/18/stinwenws01024.html