The Honey Stick Project

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Does NASA need to train astronauts about Honey Sticks?

Posted in Stories about Mobile Data Risks by Administrator on the August 29th, 2008

Thanks to Brian Honan (click HERE to view his site at BH Consulting) for noting The Honey Stick Project in this week’s SANS Newsbites newsletter (click HERE). Apparently, the virus infecting the NASA laptops brought aboard the International Space Station was a type of worm that usually spreads by way of infected mobile storage devices.

According to The Register (click HERE):

SpaceReg.com identified the infection as W32.TGammima.AG, a worm that spreads by copying itself to removable media devices. Once in place, it steals passwords to various online games, according to anti-virus software provider Symantec, which first spotted the worm 12 months ago.

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