Viruses invade Japan's space agency

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Information about a cargo-transportation program for the International Space Station (ISS) may have been leaked from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) after it was discovered that one of its computers was infected with two viruses.

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Tokyo, we have a problem : by CleanBytes.net: http://cleanbytes.net/tokyo-we-have-a-problem

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'It’s often in today’s connected world that we hear of servers, networks, and individual computers hacked into or that have picked up some malware. Mostly it tends to deal with money, banks, and financial houses.

Ever so often it deals with cyber-espionage and attempts to steal technological and trade secrets. Years of research stolen over a few months or years, depending on how good the hack was. One has to ask ones’ self, who would benefit? Who needs to know this info and maybe doesn’t have it and sees stealing it as the quicker way to obtain it? What real world consequences could such actions have?

As for who would benefit, those not in the loop of the JAXA (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency) would probably be the most likely candidates, Russia, China, even possibility the US or India.'
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