Reuters reports
South Korean authorities have found evidence that a low-risk computer "worm" had been removed from devices connected to some nuclear plant control systems, but no harmful virus was found in reactor controls threatened by a hacker.
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co Ltd said it would beef up cyber security by hiring more IT security experts and forming an oversight committee, as it came in for fresh criticism from lawmakers following recent hacks against its headquarters.
The nuclear operator, part of state-run utility Korea Electric Power Corp, said earlier this month that non-critical data had been stolen from its systems, while a hacker threatened in Twitter messages to close three reactors.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by mendax on Wednesday December 31 2014, @05:26PM
Read it here [theregister.co.uk] as well with much better pictures.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Wednesday December 31 2014, @05:56PM
You can't hug with nuclear arms, and you can't ride into battle for control of the known universe on nuclear worms.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 31 2014, @07:16PM
First they find fungi in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and now a worm in south Korean plants. What's next? Sharks?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday December 31 2014, @07:44PM
It's a nuclear plant. Mutant ninja sharks with friggin' LASERS!!
I will note that the powers that be have carefully refrained from telling us how those worms and fungi may have mutated.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday December 31 2014, @08:06PM
Well, I *assume* that this was a computer worm rather than a biological one, but, FWIW, cockroaches have been found eating the insulation on running US nuclear piles.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday December 31 2014, @09:52PM
Glowing Brazilians [wikipedia.org] and beer yeast [researchgate.net] (the examples aren't in the future, though)
The above to show that even humans may survive high doses of radiation in certain conditions [wikipedia.org] (Devair Ferreira survived after 7 Gy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by FunkyLich on Thursday January 01 2015, @01:47PM
I wonder, would the radiation mutated humans, who survive in high radiation conditions, be able to breed with the normal humans? Or will they effectively be a new biological species, worthy of being called "Homo Radiantis"? Maybe in a future, their text books would contain excerpts like: "Homo Sapiens was a species of the Hominid group which was intelligent enough to give birth to civilisation and modern technology, but not enough to sanction their own greed and power hunger. They were unable to see and stop the avalanche effect of the same technology they invented which in the end brought to their demise and extinction."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 31 2014, @10:44PM
http://xkcd.com/1022/ [xkcd.com]?