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Some security stories relate to fairly harmless issues, but this one might go well beyond "whoops." It seems that LIGNex1 and Hyundai Heavy Industries, two Korean companies that construct things for the military, have had malicious code planted within their computer systems.So you know the (potential) scale of the problem: LIGNex1 deals with missiles, radar, and communications systems. Hyundai Heavy Industries is the world's largest shipbuilder. And it was the National Security Research Institute that found the malicious code. This sounds like the start of some near-apocalypse novel by Tom Clancy, right? As for who planted the code, how they did it, and what files were affected, details are scarce right now. Chalk it up to government secrecy or (and this is a slightly scarier possibility) true ignorance at the same level. Anyway, as reported by SC Magazine UK, a National Security Research Institute representative said, "The research institute suspects the culprits are Chinese or

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