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'FedEx and UPS have ground to a complete standstill today due to what they say is a virus in their logistics shipping software
p. 21.9

virus = a type of software that spreads without invitation between computers and causes damage to data and software
The Chinese are denying responsibility, but the bigger issue now is the Scramble virus that has infected logistics systems—
p. 39.9 *
The virus that had shut down FedEx and UPS had shifted gears to infect almost every other commercial shipping software, grinding the world's supply chain to a halt.
p. 40.1
They're saying that UPS and FedEx are proprietary systems, and that the speed of the virus means it must have hundreds of unique 'zero-days' in it.
p. 40.1
Stuxnet, the virus that had taken down the Iranian nuclear processing plants, had used about ten zero-days to get inside the systems it attacked.
p. 41.1
'Breaking news—reports of an outbreak of bird flu virus have just been reported from Connecticut area hospitals—
p. 44.3 *

virus = tiny germ that causes disease by taking over cells
With the internet down and this Scramble virus messing with logistics, nobody knows where anyone is or what they should be doing.
p. 52.1

virus = a type of software that spreads without invitation between computers and causes damage to data and software
They sent a 21 —line package of software code from a thousand miles away, embedded as a virus in an email, into a DOE facility that caused an electrical generator to self-destruct by rapidly recycling its circuit breakers.
p. 108.3
Some hackers in the East Village figured out a way to upload the mesh software wirelessly, and it's really gone viral now.
p. 192.1 *

viral = spreading rapidly
the Iranian Ashiyane hacking group is now claiming responsibility for the Scramble virus that brought down logistics systems, with the Ashiyane group saying they initiated
p. 231.9

virus = a type of software that spreads without invitation between computers and causes damage to data and software
As we'd heard on the radio what seemed a lifetime ago, at the start of the third week of the CyberStorm, the Ashiyane group had claimed that they'd released the Scramble virus to attack logistics systems.
p. 333.6
They'd announced that the Scramble virus was retaliation for the Stuxnet and Flame cyberweapons that the United States had unleashed against Iran.
p. 333.6
On CNN they're saying it's a virus or something.†
p. 36.9
A virus?†
p. 36.9
It's a new virus, right?†
p. 40.3
I don't know, what's the proper reaction when a deadly virus is announced?†
p. 44.8
The mesh network had gone viral.†
p. 168.6
People are just sharing it now—it's going viral by itself.†
p. 184.2
It was a month before they confirmed that the radar reports were artifacts from a viral infection of the air force radar computer systems at McChord Field.†
p. 342.7

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Definitions:

(1) (virus as in: Covid 19 virus)
a tiny infectious agent that causes disease by invading living cells and using them to make more copies of itself

Although viruses contain genetic material, they can only reproduce by hijacking the reproductive machinery of a cell they invade.
(2) (virus as in: computer virus)
a type of software that spreads without invitation between computers and causes damage to data and software

Computer viruses are so-named because like a biological virus, they contain instructions on how to reproduce, but require the infected computer to actually execute the instructions.
(3) (viral as in: it went viral)
spreading rapidly and widely -- especially through the internet or social media
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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