US Army bans USB devices to stop worm from spreading
The US Army has temporarily banned the use of USB devices, along with floppy discs, CDs, external drives, flash media cards and all other removable media devices, to prevent a worm from spreading through its networks. According to the Register, the worm that caused this extreme measure is Agent-BTZ, a variant of the SillyFDC worm.
While the ban itself is bound to cause some distress, as it would in any other organization, the work flow will be more extensively affected in the US Army because for some offices email or online file transfers are not allowed either.
The measure is a bit drastic, but at least something was done. I personally would have expected a safer endpoint security system and protected USB drives, given the Army’s impressive history with lost hardware and data breaches (see some examples here, here and here). Who knows, maybe this time they will learn 
