"A digital virus featuring hardcore gay pornography shut down the computers of the upper house of the Italian Senate late Monday. According to media reports, the worm slipped through the Senate's firewall, ensuring that no staffer could access his or her computer without being confronted with images of gay sex. Efforts to cleanse the Senate's computers of the virus continued through Tuesday... The attack followed the firing of Dario Mattiello, an assistant to the upper house's vice president, after photographs of him at a gay nightclub in Rome were distributed."