Is there ANY reason for this information to be made public?
In my world, once you were aware of the problem you would take steps to fix it, identify the source of the virus and institute procedures to keep this from happening in the future but you most certainly don't tell the world about the problem unless there is an ulterior motive.
I am wondering the same thing. Kind of like putting a sign on your house that someone stole all of your guns and ammo and that your vicious dog died. Sometimes silence is a good idea.
The story is significant, or was placed to get Wired site hits, or is total BS.
If this story has any military significance, it was put there by our military. If it has political significance, it was put there by politicians. Who on earth would want to discredit the finest military on the planet? Buehler, anyone?
Hell, our commander in chief is good buds with the black panthers and former weathermen terrorists, the white house is funding the communist 99 rallies, the atf is giving guns to drug cartels, the economy is intentionally in the crapper, and Wired publishes this? Right.
I vote BS, irrespective of the original source.