The City of Norfolk, Virginia is reeling from a massive computer meltdown in which an unidentified family of malicious code destroyed data on nearly 800 computers citywide. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
800 Virginia PCs Destroyed By Possible ‘Time Bomb’
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The City of Norfolk, Virginia is reeling from a massive computer meltdown in which an unidentified family of malicious code destroyed data on nearly 800 computers citywide. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
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An infosec professional that considers operating system file deletion to be a destroyed PC? There *is* a difference between OS and the machine it is running on, you know.
What part is being replaced? The OS, or the whole PC? If the PC is destroyed, I will happily take all 800 of them off your hands. The article is clearly written for the news, and little of the reality of what occurred.