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Windows Virus Takes Out Gov't Agencies in MD, PA
Zolzar writes "Looks like the Md. State Motor Vehicles Administration is the first government agency reporting a failure of their systems due to the recent virus." This is a more specific story about the outage. And the city of Philadelphia has suffered as well.
Does this mean those chickens are finally coming home to roost?
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
So, he is an asshold who did this in order to eat SAN's asshole.
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Roses are #FF0000, Violets are #0000FF, find / -name '*base*' |xargs chown -R us && mv zig greatjustice
The Boss came in gthis morning with his laptop and guess what we found on it....that's right....blaster! luckily we got it b4 it hit anything too hard but it shows that you can take all the internal precautions and still get caught out by someone plugging after a few days off site. matty.
I hate to have to say this to you guys, but the only reason Microsoft is having all these exploits published for their OS is the fact that they controll most of the market share!
If linux starts to become prolific, you know what? People are going to start looking harder for worms and I can guarentee you that the same amount will start coming out for that OS.
I'm going to have to sit on the other side of the fence for this one boys and girls. I don't think that this shows that Microsoft's OS's suck, it just shows that they are the best target.
Although "everything off" is good, "everything uninstalled" is better.
One of the things I like about my little Gentoo box is I don't even have the telnet and ftp daemons on disk, let alone open to hacker attack.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak