Time Bomb May Have Destroyed 800 Norfolk City PCs' Data

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @07:20AM from the philadelphia-experiment dept.

krebsonsecurity writes "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. The incident is still under investigation, but city officials say the attack may have been the result of a computer time bomb planted in advance by an insider or employee and designed to trigger at a specific date, according to krebsonsecurity.com. 'We don't believe it came in from the Internet. We don't know how it got into our system,' the city's IT director said. 'We speculate it could have been a time bomb waiting until a date or time to trigger. Whatever it was, it essentially destroyed these machines.'"

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Just so you get the pronunciation right... by Overzeetop · 2010-02-17 07:23 · Score: 5, Funny

It's Naw-Fuck.
And it's nowhere near as embarrassing as how we pronounce Buena Vista.

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Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
1. Re:Just so you get the pronunciation right... by xaxa · 2010-02-17 08:04 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  It's Naw-Fuck.
  In proper Norfolk... well, I'll let Wikipedia explain: More cutting, perhaps, was the pejorative medical slang term "Normal for Norfolk", referencing the county's supposedly high rate of incest. In truth, Norfolk's incest rate is no higher than the rest of England. The term is now discredited, and its use is discouraged by the profession.
  (Sorry, did you want an on-topic comment?)