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Hey guys,
I felt this was something that I should post up about and just remind everyone. Yesterday at 2:30pm EST, the company I work for had their infrastructure entirely crippled due to a virus outbreak in the network. While I believe only a few desktop machines were effected, I think those few comps basically performed an internal denial of service attack (sending massive amounts of data as quickly as possible) which overwhelmed our switches and firewall and shut everything external to a halt. We're a nationwide company, and when our external internet access was crippled, so too was the ability for our satellite offices to communicate with our corporate servers, effectively shutting them all down.
Just wanted to reiterate to everyone here because of the devistating potential of a misguided click, never never open an attachment in an e-mail that is coming to you unsolicited. Even if you recognize the sender, if you didn't ASK for the attachment, DON'T open it. The simple mistake of opening an unsolicited attachment that turns out to be a virus can bring down even the most secure, advanced, and protected networks. Our network system here at my office is NOT by any means weak -- we have multiple redundancies, multiple intrusion detection systems, firewalls, anti-virus servers, etc all in place to ensure things like this doesn't happen but this virus was so powerful it knocked it all down in a snap.
Be safe, be smart, be virus free.
I felt this was something that I should post up about and just remind everyone. Yesterday at 2:30pm EST, the company I work for had their infrastructure entirely crippled due to a virus outbreak in the network. While I believe only a few desktop machines were effected, I think those few comps basically performed an internal denial of service attack (sending massive amounts of data as quickly as possible) which overwhelmed our switches and firewall and shut everything external to a halt. We're a nationwide company, and when our external internet access was crippled, so too was the ability for our satellite offices to communicate with our corporate servers, effectively shutting them all down.
Just wanted to reiterate to everyone here because of the devistating potential of a misguided click, never never open an attachment in an e-mail that is coming to you unsolicited. Even if you recognize the sender, if you didn't ASK for the attachment, DON'T open it. The simple mistake of opening an unsolicited attachment that turns out to be a virus can bring down even the most secure, advanced, and protected networks. Our network system here at my office is NOT by any means weak -- we have multiple redundancies, multiple intrusion detection systems, firewalls, anti-virus servers, etc all in place to ensure things like this doesn't happen but this virus was so powerful it knocked it all down in a snap.
Be safe, be smart, be virus free.
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