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Eikre posted:High-five him for us. High five him once he proves the backups are viable and can be restored. Having 3 hour old backups with a broken chain or missing data is still a full possibility. Test your backups everybody!
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Sirotan posted:KnowBe4 is a pretty cool service, I got approval for a year subscription just by mentioning the free test to my boss' boss. Now I have to come up with a way to force all my users to spend the time doing the training. If they fail, their access to email is removed until they take training.
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Arsten posted:We had a huge backstock of toner for a printer that was no longer made and our new printer didn't have a good supply of toner in, so we ran out. A user walked in to me gingerly transferring toner from a backstock cartridge into an empty cartridge for the current printer. I fix his problem and go on about my business. This makes me want to crack open the left over Xerox carts we have and toss them into our HVAC registers.
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Merijn posted:Welp, too late - apparently the whole office was getting these and someone clicked it. Started encrypting the network drives. Emergency shutdowns and full system scans ensued. That admin better be lauded as the hero he is. And public shaming for the person that started it all off.
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The whole television station got cryptowalled. Every computer. Every server. Every. Thing. Is encrypted. There are no backups. CE ignored his phone ringing all morning and had no clue. He walked into a shitstorm. The station is crippled and it's all his fault. He's apparently blaming me. 
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larchesdanrew posted:The whole television station got cryptowalled. 
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How did it nail every desktop, are they mounted as network drives? That sounds pretty intentional since I don't think crypto spreads it just locks up what it can as the payload to something else.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:This makes me want to crack open the left over Xerox carts we have and toss them into our HVAC registers. Change all the bulbs to UV before you do!
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larchesdanrew posted:The whole television station got cryptowalled. Yesssssssssssss. The guy is delusional if he is blaming you. He needs mental help lol.
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pixaal posted:How did it nail every desktop, are they mounted as network drives? That sounds pretty intentional since I don't think crypto spreads it just locks up what it can as the payload to something else. Best I can figure is that every computer has a central file server net shared to them. But the stupidest loving part is that nearly every computer is also net shared to the file server for some godforsaken reason. I'm going off of reports from my insider, but he says that every computer they've tried has something encrypted. I really want to see this in person. They called me and I could hear the GM raging in the background about "that worthless motherfucker" and I"m equally amused for that to be referring to the CE or me.
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larchesdanrew posted:The whole television station got cryptowalled. Sweet, sexy schadenfreude. Surely his precious Buffalo nas will save him!
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Raerlynn posted:Sweet, sexy schadenfreude. Bonus schadenfreude: After I left, no one was left to babysit them. They're all dead, Jim. All of them.
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That was just the awesome bit of news I needed to hear today for a late work pick me up. Did you hear him screaming about an Etherblast in the background? How many old IDE drives is he trying to dig out of his trash heap to replace everything with?
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larchesdanrew posted:Bonus schadenfreude: After I left, no one was left to babysit them. The fools! They filled them!
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larchesdanrew posted:The whole television station got cryptowalled. I wonder who clicked on the suspicious link. I bet it was the CE
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pr0digal posted:I wonder who clicked on the suspicious link. It was one of the reporters. She opened an email that said she had missed a court date. She literally just anchored a story about fake emails two days ago.
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larchesdanrew posted:There are no backups. So I think I missed this part of your saga, why are there no backups? Or did it simply not concern you? pixaal posted:The fools! They filled them!  One more edit: Does this mean the station is down? Surely they would have nearly 0 systems functional besides cameras and lights if none of the computers worked. Are there just reporters sitting in front of a green screen reading from cue cards?
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Judge Schnoopy posted:So I think I missed this part of your saga, why are there no backups? Or did it simply not concern you? CE wanted me to image every computer and server in the station on a single 1TB external. I told him I needed something larger and he never budged on buying anything. The graphics system is 17TB.
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larchesdanrew posted:CE wanted me to image every computer and server in the station on a single 1TB external. I told him I needed something larger and he never budged on buying anything. 
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I really want to watch their news broadcast tonight.
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KillHour posted:It's very likely that the stress from booting killed the power supply, which can kill other components when it goes. Me, because, again, university setting. This thing is still running XP, and that's because the scientific hardware connected to it (by serial or parallel port, I don't remember) doesn't work right with 7/8/10. If I hadn't gotten this one running, I'd have had to hook up one of the 2003 laptops that we have a pile of. And probably cycle those out every six months as their hard drives died. I may have ranted about this before, but scientific hardware support is seriously the worst because: - Everything was built to industrial standards and thus lasted to the point that it's old-as-balls before it gives out. - Professors have gotten used to using the same hardware for thirty years, they are often unwilling to replace it without expending weeks of effort replacing bearings and ordering circuit boards off ebay. - The company that made the thing has probably been bought out three times by now, so good luck finding a manual or a tech support person who has even heard of your product. - Getting any manufacturer in-person support is in the $1000/hour range. On the plus side, I have actually gotten a machine running by digging down to the bottom of it and finding where a wire fell / vibrated out of a hole. Never expected to experience that cliche in real life.
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Yeeeesss  I love happy endings.
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 CE is systematically restoring all the newsroom computers with the same two year old imageCountdown to counterfeit Windows errors in 3... 2..
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larchesdanrew posted:
I'm guessing said image is being deployed via external USB drive, one at a time?
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:I'm guessing said image is being deployed via external USB drive, one at a time? using a pirated version of Acronis TrueImage.
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I hope the drive fails mid way through the first reimage. Send in a EULA violation to acronis, see if they do anything.
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larchesdanrew posted:
Hey man, he's doing his best lol
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larchesdanrew posted:I really want to see this in person. edit: hm that sounded way less surly in my head, I need to step away from my queue for a while maybe. :P
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BaseballPCHiker posted:I hope the drive fails mid way through the first reimage. Let's not spoil this too early. Play it cool
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KoRMaK posted:Hey man, he's doing his best lol That's the problem! 
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Don't go unless they invite you and the invitation takes the form of boat money.
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Larches this is amazing. Keep the details coming.
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Tell them you'll only come in if you're the one that gets to tell the CE he's fired. Along with an obscene amount of money.
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Meanwhile we also had a crypto attack coming in today. Everything was quickly contained, warnings were sent to all users, and backups were restored. No significant damage, just some extra support burden on reimaging any desktops infected.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Tell them you'll only come in if you're the one that gets to tell the CE he's fired. Along with an obscene amount of money. At this point if there's no backups, is there anything he can even do? Other than buying bitcoins, that is.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Tell them you'll only come in if you're the one that gets to tell the CE he's fired. Along with an obscene amount of money. At this rate, the CE won't be fired, he'll just be out of a job on account of there being no station anymore
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larchesdanrew posted:They called me and I could hear the GM raging in the background about "that worthless motherfucker" and I"m equally amused for that to be referring to the CE or me. I assume you told them to gently caress off.
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Brut posted:At this point if there's no backups, is there anything he can even do? Other than buying bitcoins, that is. Build a new, non-lovely infrastructure from the ground up? Assuming the station can even afford the losses and doesn't have to close up business.
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nielsm posted:Build a new, non-lovely infrastructure from the ground up? Oh at this point it looks like the chances of him being brought in even for some kind of emergency triage/damage control are pretty low due to their stubbornness, I just figured the money for him to actually rebuild everything just doesn't exist.
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