Man, I work from home for 1 day and all hell breaks loose. This all started yesterday:
QuoteA graduate student at the university emailed CBC to say the attackers have asked for payment in bitcoin, a digital currency that is difficult to trace. According to a message he saw on a school computer, the attackers are asking for either two bitcoin per machine, or 39 bitcoin total to release the encrypted files — the latter equalling nearly $38,941 at today's rate on the popular Bitcoin exchange Coinbase.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/ransomware-carleton-university-computers-bitcoin-infects-1.3872702
Now, the physics department, where I work, is on it's own network and email servers so we're not directly affected which is good. But it means we're told not to electronically communicate with the rest of the University until they get this figured out.....
So basically the physics department is the Battlestar Galactica of Carleton?
Quote from: bbmike on November 30, 2016, 10:38:05 AM
So basically the physics department is the Battlestar Galactica of Carleton?
:2funny:
better start watching youtube videos for bitcoins! :)
frakkin toasters!
Quote from: bbmike on November 30, 2016, 10:38:05 AM
So basically the physics department is the Battlestar Galactica of Carleton?
Yeah, that's it!
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Battlestar CUDoPh
Careful. Some of 'them' look like us. :coolsmiley:
Quote from: Sir Slash on November 30, 2016, 10:51:09 AM
Careful. Some of 'them' look like us. :coolsmiley:
Only much better more attractive.
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Yeah.... no one in physics looks like that..... :P
More like this...
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Quote from: Bison on November 30, 2016, 10:53:13 AM
Quote from: Sir Slash on November 30, 2016, 10:51:09 AM
Careful. Some of 'them' look like us. :coolsmiley:
Only much better more attractive.
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I'd join the toasters.
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I'd Frak that. If she didn't crush my skull afterward. Still might be worth it.
...your skull is the least of your worries.........