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Originally Posted by octothorp
I don't really have any stories about viruses, but as far as hoaxes and such... I was working for a large multinational corporation, and one morning, this email about 'free trips to disneyland, send to everyone you know' starts making the rounds. This was back in the mid 90's, when everyone had email but there wasn't a high degree of computer literacy. But people start sending this to everyone in their departments, and I personally received it from about 30 different people that morning. Of course, there were some people who realized that this was a hoax, and starting emailing everyone in their department to tell them not to forward the message. I received about another 10 emails to that effect. By mid-afternoon, the entire company-wide email system had been overloaded and ground to a halt. A few years later I was talking to an IT guy about this, and he said that the volume of emails sent per-capita that day was far beyond any other single day the company has experienced. Just completely overwhelmed their system. And it had nothing to do with a virus, just a lot of gullible people.
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There still isnt a high degree.
Back when Katrina hit someone sent out an email (basically a sob thing) and so people reply, but they dont reply to the sender but to everyone soe basically about 250 people sent an email to everyone in the company within 5 minutes, yah that killed the Exchange server.
Comp users who dont know better are normally far worse than an external malicaious hacker. I have been with this company for a few years now and that stuff is far worse than hackers. The only "hackers" we have had per say are certain sites where someoen has started a torrent shop and those sites are down, nothing major though. I dont work for anyone too big, under 7K employees so we arent that big of a target.
On average we get about 38 different hits on the external link in Canada, mosrly people testing ports and the like, most are from Germany, some Korea, China is very rare although the Korean machines may be being used as bots - who knows.
Last month a few from the same C subnet in Korea got into the DMZ but the dummy machine tied them up for over a day (virtual domain setup so they probably thought that they were actually accessing servers and the like.
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