Greetings from Toronto, Canada.
While arriving yesterday to this marvelous city, I was informed that Arguelles' west coast computer network had been hacked or bugged. Immediately I thought - wow us too? Let us consider last week wasn't a very pleasant one in tech news. Several entities had been broken into: Sony, Gmail, FBI, Nintendo... now us?! WTF? right?
Although, it may not be as severe as others, this can still bring most of our operations to an undesirable halt. In this day and age, everything is done or handled by computers; Arguelles is no exception. Let me break it down for you in a simple way. Only in our west coast division we have an interconnected net of 30 computers, 4 of them are pricey studio equipment valued @ 100K each, which are used to make CGI and special effects works. Can you see our dilemma? Really wasn't happy upon hearing this had gone down.
Based on what I've heard it was a bug that locked itself and started using the servers to gain strength and spread itself on to the entire network, including external infrastructures. Don't you just love those little f*ckers? Technicians suggested this happened after someone opened an email and spread the virus from one computer to the next and so forth... the famous domino effect. We've already pinpointed exactly when and where this all started; which I really don't understand, since our security measures are quite high and systems frequently checked and upgraded. This was a very unpleasant incident nonetheless, which I'll be looking to resolve as soon as I get back to the US. I'm perplexed!
Thankfully, I've hired some of the best engineers and technicians to assist and maintain Arguelles and it's divisions. Happy to report everything is back to normal and systems fully operational. I salute you fellas, great job!
On a final note... now would be a good time to upgrade your PC settings and security software. Hackers/viruses are out on a mission to mess with everybody they can. Don't take news lightly. Cause it can happen to anyone; as we found out yesterday.
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