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This paper provides insight into where fake antivirus comes from and how it is distributed, what happens when a system is infected with fake antivirus, and how to stop this persistent threat from infecting your network and your users.

Call it the cyber-attack that never happened. A false alarm that sent the Economic Development Agency scrambling. When the dust settled, the EDA had spent half of its information technology budget - or nearly $3 million - destroying hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of perfectly functioning computer equipment. Talk about using up your resources...literally.

What stood out to me was that they did not follow the incident handling procedure. Those documents are put together for a reason. I also question why there was not a manager to oversee the incident response for something of this size. I blame management for this one.

I agree with a better safe than sorry approach most of the time, but I have to agree with Bob that procedures weren't followed and equipment was unnecessarily destroyed.

Just a heads up on why I don't like biometric Authentication. It gets worse when used for Identification. I'll try to find a link

Glen, This did a little to damage fingerprint biometric technologies when it was first discussed in the public. I read the original article I think, when Matsumoto was using original gelatin to fake the scanners. There was also a documentary, or short news clip I had seen awhile back in which he demonstrated it. Newer technologies are starting to combine (multi-factor) authentication in order to gain access now, such as fingerprint and iris. This should help curb things like this, as well as stop the backdoor of username and password. phil