Fortunately, it doesn’t seem to be too serious.
With the U.S. battling to contain the coronavirus outbreak, a cyberattack hit the Department of Health and Human Services on Saturday, Bloomberg reports.
Citing three people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported that the attack aimed to slow down the department’s computers, but did not have any meaningful impact.
On Sunday night, the National Security Council tweeted that text message rumors of a national quarantine are fake. “There is no national lockdown.
@CDCgov has and will continue to post the latest guidance on #COVID19,” it tweeted.
Fox News has reached out to the Department of Health and Human Services with a request for comment on this story.
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I think those messages might have been what my friend’s family were so upset about.
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Paranoia’s starting to run out there, my GDIL texted me because she was seeing ‘unusual’ aircraft activity at the local airfield. I told her not to worry until she sees troops in the streets. On second thought as she lives nearby a Navy SeaBee training base and astate Air National Guard base that might not have been the best suggestion.
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Wow, some country’s hackers are really advanced.
Would love to know how one hacks an IBM 360 running EBCDIC through coax CAT 2.
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Wow. I haven’t personally seen an IBM 360 ( a model 70) since 1972. With a card reader.
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In the plants, some of the stuff was really old, especially the CNCs, but the offices always had the latest and greatest. We did it all, as did most. Except hack those IBM 360s!
(we did hack everything else)
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Almost forgot. Yesterday there was a woman in the bread aisle loading bread into her cart and I asked her if she was stocking up. “Oh Yes”, she said, “We can’t get along without bread”. She was in her 30s, nicely dressed, looked and sounded educated. I casually mentioned that she could do what we do, bake bread if you needed it. “Oh no”, she replied, “I never felt the need to learn that.”
And there you go, a dependent made by the system.
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That’s the big issue with the closure of the restaurants. People gonna have to learn to cook, or else.
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I can’t get that vision of turkeys standing beak open, head up during a thunderstorm.
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The thing is, even where restaurants are being closed, those that have carryout or delivery are still selling food.
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I bake bread, of course, but I have also gone months without eating bread, too. A person can get along nicely without it.
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You’d think.
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Don’t they also make bread ovens now, that only bake bread?
My bread-baking days ended when GMas-Moms-my old steel bread pan finally fell apart, but have heard something about those bread ovens.
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I have a bread machine, but I also make bread the old-fashioned way, and no-knead bread in the regular oven.
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