[Cialug] ISU Computer Time Stolen to Mine Bitcoin

Todd Walton tdwalton at gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 21:47:01 CDT 2014


So... re-flash the firmware.

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Todd



On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Jonathan A. Kollasch <jakllsch at kollasch.net
> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 09:11:31PM -0500, Todd Walton wrote:
> > Why would they literally destroy the computers?  It's not like the
> hardware
> > gets cooties once it's touched by baddies.
>
> Well, get root on a lot of machines and you can give the firmware
> cooties.  That said, this does sound overkill.
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