Tag: network intruder

Error Message Misinterpretation Exposes False Hacking Claim

A simple pause and a couple of words can make all the difference - in this case, changing a supposedly sinister hacking claim into a straightforward hard disk failure. A vice president's misread error message, "General failure reading Drive C:", nearly sparked a security scare before Lee, a quick-thinking sysadmin, got to the bottom of it.