The Halloween Spider Attack
Posted by azaz0080FF@reddit | talesfromtechsupport | View on Reddit | 13 comments
So it's Halloween and as usual everyone is in the office (building B) for our Halloween party. On top of that it's time for the regular Tabletop/IRP review. So everyone in the department from desktop support to security, Property management, the CIO and CISO are all crammed into the hot conference room. Luckily I'm not as I asked to work from Building A that day
Anyway, we started going through our IRP scenarios. With some members strategically barred from answering. Our new security analyst pipes up and says we have spiders attacking our network. Confusion follows, is this a scenario? Then slight panic, this isn't a scenario. CISO ask where are you seeing this. Analyst says, we just got a critical ticket. Someone opens the ticket and reads web spider attacking printer in building A This makes no sense so network, security and webdev start checking their various metrics and logs. I'm in building A so I go to check the printers.I find spiders all right, tiny plastic spiders all over the flatbed in the exec suite.
TLDR: someone messed with the printers, a game of telephone leads to a VIP (automatically critical) ticket saying our printers are under attack. Turns out someone just covered the printers in plastic spiders.
IntelligentLake@reddit
Printers are always up to no good. The only way to defend against it is a preemptive strike.
deeseearr@reddit
"I say we take off and nuke the entire printer from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Tasty-Mall8577@reddit
Gaaaaaame over man! Game over!
AlaskanDruid@reddit
Please post the rest...
dickcheney600@reddit
I thought there would be actual live spiders inside the printer. I'm glad for your sake that wasn't the case. :)
I used to work at a thrift store, checking donated electronics to make sure they actually worked. I took apart a DVD/VCR combo to see if it needed a new belt or it was gunked up internally. When I took it apart there were dead bugs inside. I threw it away immediately. Sadly, we didn't have biohazard bags or labels for things like that.
oolaroux@reddit
Bet it was one of the evil web developers.
azaz0080FF@reddit (OP)
nope, wrong building
Fixes_Computers@reddit
The perfect alibi
ArchyDexter@reddit
As far as I can tell, the printers are under attack from multiple web developers
meitemark@reddit
It could have been a lot worse. It could have been live spiders crawling out of routers.
azaz0080FF@reddit (OP)
have I posted the story about the Christmas tree inside a broken desktop computer after Christmas yet?
michele-x@reddit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_Romeo_Spider
The bad guys arrived in style with vintage Italian roadsters.
DreamerFi@reddit
So Scatters Spiders attacked?