Due to weather the museum will open at noon on Dec. 14 and Santa's Magical Morning has been canceled. We will continue to monitor conditions and post updates here.
But the amber light meant something had happened. He rolled his chair over, the wheels catching on a loose tile, and squinted at the old Dell PowerEdge. Its sticker read "Windows Server 2008 R2."
His heart rate spiked. Not because of the virus itself. Because of what the virus meant.
Then he saved the file as README.txt on the desktop. If the machine got encrypted, maybe a forensics guy would find it. Maybe they’d guess the password.
The beep was soft, almost polite. A single, amber pulse from the server rack in the corner of the dimly lit IT closet.