A major electricity supplier in South Africa's largest city [(Johannesburg)] has suffered a ransomware attack, leaving some residents without power. City Power revealed on Thursday that its IT systems had been shut down.
"It has encrypted all our databases, applications and network," the company tweeted, referring to the virus.
City Power's website remains offline and residents have reported problems via social media with their electricity supplies. The ransomware attack initially affected customers' ability to buy pre-paid electricity and also hampered the firm's efforts to respond to localised blackouts.
A spokesman for City Power told the BBC that more than a quarter of a million people might have been affected.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 26 2019, @11:45PM (3 children)
Blindly running and executing everything is what got us into this mess.
Isolate the perpetrators, confine them. Bury them in a sandbox if you have to. But for $deity's sake, don't execute them!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 27 2019, @12:12AM (2 children)
Citations. I suspect you don't have any idea what you're talking about, but if you can provide citations, I may reconsider.
As for blindly executing - if you keep your eyes closed, you probably won't successfully execute anyone or anything. Try opening your eyes, next time. If nothing else, it's easier to find the "Enter" key on your keyboard.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 27 2019, @12:34AM
I believe what the op was referring to is our present paradigm of mixing code and data. Embedded executables.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 27 2019, @04:05PM
Whoosh!