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Honda pauses production and closes offices following ransomware attack:
Honda's global operations have been hit with a ransomware attack and the Japanese automaker is still working to get everything back online. The company said Tuesday that it had to temporarily shut down some production facilities, and its customer and financial services operations are closed.
"[T]here is no current evidence of loss of personally identifiable information," Honda says in a statement to The Verge. "We have resumed production in most plants and are currently working toward the return to production of our auto and engine plants in Ohio."
[...] While Honda says some factories are opening back up, owners are unable to make online payments or access the company's customer service website, according to complaints on Twitter. And an employee in one of the company's biggest North American customer and financial service offices tells The Verge that temp workers (who make up a significant portion of this part of the company's workforce) are not being paid while the office is closed.
Also at Ars Technica.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Friday June 12 2020, @12:33PM (5 children)
Most businesses view IT as a cost, and try to cheap out on such vital things as backing up data, and upgrading. They'd rather not do anything in house, if it seems cheaper to put everything in the cloud, but you still have to have something for the workers, maybe a desktop on their desk, or a tablet, and of course, an Internet connection. That general attitude is what leads to these sorts of problems.
I've seen crazy misuses of computing resources. A decade after some improvement, businesses will still be stubbornly doing things the old way. Like, still using telnet in 2001. Circa 1990, one company had provided computers for their draftsmen but not their engineers. Saved money, not having to buy computers for everyone, or so some thought. The engineers were still doing calculations with pocket calculators (and for all I know, maybe even slide rules too) and writing things down by hand. They'd hand draw diagrams, then walk over to the drafting department and give the drawing to a draftsman who would copy it onto the computer with CAD software. Then the engineers would check the work. Might end up reading over the draftsman's shoulder while he worked, making corrections on the spot. I wondered aloud why didn't the engineers just use the CAD software themselves? But that would put a bunch of draftsmen out of work.
As to the Internet connection, even IBM fought that. They were so paranoid about their intellectual properties that in the early 1990s, no one was connected to the Internet. Didn't want copies of anything getting out via a computer network. Bring a modem to work? That's a "termination offense"!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Friday June 12 2020, @12:37PM
They weren't wrong, just a little early.
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(Score: 2) by stormreaver on Friday June 12 2020, @01:14PM
And don't forget the most important error they make: letting Microsoft anywhere close to your network.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday June 12 2020, @05:46PM (1 child)
We went to the moon with a slide rule, over 50 years ago, and since the invention of the personal computer, nobody has returned...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday June 12 2020, @05:49PM
That is because you can't play video games on slide rules.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday June 12 2020, @05:48PM
Amusingly, by 2000, or 01, IBM announced their Billion dollar investment in Linux. IBM became one of the biggest proponents of open source. Eventually buying Red Hat.
I remember stories on the green site of Linux ported to IBM mainframes. With 41,000 instances running on one large mainframe box.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.