Top Meat Supplier is the Latest Victim of a Cyberattack (axios.com) 45
Major meat supplier JBS USA was the latest victim of an organized cybersecurity attack, with servers in North American and Australian affected, the company said Sunday. From a report: Why it matters: JBS USA is the largest producer of beef in the country, The Hill notes, and also is a major supplier of poultry and pork. The disclosure of the attack comes as cyber threats have picked up over the last year. Last month, Colonial Pipeline was taken offline by its operator because of a cyberattack.
In March, a cyber-espionage unit backed by the Chinese government resulted in 30,000 U.S. victims, including many small businesses and local governments. Earlier this year, the U.S. intelligence community assessed that Russia was responsible for the major SolarWinds attack. Nine federal agencies and more than 100 private sector groups were compromised in the attack, per the Hill.
In March, a cyber-espionage unit backed by the Chinese government resulted in 30,000 U.S. victims, including many small businesses and local governments. Earlier this year, the U.S. intelligence community assessed that Russia was responsible for the major SolarWinds attack. Nine federal agencies and more than 100 private sector groups were compromised in the attack, per the Hill.
Any visible business will get hit (Score:5, Insightful)
Sooner or later, but not vert much later. I personally know of 3 incidents that did not make the press and that were all up and running within 2 days again because they were prepared and could recover without paying anybody, but any business not expecting to get hit soon is run by fools.
and backups are not enough (Score:2)
It is also possible for the attackers to have a dead man switch in their attack co
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You raise a good point - if your data is not encrypted as appropriate, then you are vulnerable to blackmail.
So not only do we have idiot management not allocating enough resources to do decent backups, we now also have idiot management failing to allocate for encryption.
Yet - somehow - they continually manage to give themselves huge bonuses.
Perhaps there is a disconnect between what management claims, and what they are actually doing?
The BIOS hacking is a whole other level. Then again, it can be fixed by p
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Nope. "Date encryption" protects data at rest, e.g. a laptop that is off or a server that is not running. It does zero to deter hackers from copying that data. They come via the API or the application.
This is getting serious (Score:5, Funny)
I don't care about gasoline, but keep your stinkin' mitts off my bacon!
Re: This is getting serious (Score:1)
Donâ(TM)t worry, itâ(TM)s a beef supplier. Your bacon is safe.
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From TFA: "The Hill notes, and is a major supplier of poultry and pork."
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How come we never hear of porn being cyberattacked?
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the hackers get too "distracted" while trying
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Arent porn websites run like a damn mafia were if you try to launch one you will find yourself under constant attacks which, mysteriously, dont happen if you launch any other kind of website? I have 0 sources on this but it's second hand info I heard very often.
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Competition between them is heating up :)
https://nypost.com/2021/04/27/... [nypost.com]
Cyber-espionage backed by the Chinese Govenment... (Score:1)
Re:Cyber-espionage backed by the Chinese Govenment (Score:5, Insightful)
Nonsense, target too small time for Chinese government to have any interest. Blaming a government for small hacker's action is U.S. propaganda. The truth is a tiny group or one person can take out a poorly protected target; the fault of all these "Russian" and Chinese" attacks is 100 percent the stupid lazy target that didn't take basic precautions.
Re: Cyber-espionage backed by the Chinese Govenmen (Score:2, Insightful)
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These attacks won't make meat disappear, they're nothing but a nuisance. Maybe the IT of attacked places will quit being lazy and incompetent, which is of course the root cause of the problem that is easily remedied.
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Yeah, well, that kind of stuff is too easy to fake, so they don't know squat. The whodunit is all pure speculation and scapegoating for the war effort and to keep our minds off domestic problems.
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If only there was a bloody war effort!
You'd think after a year of supply chain challenges for basic goods, long delays in domestic adaptation, and now a string of 'cyber attacks on multi-nationals' the THREAT of globalism and the efficient but brittle market 'free trade' has given us would be clear.
This is a failed experiment - its time to reverse course!
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Gotta keep stress levels up, so people don't ask questions
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That wonderful Mr. Xi cares deeply about our health; red meat is not good for us. I'll send him a thankful postcard.
If they fuck with our beer (Score:2)
...it's war, man!
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Sorry mush, Coors & Bud light are not beer...
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After you've had a few, the diff ain't matter
U.S. government propaganda machine (Score:1, Flamebait)
Blaming a government for what one lone cracker could do easily seems to be the new way of US trying to stir up patriotism. Annoying disruption to meat supplier is hardly attractive to Chinese government.
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Makes the Chinese pork and poultry businesses look like a good deal.
Re:U.S. government propaganda machine (Score:4, Informative)
Annoying disruption to meat supplier is hardly attractive to Chinese government.
The Chinese own Smithfields. JBS is their biggest competitor.
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the disruption is nothing though, won't affect anything. the meat doesn't suddenly vanish
Russia takes bribes and looks the other way! (Score:2)
Russia takes bribes and looks the other way!
Cyber yuck! (Score:2)
I'm not eating meat with cybers in it!
Cyber cyber cyber cyber cyber, use that word a lot and you'll be cooler than a cigarette smoker!
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I got my 5G injection, and now I AM THE CYBER!
I'm in... (Score:2)
I live in North American too, same as some of the affected servers.
Is there anyone here who lives in Australian?
Future Imperfect - CyberPolygon Timeline (Score:1)
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Future Imperfect
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June 2009, in the midst of the swine flu breakout the World Health Organization defangs their working definition of 'pandemic' by removing the requirement of "enormous numbers of deaths and illnesses".
Like magic, the WHO can now declare pandemics far more easily triggering billion dollar contracts with pharmaceutical
A note on why this happened (Score:1)
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But even good IT infrastructure has problems and 100% uptime is like trying to break light speed. It requires logarithmically increasing resource inputs for scalar increases in reliability (or velocity, for the speed metaphor).
AFAIK, Netflix is one of the few cases of a company that baked in fault tolerance and continuous fault generation testing to enhance it. But in many ways they had it easy, they are all digital and run on a cloud platform that makes it possible, partly because they were a from-scratc
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