Japan Airlines Hit By Cyberattack, Delaying Flights During Year-End Holiday Season (apnews.com) 3
Japan Airlines said it was hit by a cyberattack Thursday, causing delays to more than 20 domestic flights but the carrier said there was no impact on flight safety. From a report: JAL said the problem started Thursday morning when the company's network connecting internal and external systems began malfunctioning. The airline said the cyberattack had delayed 24 domestic flights for more than 30 minutes, and the impact could expand later in the day.
Expect "Revert to Paper" drill for critical things (Score:3)
Expecting some level of "Revert to Paper" disaster drills for part or all of critical parts of infrastructure, transportation and defense at some future point.
It may be a full revert to paper drill or just a revert to paper for a small part of the overall system and then slowly building into a revert to paper for more and more of the system.
Speculation
A bit short on cyber technical details :o (Score:2)
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The article shows this as a non-sophisticated denial of service attack that used just a flood of data to cause the problems. It wasn't a hack or anything that would have compromised security. Back in the day, a Ping Flood would be one way to do this, just saturate the network connection(s) with data so all other data would be horribly delayed(so transactions would time out and such).