Jaguar Land Rover Extends Shutdown After Cyber Attack 36
Jaguar Land Rover has extended the shutdown of its UK and overseas factories after a cyberattack forced it to take IT systems offline, disrupting production, dealerships, and suppliers. The BBC reports: Jaguar Land Rover's (JLR) UK factories are now expected to remain closed until at least Wednesday after work was disrupted by a cyber attack just over a week ago. The car plants at Halewood and Solihull and its Wolverhampton engine facility, along with production facilities in Slovakia, China and India, have been unable to operate since the company fell victim to the cyber attack. Staff who work on the production lines have been told to remain at home. JLR shut down its IT systems in response to the attack on 31 August, in order to protect them from damage. However, this caused major disruption. [...]
Under normal circumstances, the company builds about 1,000 cars a day. The production stoppage has had a significant impact on the company's suppliers, with some understood to have told their own staff not to come into work. As well as forcing the factories to stop building cars, it also left dealerships unable to register new cars and garages that maintain JLR vehicles unable to order the parts they needed -- although it is understood workarounds have since been put in place. The attack began at what is traditionally a popular time for consumers to take delivery of new vehicles. The latest batch of new registration plates became available on Monday, September 1.
Under normal circumstances, the company builds about 1,000 cars a day. The production stoppage has had a significant impact on the company's suppliers, with some understood to have told their own staff not to come into work. As well as forcing the factories to stop building cars, it also left dealerships unable to register new cars and garages that maintain JLR vehicles unable to order the parts they needed -- although it is understood workarounds have since been put in place. The attack began at what is traditionally a popular time for consumers to take delivery of new vehicles. The latest batch of new registration plates became available on Monday, September 1.
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I wonder if Indian's get frustrated when they have to call their own tech support hotline.
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LOL...ok, I think you win the internet today with that one...hahaha.
Good one!!
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Jaguar has been owned by the Indians now, who kindly did the needful with respect to product quality, and did not redeem.
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Buy a Lotus. You get amazing handling and suspension with a Japanese engine.
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Buy a Lotus. You get amazing handling and suspension with a Japanese engine.
Caterhams are also very cool.
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Huh.
I have some Japanese engines (1972 450 CB in pieces), i3000 generator. I should be able to weld up some conduit into a basic frame, drop and engine into it
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I kinda figured that weird, woke commercial with all the colors, alien outfits and hairdos had pretty much done them in as a business....?
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Return of the Bunny Men?
Will anybody notice? (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re: Will anybody notice? (Score:3)
Yes.
Jaguar re-branded themselves by putting multi-cultural models in retina-burning bright colors and hair of unnatural color and NO CARS at all.
Several decades ago Dudley Moore made a joke about a new tag line for Jaguars - "Jaguars sleek and smart for men who'd like hand jobs from beautiful women they hardly know", and that seemed pretty accurate... now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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The issue is no one is buying them, and the folks that might have been considering buying a jaguar could easily have been dissuaded because driving a Jaguar is, and always has been, about putting forth a certain image, Jaguars held a certain mystique.
Imagine if Cadillac decided to feature Beavis and Butthead in their advertising - would the average person considering buying a Cadillac just ignore it and head down to the dealership?
We saw what happened when Bud Light ("the #1 selling beer in the US at the ti
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Jaguar should be doing product placement in– "action" films.
How did we build cars before the internet? (Score:2)
Anybody remember?
It's like when younger people go "But what if there's a power failure, how will you use your credit cards then?" Well, back in ye olden days they had this device with carbon papers that could imprint your card, then the merchant would fill out the transaction details on the sheet and you'd sign it, and here's the really crazy thing: it required no electricity! We used to be able to do it, but then at some point the credit card companies decided to stop producing the cards with embossed nu
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They have no method of taking cash payments, at all, in this scenario.
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Irrelevant, even with a cash-drawer. Without a computer, they've got no way of recording the transfer of money (in) and inventory (out). That might not be a big deal for a shop run from a single cash-register but it's not tolerable for a mini-mart or a super-market.
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That's because the backend computers are basically responsible for inventory tracking and record keeping.
You could do it with cash, but then it would result in someone having to handle the cash at the end of the day and reconciling the purchases and computing all the taxes t
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The problem is, we've decided that being able to fallback to the "old" way of doing things is no longer necessary.
It is worse: Many cannot really afford to go back to older ways for redundancy, because that is too expensive, or they do not have enough people to do it in the first case. Essentially an "overfitting" of procedures to the best-case.
But with attacks getting easier and easier because software and OS vendors try to half-ass whatever they can out of unfettered greed and, on top of that, LLMs actually being good at writing attack code, I guess we will se a lot of big names just collapse and vanish in the next f
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So, how is that cheap IT security working out? (Score:3)
Because essentially all of those hit made it easy for the attackers. Attackers do not spend more effort than needed, because they have economic constraints (and skill constraints) too. I guess that "saved money" is getting very expensive now.
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> Car manufacturers are terrible at IT.
Absolutely,
Recently, the EU has increased regulation, and they now require a basic IT security concept for every vehicle sold. Not a certification, not a specific approach, just a basic definition.
And did the manufacturers do? Withdraw a whole bunch of models from sale. Because they did not even have a basic IT security concept, and they did not think they could create one.
So yes, IT security in automotive is certainly an issue.
Just AI it (Score:2)
Breakfast cereal, best friend, code generator. What doesn't AI do? The CTO should be able to crank out a secure system before noon. Amirite?
Self-inflicted. (Score:4, Informative)
So, Jaguar..you’re shutting down for a while longer because of a “cyberattack” you say?
97% sales drop. Jaguar will remain the steaming example of what not to do. I doubt the brand will survive the year. Wouldn’t be surprised if we find a cyberattack cover story in the end to try and dismiss the worst re-branding failure in automotive history.