British Airways flight chaos lessens after weekend of
disruption
The airline is "closer to full operational
capacity" after an IT power cut resulted in mass flight cancellations at
Heathrow and Gatwick.
Thousands of passengers remain displaced, with large
numbers sleeping overnight in terminals.
BA has not explained the cause of the power problem.
… no-one from the
airline has been made available to answer questions about the system crash, and
it has not explained why there was no back-up system in place.
… BA blames a
power cut, but a corporate IT expert said it should not have caused "even
a flicker of the lights" in the data-centre.
Even if the power could not be restored, the airline's
Disaster Recovery Plan should have whirred into action. But that will have depended in part on veteran
staff with knowledge of the complex patchwork of systems built up over the
years.
Many of those people may have left when much of the IT
operation was outsourced to India.
One theory of the IT expert, who does not wish to be
named, is that when the power came back on the systems were unusable because
the data was unsynchronised.
In other words the airline was suddenly faced with a mass
of conflicting records of passengers, aircraft and baggage movements - all the
complex logistics of modern air travel.
… Former Virgin
Airlines spokesman Paul Charles said: "What seems remarkable is there was
no back-up system kicking in within a few minutes system failing.
"Businesses of this type need systems backing up all
the time, and this is what passengers expect."
… The airline said
there was no evidence the computer failure was the result of a cyber-attack. It denied claims by the GMB union that the
problem could be linked to the company outsourcing its IT work.
(Related).
Commentary: British Airways has no excuse for the chaos at
Heathrow airport
… On the scant
information available so far, there appears to be no good excuse for the
crippling IT failure. Mr Cruz said there
was no evidence of a cyberattack and that the root cause seemed to be a power
supply issue - the same reason given by
Delta, the US airline, when IT problems forced it to ground planes
around the world last year.
This
is an entirely inadequate explanation. Whatever
back-up systems British Airways had in place, they are woefully deficient
if they cannot withstand a power cut. No
chief executive today can afford to underestimate the threat posed by either
cyberattack or more mundane IT glitches.
A few more details and a list of Colorado stores hit.
Most Chipotle restaurants hacked with credit card stealing
malware
The company first acknowledged the breach on April 25. But a blog post
on Friday revealed the kind of malware used in the attack and the restaurants
that were affected.
The list of attacked locations is extensive and includes
many major U.S. cities. When CNNMoney
asked the company Sunday about the scale of the attack, spokesman Chris Arnold
said that "most, but not all restaurants may have been involved."
Chipotle (CMG)
said in its blog post that it worked with law enforcement officials and
cybersecurity firms on an investigation.
… A list of the
restaurants and times they were affected can be found on Chipotle's website.
Where there is money to be made, legally or illegally,
malware waits for you.
'Judy' Malware Potentially Hits Up to 36.5M Android Users
As outlined by security firm Check Point, 41 apps developed by
Korea-based Kiniwini and published under the moniker ENISTUDIO Corp.,
"infected devices to generate large amounts of fraudulent clicks on
advertisements, generating revenues for the perpetrators behind it."
It's "possibly the largest malware campaign found on
Google Play," according to Check Point.
Google "swiftly" removed the apps from Google
Play after being alerted to their existence, Check Point says, but not before
they "reached an astonishing spread between 4.5 million and 18.5 million
downloads." Some were available on
the store for several years and all were recently updated.
Of course not, they were making it (the entire campaign)
up on the fly!
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/335481-trump-campaign-likely-didnt-save-documents-report
Trump campaign likely didn’t save documents: report
The Trump campaign likely did not preserve documents and
communications key to the law enforcement investigation into possible collusion
between President Trump's associates and the Kremlin, Politico
reported Saturday.
Political campaigns, Politico noted, are typically not
required to preserve emails on their private server for long windows of time,
and most messages are deleted within 30 to 90 days, unless steps are taken to
preserve them.
What's more, the Trump campaign did not do much to
establish a plan to maintain those communications, according to a former
campaign aide.
"You’d be giving us too much credit,” the former aide
told Politico. "The idea of document
retention did not come up. The idea of
some formal structure did not come up."
Now PowerPoint has an AI, and I still won’t use it!
Anything to help my students get jobs!
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