Volkswagen Hit By IT Outage, Brand Vehicle Production In Germany Halted (reuters.com) 15
Volkswagen says it was hit by a major IT outage on Wednesday, halting production at the company's namesake brand in Germany. Reuters reports: Volkswagen said that the whole group, which includes the Porsche AG and Audi brands, was affected. Volkswagen said there had been an unspecified "IT malfunction of network components" at the carmaker's site in Wolfsburg, its global headquarters.
"The fault has been present since 12:30 p.m. (CET) and is currently being analysed. There are implications for vehicle-producing plants," the group said. "According to current analyses, an external attack is unlikely to be the cause of the system malfunction," Volkswagen said, adding that efforts to fix the problem were of the highest priority and well under way.
"The fault has been present since 12:30 p.m. (CET) and is currently being analysed. There are implications for vehicle-producing plants," the group said. "According to current analyses, an external attack is unlikely to be the cause of the system malfunction," Volkswagen said, adding that efforts to fix the problem were of the highest priority and well under way.
Damn the diesel emissions tester is offline again? (Score:3)
This time they ain't taking no chances.
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Given the vagueness of the description, I rather think they were hit by some kind of malware.
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That was exactly my thought too. I bet they're trying to decide whether or not to pay the ransom.
karma (Score:3)
dude
Taking bets (Score:3, Funny)
The system will have run:
1) Windows
2) Linux
3) Some proprietary OS (Cisco, Palo Alto...)
The software will have been:
1) Closed source home-built
2) Closed source vendor
3) Dependent on an ancient open source library (OpenSSL, Log4J)
4) Completely open source software
Re: Taking bets (Score:1)
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The above will have been
a) irrelevant
b) irrelevant
It doesn't matter what system or software you have. Security is dependent on the people who set it up. The most dangerous people are those who think swapping software or OS = magical security.
VAG was a RHEL shop (Score:2)
When I worked for a software vendor that supplied VW (back around 2007, so a while ago now), they used RHEL for everything in the factories.
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I'm dealing with a ton of those that are stuck on RHEL5,6,7 and have no plan for upgrade.
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SAP is a swiss cheese - https://www.cheese.com/sap-sag... [cheese.com]
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I know what it is... (Score:3)
another disk full error
Another one bites the dust (Score:2)
Another one without decent IT security, with no or untested DR procedures and with insufficient BCM measures. Arrogant morons.
Switch licensing issue? (Score:2)
According to several German sites, someone posted a (now deleted) post to Reddit suggesting it was an issue with
a) licenses for several important core features having expired on their switches, and then
2. accounting not okaying the automatic yearly renewal due to no one who was involved in setting up that automatic renewal working there anymore...