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Comment Outsourcing and SAP, good combination (Score 2) 34

JLR has been owned since 2008 by Tata Group. The carmaker is not the only part of the sprawling conglomerate to have questions to answer after the hack: in 2023 JLR outsourced a huge part of its computer systems to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). TCS is one of the biggest outsourcing companies in the world and makes the bulk of the dividends paid out to the Tata family’s holding company. TCS has been at the centre of the response to the hack that has crippled JLR, with a large number of employees scrambling to work out the source of the intrusion. TCS did not respond to requests for comment. Under the five-year, £800m contract agreed in 2023, TCS and JLR planned to “rapidly transform, simplify, and manage its digital and IT estate, supporting its broader strategic business transformation”. TCS runs large parts of JLR’s key computer systems, ranging from its networks to data connections, and, crucially, its cybersecurity. Part of the reimagine strategy required more flexible software to enable the luxury carmaker to produce Range Rovers in precisely the configuration demanded by the global rich paying £120,000 plus – all while retaining the efficiency of a high-volume factory. “I would argue that JLR’s software is probably more complex than Nasa putting a spacecraft into space,” said one supplier (with perhaps a touch of hyperbole). “When it works it’s a thing of wonder. This has exposed it.” One of TCS’s jobs was to manage the upgrade of JLR factory systems to the latest software from the German company SAP. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fbu...

Submission + - US Secret Service 'dismantles telecommunications threat' (bbc.co.uk)

mrspoonsi writes: The US Secret Service says it has dismantled a network of more than 300 SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards in the New York area that were capable of crippling telecom systems.

The devices were "concentrated within 35 miles of the global meeting of the UN General Assembly now under way in New York City" and an investigation has been launched, it adds in a press statement.

The Secret Service says the dangers posed included "disabling cell phone towers, enabling denial of services attacks, and facilitating anonymous, encrypted communication between potential threat actors and criminal enterprises".

Comment The reality of Hydrogen on the ground.. (Score 2) 131

...is very different, frequently running out of stock, fuel hose stuck on the vehicle and 1 hour to fill a single car at some places. So much so Toyota is facing class action lawsuits on the cars they practically gave away. "The Iwatani hydrogen station is fragile, has only one working pump, and dispenses fuel every 20 minutes. It also has a limit of about one-third of the full tank per fill, so a Mirai driver has to spend one hour at the pump to fill up to 100% if the driver comes to the station with less than 30% in the tank," Benko said. "[Last month] my Mirai completely lost power when I was waiting in line because I had my heater on. I called Mirai’s emergency roadside assistance. The assistance came in an hour and recharged my battery; however, the line moved up only 1 car in that time, so I was still an hour away from getting to the pump." He added, "The whole process of refueling a hydrogen car is plain horrible." https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Finsideevs.com%2Fnews%2F708...

Submission + - Woman with £2bn in Bitcoin convicted of money laundering (bbc.co.uk)

mrspoonsi writes: A former takeaway worker found with Bitcoin worth more than £2bn has been convicted at Southwark Crown Court of a crime linked to money laundering.

Jian Wen, 42, from Hendon in north London, was involved in converting the currency into assets including multi-million-pound houses and jewellery.

On Monday she was convicted of entering into or becoming concerned in a money laundering arrangement.

The Met said the seizure is the largest of its kind in the UK.

Comment Re:Their dns was within Facebook.com (Score 2) 252

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.cloudflare.com%2Foc... "At 1658 UTC we noticed that Facebook had stopped announcing the routes to their DNS prefixes. That meant that, at least, Facebook’s DNS servers were unavailable. Because of this Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver could no longer respond to queries asking for the IP address of facebook.com or instagram.com." "Meanwhile, other Facebook IP addresses remained routed but weren’t particularly useful since without DNS Facebook and related services were effectively unavailable" If they had an external DNS away from facebook.com, the lookups would have still worked, and parts of facebook would still be operating, even though BGP to their internal DNS had been killed. Godaddy had a similar issue years ago and wiped a huge part of the internet for a number of days. I guess memories do not go back that far.

Comment Their dns was within Facebook.com (Score 2) 252

So Facebook have 4 dns servers a to d.ns.Facebook.com, and they are dns hosted by themselves, so fb need to update the domain to external dns servers to bring it all back online, that is likely 24 hours from now, assuming they can get in the building to get the passwords. Amateur hour in facebook, they never guessed that a miss configuration could take facebook.com off the internet. I bet you in future one of their dns servers will be external to fb.com

Comment Blame no one but self (Score 1) 580

1) If the CDC did not try to create their own test instead of using the WHO standard test, they would not have lost February.

2) If Trump had of not put the stock market before lives in his country and did a lock down when the evidence said to do so instead of downplaying it.

The more he blames others, the more the spot light is on his own incompetence.

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