Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Another

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Sacramento Regional Transit is the one being taken for a ride on this night, by a computer hacker.That hacker forced RT to halt its operating systems that take credit card payments, and assigns buses and trains to their routes.The local transit agency alerted federal agents following an attack on their computers that riders may not have noticed Monday.“We actually had the hackers get into our system, and systematically start erasing programs and data,” Deputy General Manager Mark Lonergan.
They got a sleeped virus inside the route scheduler.  How? The server did not have Intel SGX . Nor did the operators use a hardware badge to log in.  All of this is known today, now, and as of a few months ago.  Even being this stupid, they should have backed up the critical files, off site, off network.

We have these sleeper viruses everywhere, there is no sense hunting them down, go directly to sandbox concepts, never let humans, any humans, have access to critical keys.

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