JBS meat plants reopening in US after ransomware attack (had backup servers)

CNET ^ | 6-2-21 | Andrew Gebhart

[Dr. Sivana]

My regular job is as a backup administrator. I fear one day I will have to help perform a disaster recovery when one of our clients has one of these happen (and some of them are every bit as large as JBS). So far, so good.

[17th Miss Regt]

Can’t we just blame the Zionists for the attack? Or maybe those evil one-legged Maori bicycle racers?

[drypowder]

While we’re talking about America’s food supply, some good DC patriots need to start pushing legislation on getting foreign investment and control out of our food production, processing and supply chains. That is an extreme vulnerability for this country!

[dynachrome]

Coincidence that the 2 most hated industries by the green stalinists, beef/oil, are targeted by these attacks?

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Hardware is ridiculously cheap as is storage. Not having multiple redundancy is idiotic. Stepping over $20s to pick up pennies if you don’t do it. Kudos to the JBS IT team. The Colonial guys should go work in government. Only place incompetence like we saw is acceptable.

[redcatcherb412]

Coincidence that the 2 most hated industries by the green stalinists, beef/oil, are targeted by these attacks?

Pure coincidence, wasn't there a Biden plan to allow only 1 hamburger a month for US citizens because beef is bad, green is good pablum?

I will kindly pay you Tuesday for a Hamburger today is coming

[blam]

Good News.

Some are still reporting that we'll have a serious meat shortage due to this.
(I don't think so because of the JBS outage, maybe something else?)

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”My regular job is as a backup administrator.

“My now retired brother the MIS director used to bring home tapes and maintained a duplicate system at home.

All the senior execs also maintained systems.
Every two months they would have breakfast and build the backup system.

Back then he said, most companies that lose their data are out of business in two years.
IIRC he said the maximum loss was one full day and part on another. NO ONSITE STORAGE.

I suggested a new briefcase, one with the handcuff.
No sense of humor, none.

[redgolum]

What the heck did they have left open?

I have BEEN to those plants. Most of the automation is on a locked network without access to the outside.

[dynachrome]

“nude pictures of hillary! click here!”

Or are there any Chinese working for them?

[upchuck]

backup servers were unaffected and customer data secured.

Backups are the solution. UP YOURS HACKERS!!

[zeugma]

(had backup servers)

And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is how professionals work. You should always be able to reload from backups. This isn't rocket science folks.

[zeugma]

Backups eh? I was ridiculed here on FR for questioning why there were no backup systems for the gasoline pipeline. I was told that isn’t how things are done now. I declared that having a ‘single point of failure’, in the context of system security requirements, was an unacceptable architecture - only to be told I was wrong and that I didn’t understand that term.

Insanity. Personally, I think if they didn't have backups, they should be held to be criminally liable for any losses.

[G Larry]

Yes, given the number of municipalities who’ve paid the ransom.

[RebelTXRose]

I’m still waiting to find out what happened to our network at work - ALL are working at home on VPN. Not even a rumor of what happened...

[Texas resident]

There are no coincidences.

The dims knee jerk is to blame Russia.