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I worked a Maersk for a couple of years. This happened once before, we came in and all Maersk's machines were randomly shutting down. I heard later a rumour th

I worked a Maersk for a couple of years. This happened once before, we came in and all Maersk's machines were randomly shutting down. I heard later a rumour that the reason the AV didn't pick it up was it was a 0-day (stuxnet derived before that was known) and it was literally targeting the SCADA systems on boats.. but that's also the plot of Hackers, so take that with a pinch of salt. Anyway being the build/devops/tooling person on a project i burned 40 dvd's with eclipse and ubuntu and handed to them to the devs and they booted into Ubuntu and kept developing. All was going fine until i got a telling off from the Corporate IT security team complaining that our unauthorised Ubuntu machines weren't running AV and so could be introducing viruses into the network. Total facepalm.

samstave 9y ago
Ill see if I can find the episode, but did you know that the Stuxnet idea was first televised on an episode of Wonder Woman from the 70s? (Pre-dates hackers) Here it is... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0750242/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0750242/ An guess what the computer is called: I.R.A.C.
hans0l074 9y ago
After close to a decade of working in DK, I found their Big IT corporate processes resembling a Deathstar. Looks powerful from a distance, but flaws/inefficiencies can be discerned if you happen to be at close quarters. Also, they advanced ponderously. Which was weird because if you spoke to individual engineers in the teams, they seemed to know how things should be done. I was at Maersk same time as you, and I recall your team (ADLT!) eventually conjuring up some Vagrant machines for us devs, which were, it turned out, a pain to use since the AV kept interfering with the running VM's.
amrrs 9y ago
Nevertheless, I doubt the ability of AV softwares catch these unconventional Ransomwares. Anyone feels the security industry (apart from asking the user to update their OS to latest version) is capable of handling this?

samstave 9y ago

Ill see if I can find the episode, but did you know that the Stuxnet idea was first televised on an episode of Wonder Woman from the 70s? (Pre-dates hackers) Here it is... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0750242/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0750242/ An guess what the computer is called: I.R.A.C.

hans0l074 9y ago

After close to a decade of working in DK, I found their Big IT corporate processes resembling a Deathstar. Looks powerful from a distance, but flaws/inefficiencies can be discerned if you happen to be at close quarters. Also, they advanced ponderously. Which was weird because if you spoke to individual engineers in the teams, they seemed to know how things should be done. I was at Maersk same time as you, and I recall your team (ADLT!) eventually conjuring up some Vagrant machines for us devs, which were, it turned out, a pain to use since the AV kept interfering with the running VM's.

amrrs 9y ago

Nevertheless, I doubt the ability of AV softwares catch these unconventional Ransomwares. Anyone feels the security industry (apart from asking the user to update their OS to latest version) is capable of handling this?