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"... "The $96.5 million that we're talking about was not just the front end of the website, the tip of the iceberg that the public sees, but the back end, which sees data flowing from tens of thousands of pieces of equipment in the field, to the supercomputer that does all the modelling, right through to systems that actually forecast the weather and put it through to the website," he said.
"So every bit of that chain had to be hardened and made secure to stop a future attack taking down the whole website."...."
- intrasight 11mo agoAnd so clearly was not only for design
- asdefghyk 11mo agoI guess some of the endpoints could be supplying critical data . Interference via hackers to these endpoints data could have serious consequences. I have no specific idea actually, but with experience as electronics engineer / embedded programmer .... there probably be some such scenarios .... hence endpoints would need security upgrades .... But I really have NO IDEA about any specifics ...