Shimano Hacked - Not unexpected
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Shimano Hacked - Not unexpected
With constant reports of other businesses being hacked it was probably just a matter of time. What next, your Di2 system suddenly freezes up? Keep your data secured and be very careful what you click on.
Shimano Was the Victim of a Ransomware Attack and Didn’t Pay the Ransom. Hackers Then Published a LOT of Data. (msn.com)
Shimano Was the Victim of a Ransomware Attack and Didn’t Pay the Ransom. Hackers Then Published a LOT of Data. (msn.com)
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Interesting. Perhaps this is part of the reason the Shimano B2B site was down for several days earlier this month. Between the Hollowtech II crank recall and now this ^, Shimano has had a rough year. I have a feeling 2024 will be another difficult year for the cycling industry.
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Interesting. Perhaps this is part of the reason the Shimano B2B site was down for several days earlier this month. Between the Hollowtech II crank recall and now this ^, Shimano has had a rough year. I have a feeling 2024 will be another difficult year for the cycling industry.
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Every major corporate intrusion I responded to during my career was because the company left the door open. Mostly due to unpatched or truly old server software. Retired for 4 years now, and the tech world changes fast, but dollars to donuts...
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I thought this thread was going to be about a hack for using Shimano with fingerless gloves.
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Its probably related to my viewing preferences on the web, but I get a lot on news stories about businesses large and small getting hacked for ransom or just by mischief makers. Really disturbing considering so many companies have so much on the web these days. Back when I was working (I wasn't in I.T.) we'd get a few hacks ech year. I used to delete emails that had simplistic titles that scream potential hack and that the I.T. guys warned everyone about, like "Hey", Our Meeting", Your Ideas", stuff like that, and it got me in trouble. I asked the I.T. folks how those got through and apparently it was lazy admin management that didn't allow the systems to be set up to block simplistic, non-specific phrases like that or send them to spam folders. They liked that I did delete those emails. Apparently about 90% of the incoming email we received was spam.
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It only takes a minute to stop and consider whether something passes the smell test. If it seems even remotely suspicious, report it to I.T. just to be safe.
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I read the hacker was a retro grouch that demanded that Shimano go back to 6-spd, rim brake setups with no carbon parts. Apparently the ransomware was hidden in a Lotus 1-2-3 file uploaded from a 5-1/4 inch floppy disc.
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Maybe I should be more circumspect, but I'm 8" floppy disc old. (DEC PDP 11)
Actually the computer at my college was paper tape. Only the operators got to use magnetic tape to boot (and re-boot) it, but the boot loader was paper tape.
Now I feel old.
Actually the computer at my college was paper tape. Only the operators got to use magnetic tape to boot (and re-boot) it, but the boot loader was paper tape.
Now I feel old.
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Floppy disc? Meh. Real men wrote their COBOL code and JCL on coding sheets and sent them to the key punch operators to make 80 column punch cards. Sure, it took a week or more to get a clean compile for a program but I never saw any of that code hacked.
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There weren't any networks back then, were there? I remember a summer job at a bank; we had to pick up the phone and call downtown to find out if a check was good, because that's where the computer was.
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Men with the right stuff wrote exclusively in FORTRAN IV. And of course we never touched a keypunch machine, as keypunch operator was a hourly (union) job.
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The only programming I've ever done was on punch cards in college. You'd have a pretty large box for what would now be an incredibly simple program. I never got beyond the incredibly simple.
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IBM made a very nice punchcard work desk, like 3rd generation. You'd type a few things for a line and whoosh, the card moved to the back of the stack and a new one loaded. Throughoughly modern Millie. Debugging was a bee-atch.
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Remember those print-outs of bad credit card numbers that came out every week or so, so you could check that a customer's credit card was valid?
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Same here. Write out the program in a notebook in your dorm room, go to the computer center to see if a keypunch was free, if so, transcribe your program onto the punch cards. Then place the stack of cards in the job queue to be run overnight when the computer wasn't doing more important things like processing payroll. Come back the next day for the greenbar output with all your errors flagged. Go back to dorm room and try again.
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I don't care what the evidence shows, IT WAS NOT ME! Hold that thought for a moment, I've got a call coming in on my Nokia flip phone.
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In the early days of computers in banks, an enterprising programmer once collected dozens of deposit slips from the lobbies of branches of a local bank, printed an account number on them, and returned them to the bank lobbies. Two days later, he closed the account and walked off with a lot of cash. (Or so the story went, anyway.)
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If you look at the front of the IBM building near Baltimore's Inner Harbor, you will see that it was designed to resemble a punch card.
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Since the topic has gone full nerd, I was stuck on getting some code to work and yeah, ChatGPT spat the the correct syntax in a couple of seconds. The sand is shifting underfoot and if I was still in the game I'd probably be in AI based customer support.