"Maersk’s 150 or so domain controllers were programmed to sync their data with one another, so that, in theory, any...

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Af Steven 🌞 Snedker den 23. august 2018 - 15:44 [5]

"Maersk’s 150 or so domain controllers were programmed to sync their data with one another, so that, in theory, any of them could function as a backup for all the others. But that decentralized backup strategy hadn’t accounted for one scenario: where every domain controller is wiped simultaneously. “If we can’t recover our domain controllers,” a Maersk IT staffer remembers thinking, “we can’t recover anything.”

After a frantic search that entailed calling hundreds of IT admins in data centers around the world, Maersk’s desperate administrators finally found one lone surviving domain controller in a remote office—in Ghana. At some point before NotPetya struck, a blackout had knocked the Ghanaian machine offline, and the computer remained disconnected from the network. It thus contained the singular known copy of the company’s domain controller data left untouched by the malware—all thanks to a power outage. “There were a lot of joyous whoops in the office when we found it,” a Maersk administrator says."

https://www.wired.com/story/notpetya-cyberattack-ukraine-russia-code-crashed-the-world/

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Steven Snedkers billede

"The security revamp was green-lit and budgeted. But its success was never made a so-called key performance indicator for Maersk’s most senior IT overseers, so implementing it wouldn’t contribute to their bonuses. They never carried the security makeover forward."


          Lars Larsen
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Særdeles interessant, men også frygtindgydende historie. Alt der kunne gå galt gik galt og så blev de reddet af et uheld. Sikken historie.


          Jacob Nordfalk
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Der var også en god artikel om det i Version2.dk

Steven Snedkers billede

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Ja, dette er et dumt spørgsmål med et nemt svar, men det er der kun fordi spam-robotter er for dumme til at besvare den slags, mens mennesker ikke er.
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