Shoppers are seeing shortages of some familiar household products, from cleaners like Clorox and Tilex to Burt's Bees balms and Glad trash bags, as The Clorox Company tries to recover from a cyberattack it disclosed in August.
The company reported on Monday that, because of the damage the cyberattack caused to its internal systems, it is processing orders at a slower-than-normal rate, in some cases bypassing its automated systems and handling orders manually.
We have constructed the infrastructure of the 21st century out of moonbeams and cotton candy.
While Clorox isn't coming clean about everything, at least they are not trying to whitewash the disruption to their business.
ReplyDeleteEven after decades of widely publicized reports of hackers running rampant, the damage they do and the costs incurred most companies STILL treat cyber security like a joke. Too cheap to spend the required ONGOING money and time to protect their systems until AFTER they suffer a major attack. And even then they don't always learn. Instead their IT idiots do stupid things like requiring 16 character email passwords with two factor authentication rather than securing the myriad backdoors in their systems.
ReplyDeleteHow much of this could be prevented simply by telling Mr. Gates where to put his products?
ReplyDeleteWait till the Ruskies start mass-hacking our electricity. Hooo boy.
ReplyDeleteThat's because we have security theater, not security.
ReplyDeleteBorepatch -- this is the sort of stuff that will keep you gainfully employed for a long time, correct?
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