This is the reality now. With Wednesday’s apparent tempest-in-a-teapot ransomware attack at Boeing, the possibility remains for even the biggest organizations to come to a crippling halt at the mere hint that WannaCry has been redeveloped, reworked and set out in the wild. The Seattle Times’ initial story relayed as much, as Boeing’s chief engineer sent out a companywide memo Wednesday calling for “all hands on deck” in the initial aftermath. A few hours passed, and suddenly what was WannaCry’s next great casualty was nothing more than an uncomfortable afternoon for the aviation giant’s IT teams. “A number of articles on a malware disruption are overstated and inaccurate,” a Boeing statement read. “Our cybersecurity operations center detected a limited intrusion of malware that affected a small number of systems. Remediations were applied and this is not a production or delivery issue.” Yet while Boeing avoided being labeled as infosec’s Next Great […]
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