Posted on 09/27/2023 12:25:10 PM PDT by dynachrome
Google translated:
"Dusseldorf. A malfunction in IT has large parts of the Volkswagen- Group paralyzed. The crisis team is convened, large parts of IT and production should be affected. Tapes are sometimes still, email communication does not work. The cause is currently unknown.
According to the Handelsblatt, the problem is not limited to Germany alone. Accordingly, locations worldwide are affected. The complete scope of the disruption is not yet apparent, especially since some countries are currently not producing due to the time difference, VW says. The disruption continued on Wednesday evening.
Factories from other group brands are also affected Previously, a spokesman had confirmed to the Handelsblatt a „ IT malfunction of network components at the Wolfsburg location “. The disruption has existed since 12.30 p.m. There are implications for the vehicle-producing plants.
In Germany, in addition to the VW locations in Wolfsburg, Emden, Dresden, Osnabrück and Zwickau, the factories of other group brands are also to be affected, including Audi. An Audi spokeswoman has now confirmed this to the dpa news agency. The scope is still being examined."
(Excerpt) Read more at handelsblatt.com ...
Given that the CIA/Biden blew up their pipelines to keep Germany on the NATO plantation, you need to open your mind a bit wider to encompass all possibilities.
One would think corporations this big would have utterly secure systems.................
Just yesterday VW announced they would temporarily cut production of two EV models due to weaker demand.
It seems there is no such thing. The digital world that runs everything is incredibly fragile. I am having problems with my computer at work too.
Windows update.
Everybody talks about not having a single point of failure. But all they tend to do is make more single points of failure. The wrong computer goes down and suddenly all the other computers can’t talk to each other and you’re hosed.
All those are likely candidates, you have to ask yourself, what is their motivation to do this particular job.
What a lot of people don’t understand is, most of the so called “hacks” are human hacks, meaning someone within the company knowingly or most times unknowingly has created the problem.
It could be some pissed off internal IT person who is behind this, I was contracted to a major worldwide Energy company when one of the guys on our small team, opened an infected email, fortunately before the virus got out of hand it was contained but this particular guy nearly lost his job over something that was another department’s screw up.
The NSA has been hacked, the bigger they are, the easier they are to hack, especially from the inside, the vast majority hacks are started within the company.
Edward Snowden is a prime example, he had Admin access to everything and managed to get away with all the secrets.
Usually, it’s not some computer geek sitting in a basement with a laptop that has figured out how to get into the network, it’s people on the inside of the network with access to everything that you need to worry about.
LOL —> “A malfunction in IT...”
“Nice factories you have there, VW. Would you like to get them back on line? Send us $100 million in small bills to...”
10 percent to the big guy of course.
“Nude pics of hillary. Click here!”
Just a few minutes of real research finds a key factoid in VW's actions:
"Phaseout of EV subsidy in Germany causes demand to drop"
Once again, there is no significant 'demand' for these things. Money is stolen from taxpayers and funneled to support this insanity. Just like everywhere else, I'm sure many creeps are getting their own 10%.
LOL. It was the hugely popular response that took them all down.
I knew a guy who took down the entire ATM network on the East Coast of the USA for a major bank because he was careless.
On the same team, another guy took down about 15,000 voice mail accounts in Charlotte, NC for the same bank, one of them was the CEO of the bank.
There was some major butts grabbing seat cushions over those 2 incidents, fortunately both were quickly recovered from and no one lost their jobs, it was close, both times it was good people being careless.
SAP, where big corporations go to die.
It’s as if around the world, “man buns”, Birkenstock wearing “tools”, and Whole Foods shoppers cried out in anguish with one voice! ;) LOL...WGAS.
Windows updates?
TOO MANY PEOPLE believe Computers are INVINCIBLE
Now, that is absolutely true, I worked in the field for 38 years and I know every computer system can be hacked.
As I said, it’s not always some geek sitting in a basement with a laptop, most times it’s someone within the organization that is either up to no good or is careless.
I was contracted to a major bank, it had over 7000 locations inside the USA, if one of those infected the entire network it would be hard to determine where it was coming from.
When I said hard to determine meaning it might take a few hours not a few days or weeks, but a few hours in a major network is big dollars, suppose the NYSE went down in the middle of the day for 3-4 hours or a major airline, bank or telco....it could be completely fixed in a few hours but would still have caused a major disruption.
I was working at General Dynamics when a high-level manager accessed his personal email from work, clicked on a link in a hacker’s email and shut down the entire network worldwide. When I talked to the people running the network, they wouldn’t tell me who it was, but they mentioned nothing was going to happen to him...meaning somebody “in the family.” It was an incredibly stupid thing to do, and we’d all been trained not to do the things he did...accessing personal email. Clicking on dubious stuff. That was a firing offense for anyone who wasn’t “in the family.” Likewise, ANY accusation of racism by a black against a white got the white summarily fired...unless, he was “in the family” in which case it was ignored. And, probably, the accuser was put on the layoff list.
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