Let them eat junk food: Major organic supplier to Whole Foods, Walmart, hit by cyberattack

North American grocery wholesaler United Natural Foods told regulators that a cyber incident temporarily disrupted operations, including its ability to fulfill customer orders. In a Monday filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the health food distribution giant said it "activated its incident response plan and …

[Doctor Syntax]

Total inability to shift unrefined pasta.

[wolfetone]

Total inability to sell unwashed pulses.

[MachDiamond]

One would hope this company has learned that computer security is cheaper than not being able to deliver and possibly losing some key accounts.

I have a load of different computers in my office set up to do different things. Some of that is to keep my Windows machine off the internet, the ability to run some older accounting software and to not having the 'production' machine on just to check email and commentard since it heats the room rather well in summer (can edit video like a boss, though). It also means that if any one of them goes down for some reason, I can still do other things and it's much easier to replace/repair since it won't take days to reload everything from backups. Hardware is almost free these days that can do basic tasks.

[Al fazed]

My personal opinion is that service industries could do well to follow your example.

I have numerous boxes available and boy do I need them.

Without unwanted intrusion from hackers, my Windose 10 box has now become useless, even at playing music files. Until a few months ago, this was my most powerful machine and most recent hardware which I used for video editing. Not anymore. It languishes now until I get around to hosing it ready for some Linux OS.

BUT !

Even this MX Linux box is becoming useless. IT decided one day that I now need to enter the master password, or press Ctrl D to boot the machine. Firefox now doesn't load when I click the icon once, or twice. It now needs three clicks........and it can't access it's own Bookmarks.

etc, etc, etc. FFS!

Who need hackers or ransomeware crew when we have OS developers and hardware manufacturers that can do the same job ? And are probably doing it (better ?) than the bad peeps.

SHEESH

ALF

[Doctor Syntax]

"One would hope this company has learned that computer security is cheaper than not being able to deliver and possibly losing some key accounts."

They all learn that in the end. Or I suppose they do, maybe no all.

As I keep saying, experience is a dear teacher but there are those who will learn by no other.