Glasgow City Council online services crippled following cyberattack

A cyberattack on Glasgow City Council is causing massive disruption with a slew of its digital services unavailable. The local authority has confirmed the attack started on June 19 and attributed it to a supply chain issue involving a third-party contractor's supplier. A council statement said: "Early in the morning of …

[Anonymous Coward]

AC, because...

... the mask fits the situation...

[munnoch]

Future Processions

Thats quite an essential service for certain groups...

[gryphon]

Re: Future Processions

I think the bin calendar is the most important one.

We have 5 different bins all on different collection cycles so one needs a little helping hand.

[TimMaher]

Hackers beware.

They may become subject to a Glasgow kiss.

[gryphon]

Scottish Cyber Coordination Centre (SC3)

Who knew we had one of those.

I wonder if this is the usual Scottish Govt. duplication of effort idea because there is no way the UK wide body can be half as good as our little parochial one so we'll reinvent the wheel.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Scottish Cyber Coordination Centre (SC3)

If you think duplication of effort like this or fragmentation of things once homogenous (like the NHS) are an issue you should see efficiency in actions in US across Federal/State/County/Town Government/DMV/Law and Order/Health/Social Security as just a few examples. 50 slightly different sets of the same thing for no reason…. and crazy shit like no mandatory car insurance or ‘no fault’ insurance in some states <shrug>

With much irony lots duplicated/overlapping so the States can’t have an authoritarian Federal Government stomp on their liberties and Constitution and tell them what to do.

<The NRA missed its primary reason to exist to rise up and form a ‘well formed militia’ to depose Agent Orange>

[Tron]

Re: Scottish Cyber Coordination Centre (SC3)

quote: Who knew we had one of those.

Don't feel bad. There are endless govt. quangos out there that nobody has ever heard of.

[BartyFartsLast]

I'm not seeing anything about the burning of the college of art, has that been cancelled?

[Phil Kingston]

And all of a sudden they'll find budget for better cybersec

[Anonymous Coward]

More Offshoring ??

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/glasgow-city-council-axed-staff-34024092.amp

My bet is the savings on Good Scottish jobs will be outspent by mopping this up.

Across IT Fuck-up’s and Breaches … there seems almost a direct correlation to the causation.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: More Offshoring ??

Unlikely, the affected servers are on a managed contract (Onyx?). The inhouse, then not-so-inhouse IT would usually only handle the "application" side of that, so would leave the actual servers to someone else. Bizarre setup.

[Anonymous Coward]

Pupil Absence

Hmmmm

Coincidence?

[Tron]

Modest proposal.

If they can seamlessly switch to human beings on phones and paper forms, then a pat on the back for their resilience and they can recover all costs from the third party supplier for allowing the hackers in.

If they cannot seamlessly switch to human beings on phones and paper forms, then fire anyone from the council with any responsibility for resilience. Those dispensed with can contribute a chunk of their personal assets (savings, house, car) towards the cost of fixing this and compensating those affected. The third party supplier can pick up the bill for the rest.

[nobody who matters]

Reading the title, I felt that a quote from a bowl of petunias would be appropriate here :)