Oh no, what a rough blow: Cosco at a lossco over ransomware tossco

International shipping giant Cosco says it is recovering from an apparent ransomware infection on its American computer network. The biz said late Wednesday that its freight shipping operations will not be impacted, but phone and email systems were down in the US, Canada, and in some of the corp's Panama, and Peru and other …

[GnuTzu]

Nothing Capsized

I wonder if they have security controls for hypothetical hacks appearing in movies.

[ecarlseen]

Re: Nothing Capsized

As long as Penn Jillette isn't their NOC guy then they should be OK.

[Jay Lenovo]

Yahoo to the Rescue

A majority of the US emergency contacts are through Yahoo.

Thankfully ransomware has been abolished there...

[Mark 85]

Re: Yahoo to the Rescue

And Hotmail. Sometimes, the workaround will be worse than the problem.

[Anonymous Coward]

Perhaps someone learned a thing or three from Maersk's experience.

[EnviableOne]

Maresk went on a burn and rebuild trip though, they literally rebuilt their entire infrastucture after nyetia, cosco might avoid that hit, but they need better contingencies. how about a gsuite/exchange online hosted sub domain?

Seriously, can they not just come out an tell us what it is, just in case, so we dont have our eyes on the on-call phone all weekend.