Re:Hotel ransomed by hackers as guests locked in rooms
by dredmorbius on Sunday January 29, 2017 @01:18AM
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At a few thousand Euro each instance, vs., say, EUR50k to EUR500k for a full re-specification and implementation of all hotel security systems, that's a bargain price.
(Of course, they're also a piggy bank every time the hackers need cash.)
(This assumes the hackers aren't, say, hotel management or employees skimming the operation themselves via hack threats, say, for money laundering purposes.)
Re:Hotel ransomed by hackers as guests locked in rooms
by cpncrunch on Sunday January 29, 2017 @10:45AM
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No they dont need to rebuild it. Just get the original developer to fix it if its a problem with the system. Or secure their network. Neither will cost anywhere near 50k.
"Hotel management said that they have now been hit three times by cybercriminals"
"we had no other choice. Neither police nor insurance help you in this case."
Do they not see the problem here? Perhaps they should have paid the thousands of euros to a security expert to fix their crappy system, rather than paying the hacker to do the same thing again.