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Cyber Security Breech

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Cyber Security Breech
Posted by Victrola1 on Tuesday, November 21, 2017 1:38 PM

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Sacramento Regional Transit is the one being taken for a ride on this night, by a computer hacker.

That hacker forced RT to halt its operating systems that take credit card payments, and assigns buses and trains to their routes.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/11/20/sacramento-regional-transit-systems-hit-by-hacker/

How much havoc could a hacker inflict if they got this deep into a class one freight railroad's data system? 

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Posted by daveklepper on Wednesday, November 22, 2017 6:53 AM

Has anyone else read about the Uber data-base, drivers and customers, hack?

 

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, November 22, 2017 7:53 AM

daveklepper
Has anyone else read about the Uber data-base, drivers and customers, hack?

It made the evening national news yesterday.  I have never Uber'd.

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

              

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Posted by daveklepper on Wednesday, November 22, 2017 8:29 AM

How are those readers who have used Uber coping with this news?

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