<story><title>Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/06/27/ransomware-spreads-rapidly-hitting-power-companies-banks-airlines-metro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nothrabannosir</author><text>Great. Maybe we can finally put a price on lack of security protocol.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>Maersk is down. Their main site says:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Maersk IT systems are down

    We can confirm that Maersk IT systems are down across multiple sites
    and business units due to a cyber attack. We continue to assess the
    situation. The safety of our employees, our operations and customer&amp;#x27;s
    business is our top priority. We will update when we have more information.[1]
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Maersk is the largest shipping company in the world. 600 ships, with ship space for 3.8 million TEU of containers.  (The usual 40-foot container counts as two TEUs.) If this outage lasts more than a few hours, port operations worldwide will be disrupted.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.maersk.com&amp;#x2F;en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.maersk.com&amp;#x2F;en&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text>The article says the ransomware affects even patched Windows boxes.  Perhaps what you mean to say is, &amp;quot;Great.  Maybe we can finally put a price on using Windows.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/06/27/ransomware-spreads-rapidly-hitting-power-companies-banks-airlines-metro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nothrabannosir</author><text>Great. Maybe we can finally put a price on lack of security protocol.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>Maersk is down. Their main site says:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Maersk IT systems are down

    We can confirm that Maersk IT systems are down across multiple sites
    and business units due to a cyber attack. We continue to assess the
    situation. The safety of our employees, our operations and customer&amp;#x27;s
    business is our top priority. We will update when we have more information.[1]
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Maersk is the largest shipping company in the world. 600 ships, with ship space for 3.8 million TEU of containers.  (The usual 40-foot container counts as two TEUs.) If this outage lasts more than a few hours, port operations worldwide will be disrupted.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.maersk.com&amp;#x2F;en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.maersk.com&amp;#x2F;en&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>merrickread</author><text>I dream of seeing a &amp;quot;security first&amp;quot; development process adopted ..</text></comment>