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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA serious outage of muliti trucking software systems is occurring.
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Update: As of 19:30 the software systems are still down. I can see all our units on a digital map and over 1/2 our units are parked. I deal directly with the company owner (I was one of the first three company drivers), and he told me he had no idea if it was an ongoing service attack. The outage seems centered around a transportation management program with the name of "SAP".
Both our asset side (Trucks) and the loads the brokerage side are being turned away from fairly large companies. The industry uses multi software platforms to coordinate between manufactures, customer, and the transportation (us).
We have one of 4 of our suites went down late afternoon. Loads are being turned away from Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and I'm sure it a wider outage.
The odd thing to me is that the outage appears to be either across multi-programs, or a sub program that is key to helping them interact. Everyone is telling the drivers it will be fixed in the AM, cool, if this goes on for 24-48 hours there will be store shortages starting to pop up.
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elleng
(130,895 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)often the second outage is necessary to address the first one
I am now out of my truck and am the "Night Dispatch" so I can barely use my end of it.
2naSalit
(86,600 posts)And they were not able to see anyone for anything because their file system is down. It seems everyone here uses the cloud for everything. I know the county government does, perhaps the state Health Dept. does too.
Are these transportation systems on the cloud? Could that be a problem if the cloud is hacked?
Can the cloud be hacked?
denbot
(9,899 posts)We store, and share documents internally via cloud. There are no issues as far as I can tell.
getagrip_already
(14,750 posts)Basically an attacker gets into a suppliers systems and inject a payload that will be installed when an update to the suppliers app is distributed.
It's insidious because the suppliers updates are considered to be trusted.
It has been successful dozens of times, from maersk to solarwinds.
If that's what this is, take up a hobby. It may be a while.
flying_wahini
(6,594 posts)Manifestations ..keep telling people to buy gifts for Christmas early!
NQAS
(10,749 posts)Zero day code by John Birmingham. Chinese attack food distribution software systems. Apocalypse ensues.
3Hotdogs
(12,375 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,050 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,375 posts)Right now, as we are reading this, Captain -- Sorry Commander Kirk is preparing to reenter space to do battle with them fukkers.
enough
(13,259 posts)denbot
(9,899 posts)I come on shift at 19:00 EST.