Boeing’s Jeppesen subsidiary hit with potential ransomware attack

This is big - Jeppesen products are central to a lot of airline and flight ops.

I went on site in mmm 2018? to help them deploy some APM for the backend of their nav, maps and scheduling products. It was - like much of that kind of software- a mix of exceedingly awesome stuff with craptacularly integrated and poorly integrated systems, with ancient dependencies and strange feeds everywhere. In other words pretty normal stuff in corporate world, and the kind of systems that are hard to un-ransom...

Interesting. I updated my charting application’s database last night without issue.<p>A different press release I read mentioned issues processing NOTAMs. Generally airlines hire companies like Jeppesen to give a feed of this data. I wonder if we’ll see disruption today.

What I never understand about these ransomware attacks is why are critical systems connected to the internet at all? (Or have USB ports, etc.)<p>Or conversely, if a system isn&#x27;t worth the hassle of air-gapping it, should it even be considered critical?

How could that be everyone is using 14 character passwords that change every 90. Totally bulletproof security…