Computer Virus Hits Newspapers Coast-to-Coast, Affects Printing (nbcnews.com) 57
A computer virus hit newspaper printing plants in Los Angeles and at Tribune Publishing newspapers across the country. From a report: Tribune Publishing said Saturday night that malware affected its ability to print newspapers across its chain of outlets, including the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, the Baltimore Sun and the Orlando Sentinel. Many subscribers to the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune, which were previously owned by Tribune Publishing and still share some production technology with the company, stepped into a chilly sunny morning Saturday only to find empty doorsteps. The computer malware was detected Friday and "impacted some back-office systems which are primarily used to publish and produce newspapers across our properties," said Marisa Kollias, Tribune communications vice president, in a statement.
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Windows
I subscribe to one of their papers (Score:1)
Newspaper? (Score:2)
Re: Newspaper? (Score:5, Funny)
No, youâ(TM)ll find that in a roll next to your toilet.
Paper (Score:2)
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Don't you people get tons of store flyers printed on paper like us in Canada?
The virus Also affected some web versions (Score:4, Informative)
Specificaly:
"The digital replica edition of the Union-Tribune was also affected. The company is working to restore that version this morning."
Granted, you could use the web to get your information and news somewhere else...
But, if for whatever reason you were a subscriber of the SD union tribune, and/or wanted to see the SD union tribune, the web was not there to save the day.
Source:
https://www.sandiegouniontribu... [sandiegouniontribune.com]
I find it kind of funny (Score:1)
You know, knocking out propaganda outlets and all, but this is another reason not to have monopolies. A single virus with a short list of targets will burn down the whole house.
Not to worry (Score:2)
Not to worry- the virus only attacks prestigious, well-regarded publishers, so Slashdot is safe. :)
(I'm kidding, kidding I tell you!)
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The Cancer that's killing the Internet (Score:2)
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...and apparently nothing can stop it?
Are you serious? Stupid shit like this is EASILY preventable, but stupid people doing stupid things MAKE this happen. Normally, I wouldn't be promoting blaming the victims. But this isn't a case of the newpapers being victims of outsiders, despite outsiders having written the virus. This is a case of the newspapers doing it to themselves.
After all these years, there is NO REASON for business operations getting viruses. If they are still getting viruses on their business computers, it is their own faul
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What ever you do don't mention Windows :] (Score:3)
Programmers worked to isolate the bug [latimes.com]
I would have thought the solution would be to patch the OS then deploy the patched OS to the desktops.
Shudder! (Score:1)
Think of all the bird cages left unlined and dogs left untrained by the lack of the cherished tools published by LATimes et al.
{O.O}
Newspaper printing? (Score:2)
Is that still a thing?