Server Attack Stops the Presses at US Newspaper Chain (augustafreepress.com) 24
They publish 77 newspapers in 26 U.S. states, according to Wikipedia. But this week a "cybersecurity event" at the newspapers' parent company "disrupted systems and networks," according to an article at one of their news sites which quotes an email sent to employees by the publishing company's CEO. "We have notified law enforcement of the situation."
And the company "has not released print or e-editions in most markets this week," according to the Augusta Free Press, "originally telling subscribers the outage was due to a server issue," The CEO said the company is also working to identify "additional steps we can take to help prevent something like this from happening again." The computer server appears to have compromised [last] Monday morning. No timeline has been announced for when news operations will return to normal publication schedules. According to a report in The News Virginian and published on the websites of the affected papers nationwide, the company is now producing, printing and delivering back issues, indicating at least some progress on printing and layout front...
Unfortunately, the cybersecurity attack on its server wasn't the only bad news for Lee Enterprises this week... In addition to the estimated $16.7 million the enterprise reported it lost in the last quarter, it has also gutted the staff of its newspapers as it appears to shift its focus toward more successful digital operations.
And the company "has not released print or e-editions in most markets this week," according to the Augusta Free Press, "originally telling subscribers the outage was due to a server issue," The CEO said the company is also working to identify "additional steps we can take to help prevent something like this from happening again." The computer server appears to have compromised [last] Monday morning. No timeline has been announced for when news operations will return to normal publication schedules. According to a report in The News Virginian and published on the websites of the affected papers nationwide, the company is now producing, printing and delivering back issues, indicating at least some progress on printing and layout front...
Unfortunately, the cybersecurity attack on its server wasn't the only bad news for Lee Enterprises this week... In addition to the estimated $16.7 million the enterprise reported it lost in the last quarter, it has also gutted the staff of its newspapers as it appears to shift its focus toward more successful digital operations.
Dear Clowns (Score:5, Insightful)
The name of the affected party belongs in the headline or the first paragraph, not the last paragraph
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Came here to say the same thing. Really sloppy.
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IDK, if it makes more slashdotters actually read the whole summary rather than just the headline, maybe they're onto a winner?
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I can't speak for anyone else, but I read TFS. But I had to skim it to figure out who we were talking about, then skim it again once I knew that, and in the end it still wasn't an interesting summary as it had no information of interest, only some metareporting which didn't have any either.
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Ya got what you paid for.
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I suppose the reason Slashdot subscriptions were killed is that it would obligate B!zX to provide something like service to customers, and that's never ever happening.
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One would imagine an editor (Score:4, Insightful)
...would take more care with wording?
Headling implies a server crawled out of the server room and attacked someone/something
Sounds like poorly secured services fell victim to ransomware. Cutting spend on security is easy. Dealing with the fallout... will cost 10x as much as was saved.
Bet they also trimmed IT spend/staff to the bone and are now going to struggle to find recruits...
Re:One would imagine an editor (Score:5, Funny)
I've seen servers attack printing presses and it isn't pretty. The ink gets everywhere.
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Battlebots! Repurpose Edition
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No, what actually happened is the one guy who knows how to run the printing press went to a cafe and forgot to tip, and the server got pissed.
Disgruntled Employee (Score:1)
Should be easy to solve.
Sometimes folks get upset when they lose their job because of management failure.
Good plan... (Score:3)
That's an unusual definition of "successful."
After Fox News experienced an outage (Score:1, Troll)
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My Fox-addicted mom once pressed the wrong button and was "stuck with" CNN for a few weeks. "They rarely say nice things about Trump. So mean."
Define "successful" (Score:2)
"[...] shift its focus toward more successful digital operations."
Hmm. Define "successful".
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And note how I acknowledge and apologise for the dupe, unlike, say,
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"Hmm. Define "successful"."
Losing money at a slower rate.
Audusta Free Press? Who cares (Score:2)
What's the "parent company"?
Single point of failure is something the financial mavens that aggregated these papers don't seem to know about.
to funny! (Score:2)
Punished for being stupid (Score:2)
More stupid people punished for trusting their corporate fortunes to Microsoft. The tears, they do not come.
who is "they" (Score:2)
First word. Or do I have to contact law enforcement to find out. Come on, exitors, sorry I meant editors or this will be the one and only time I will ask for a refund.