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Chip Giant TSMC Struggles With Virus Infections at its Factories (engadget.com)
Many of the tech products launching this fall might have just run into production setbacks. From a report: Giant chip manufacturer TSMC has warned that several of its fabrication plants suffered virus infections on August 3rd, disrupting production. Some of these plants recovered in a "short period of time," it said, but others wouldn't resume business as usual for "one day." The company dismissed claims that this was a hack, but didn't initially provide details about the virus or the potential infection path. TSMC promised more information on August 6th.
just china sending a message
C'mon, folks. Ditch Windows already!
I'm not saying it was America, Russia or China...
but it was aliens.
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I am certain that this is a small glitch, and will be resolved quite fast.
But nonetheless, it will serve as the perfect excuse for all sorts of manufacturers to either justify that the phones arrived late masking their own incompetence, or to slightly jack up the prices...
Ah, good times!
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Lemme guess... ms windows?
Maybe a shop like that should always run an industrial strength OS?
(Read: Unix)
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AC/DC playing in the background
Inmho, the backdoors, the spectre/meltdown variants, the cyberweapons that had the U.S. three letter agencies, etc. could be the responsible of facilitating the infections of viruses in the factories of TSMC.
I remembered it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
My new question is: why is TSMC being attacked?
Who are butthurt that they can't reach 7nm in time.
Mission critical ops on Windows???
As shareholder I'd consult a lawyer.
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
Is someone over at Intel getting desperate?
These factories, and broadly most factories making tech components, run a mishmash of ancient, unpatched copies of Windows, Linux, embedded systems, and PLCs together on a network mostly isolated from the internet. They end up getting contaminated by employees inserting USB drives and installing dictionary software or simply updating industrial software using their dirty drives from home. So itâ(TM)s not likely a cyber attack. Or if it is, itâ(TM)s one deployed in person.
My company worked in one such factory with QSMC (thus anon posting) and our machine got hit with nasty trojans and viruses so many times that eventually we epoxyed caps on all external USB ports and threw a lock on the case. Only then would the machine last more than a month without getting choked out by malware.
Now we only use windows PCs for prototyping and deploy as many locked down embedded systems as we can. Weâ(TM)re also migrating to Linux PCs because other manufacturers (not QSMC) are so tired of this shit that theyâ(TM)ve stopped allowing Windows in their factories at all.
... inserting dopant-level hardware trojans.
Yes, that actually is a thing, nowadays.
*Throws everything out of the window*
Somebody clicked the "Recompute Base Encryption Key Hash Button" ... FAKE A VIRUS ATTACK!
What, Air Force One doesn't have a bar?
Ezekiel 23:20
Putin uses his KGB minions to attack US assets like TSMC in favor of Russian Chipmakers.
More likely an Israeli chip maker attacking an adversary who was recently announced to be the producer of server chips that beat it on TDP and performance.
What are doing, running Windows on their machines that they use to get work done?
That seems retarded.
TSMC is NOT US, but Taiwan.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
What's wrong with Gary Busey? He's a national treasure.
President Donald J TRUMP kicked my dog!!
Some idiot probably opened an email attachment and hello ransomware!
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Obligatory: ditch Windows for Linux or at least MacOS inside the corporate perimeter like Google did. Whatever the perceived value of Windows, it just is not worth the never ending parade of fiascos such as this.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Most likely the hack was being done by the Chinese government looking to catch up on CPU manufacturing technology. Taiwan operates as an independent nation and the Chinese have made it very clear that they intend to retake the island and are putting plans in motion to make it happen. Economic warfare against Taiwan by mainland China makes sense. Additionally China has made massive leaps in catching up to the USA with CPU manufacturing but is still behind on die process. Hacking TSMC would give the Chinese CPU designers a leg up.
Intel's alien fanbois
C'mon Windy, everyone knows Taiwan is a part of the USA.
Most likely the hack was being done by the Chinese government looking to catch up on CPU manufacturing technology
No one can outmatch you on stupidity
Huawei, reportedly 'the spy company working for Chicom's PLA', needs TSMC to fab its Kirin cpu.
What good does it do for China if TSMC shuts down, bringing along Huawei, plus hundreds of other fabless joints from China?
Taiwan and Korea are both part of America. That's why Americans complain about the trade deficit with China but never give a second thought to the trade deficit with those 'countries'.
Go with Windows, Get Virus....
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