Delta Air Lines Down Worldwide: Why it’s never called “Corporate Sabotage”
Corporate sabotage and theft have been going on as long as companies have existed
SOTN Editor’s Note:
Anyone who has ever used GoDaddy.com as a hosting service knows how often that company falls victim to corporate sabotage. Granted, sometimes the sabotage originates from a one-man company in the hacker’s basement … of his parent’s home! Nevertheless, these disgruntled cyber-crackerjacks know that GoDaddy is the biggest behemoth in the web hosting marketplace and, therefore, has a LOT of business to give up; or rather take from. Point of fact is that the more outages and down time that GoDaddy experiences, the more the customer base will flee and never come back. Truly, then, a hacker’s paradise.
With this crucial understanding it ought to be quite easy to see how easy it now is for one corporation to sabotage another corporate competitor. With the pervasive interpenetration of computing technology throughout Corporate America and beyond, it is now a cinch to hack and sabotage operations of companies big and small. Sabotage can, and does, also take the form of other types completely outside of the IT realm. As follows:
ANALYSIS: Chipotle is a victim of corporate sabotage…
Especially during these days of deep recession is the competition fiercer than ever. Because there are very few expanding markets anywhere, with the exception of the fictitious ones, the only place to manufacture growth is to steal it from your competitor. That’s exactly what is going on in every industry today, to the extent that business ethics have been relaxed, of course.
It’s common knowledge that the IT Industry is rife with such hacks of theft and attacks of sabotage. The cyber-rogues who started this whole business of hacks for hire sharpened their skills so that they could the be utilized on demand as hired guns. It was only a matter of time that they would be contracted by other industries, particularly those that have suffered the same fate as GoDaddy.
Was the Delta Airlines computer outage a case of corporate sabotage? The truth is that we’ll never know since the reigning SOP has been to virtually never report it. The corporate suits do not want to let the shareholders know just how vulnerable their operations truly are. The amount of damage or theft that can now be effectuated with a single keystroke is quite awesome. Hence, these types of extremely serious corporate crimes rarely make it into the mainstream media reports. When they do, however, there is usually a political agenda going on in the background, or foreign espionage is at work which must be exposed.
State of the Nation
August 8, 2016
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Delta Air Lines Flights Grounded World-Wide on Computer Outage
The No. 2 U.S. carrier by traffic said “our systems are down everywhere”
Delta is advising travelers to check the status of their flights this morning while the issue is being addressed. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES
By ROBERT WALL
The Wall Street Journal
LONDON— Delta Air Lines Inc. said Monday it has suffered a computer outage through its system, leaving passengers unable to check in and grounding departures globally.
The No. 2 U.S. carrier by traffic said via Twitter that “our systems are down everywhere.”
Delta said in a statement it had “experienced a computer outage that has impacted flights scheduled for this morning. Flights awaiting departure are currently delayed. Flights en route are operating normally.”
The airline’s shares were hit last week when the airline reported a sharper than expected drop in passenger unit revenue for July. Shares in Delta are down more than 25% this year amid a wider slump in airline shares over concern of overcapacity.
Delta said it was working to fix the issue and advised travelers to check the status of their flights this morning while the issue is being addressed.
Computer glitches disrupting airline passengers aren’t unusual, though they can have knock-on effects that last long after technical issues are resolved.
British Airways has been phasing in a new at-gate check-in system, at times snarling the processing of passengers. United Continental Holdings Inc. suffered repeated computer problems after United and Continental merged. Last month Southwest Airlines Co., the No. 4 U.S. airline by traffic, also suffered a tech outage grounding some flights.
U.S. airline passengers this year also have suffered under a shortage of staff to perform security checks, leading to long checkpoint lines and many passengers missing flights. The Transportation Security Administration, airports and airlines were forced scramble to cut wait times.
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/delta-air-lines-says-computers-down-everywhere-1470647527