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Not Good. John Deere needs to do better than that. Two years ago, Kioti USA headquarters server was hacked, quite easily I may add, and their entire server was locked and would only be unlocked after a ransom was paid. Kioti decided not to pay, and spent over 3 months rebuilding their entire server. Even today, Kioti Dadong server in Korea is wide open right now. I think most of these Ag companies lack updated thinking regarding security protocols.
 
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Not Good. John Deere needs to do better than that. Two years ago, Kioti USA headquarters server was hacked, quite easily I may add, and their entire server was locked and would only be unlocked after a ransom was paid. Kioti decided not to pay, and spent over 3 months rebuilding their entire server. Even today, Kioti Dadong server in Korea is wide open right now. I think most of these Ag companies lack updated thinking regarding security protocols.
I know almost nothin about it but.....

I read that security is an after thought, at best in most products. They were talking about networked/wired toys etc with zero security.
 
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Security is a myth.
 
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IT security (and IT in general) at many of these companies suffers the same problem as user manuals - they think anyone can do it because “how hard could it be?” thus they don’t want to pay a professional. And I mean a real pro, not just some guy who‘s built a few PCs and knows how to map a drive. You look at something like the Solarwinds attack and that was state of the art. If you as a company want to stand any kind of chance at all, you have to be just as sophisticated. Like with everything, no security is bulletproof, but until IT security is seen as truly mission critical, these companies will continue to be easy targets.
 
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It's certainly possible Amazon has been hacked, but besides their own online marketing sales, they also provide the largest server capacity for independent business websites. So they must have the most reliable servers in the industry, and that requires a dedicated IT staff that is both smart and fully updated to thwart hacking attempts. I am sure they are targeted on a daily basis.
 
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It's certainly possible Amazon has been hacked, but besides their own online marketing sales, they also provide the largest server capacity for independent business websites. So they must have the most reliable servers in the industry, and that requires a dedicated IT staff that is both smart and fully updated to thwart hacking attempts. I am sure they are targeted on a daily basis.

I would agree. They have to be a huge target.

My guess - like you - is Amazon has top notch IT folks. Their entire business is based on IT that is invisible to the customer. You find a product, click buy-it-now and the thing shows up a day or two later.

All the IT behind that is not simple.

MoKelly
 
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Everybody has been hacked, just depends on what you consider a hack. Is phishing a hack? Meh, they usually call it that. Hacking isn’t like it is on TV where it’s a pink haired 20-something hippie chick banging away at keyboard. What’s really crazy is you look at the firewalls in front of major sites from any of the top 5 and it’s not uncommon to see hundreds of thousands of targeted attacks every day. Or more. It’s mind blowing to see these systems just hammered relentlessly 24x7. I half way joke that if you’re not sure whether we’ve ever acquired alien technology, you will be once you understand what some of these systems are capable of today.
 
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It's certainly possible Amazon has been hacked, but besides their own online marketing sales, they also provide the largest server capacity for independent business websites. So they must have the most reliable servers in the industry, and that requires a dedicated IT staff that is both smart and fully updated to thwart hacking attempts. I am sure they are targeted on a daily basis.
I cant verify, but heard they were chosen to handle the cloud for the US Dept of Defense. Not so sure that’s a good idea.
 

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