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QTPod Self-Serve Terminal Network Crashes Leaving Hundreds of Airports Without Fuel Over The Weekend
Saturday morning, May 30th, QTPod's network that processes all of their self-serve units crashed. Hundreds of airports not having mobile fueling trucks or personnel have been left without fuel during the weekend and there is no estimated timeframe when the network will be back online. (www.qtpod.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
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Used sparingly, tech is great! BUT, when it is integrated into EVERY aspect of ones life, it WILL be the down fall of the human race! Planes. trains, auto's, your HOUSE (as in a 'Smart' House), utilities (WATER, gas, elect), people putting their WHOLE life on their cell phones; and the LONG list goes on. When all of these Tech Systems FAIL, and they WILL, MOST of the human race is SCREWED! And 'failure' INCLUDES an EMP! (whether it's 'man-made' or from the Sun!). We're going in the WRONG direction, People!! We need to go BACK to basics! "Just because you CAN, does NOT mean that you SHOULD!".
"Welcome aboard TranZap Airline flight 101. This flight is entirely controlled by our computers, there are no pilots. So sit back and relax, nothing can go wrong......go wrong......go wrong.....go wrong.....go wrong.............."
Right?! lol I mean, really now! OK.....raise your hands.....How many people have had their home computers screw up so many times, that you've lost count?? And people (the morons) will soon be living in 'Smart Cities'? WHAT could POSSIBLY go wrong?! Even ONE 'high tech' ('Smart') building where one needs a code, pass card or BIOMETRICS to even get OUT of the building! If that building is on FIRE, and the 'system' FAILS......you're TOAST (literally)!!
The system does not work well. Goes down quite a bit. The terminal will enter incorrect data. Then too why base your business transaction system on a Windows system? Need something more robust and less easily hacked.
The two largest retail hacks ever, that hit Home Depot and Target for 1,000,000's of credit card numbers was due in part to Windows. Anyone can buy a copy along with the virus scanners and hack away until they perfect a solution. In the above cases, the hackers simply disguised their own rogue copy of the svchost service, which Windows has many running copies of to do various things. Whats one more copy and who would even notice? They padded it appropriately to pass the virus scanner checksum tests and managed to get it installed on every terminal. This rogue program scanned memory for the easily identified Credit Card MSR Track 2 data string and sent it off to an edge server, also hacked, via ICMP network payloads, and then out to the hacker's systems. This hack went undetected for MONTHS. Now what does this rant have to do with QTPod? When you base a mission critical business system on Windows you have no obscurity, your O/S is an open book and you are vulnerable to an O/S based attack. Clearly the length and breath of QTPods's outage means this was more than a tripped breaker in a computer room. I am thankful my airport still has an M3000 terminal and was unaffected.
Most POS systems (I use to think it stood for "piece of #2" not "point of sale") are Windows based unfortunately.
If it goes down so much, sounds like QTPod did their own in house system, which is idiotic.
If it goes down so much, sounds like QTPod did their own in house system, which is idiotic.