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Comment Outsourcing and SAP, good combination (Score 2) 34

JLR has been owned since 2008 by Tata Group. The carmaker is not the only part of the sprawling conglomerate to have questions to answer after the hack: in 2023 JLR outsourced a huge part of its computer systems to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). TCS is one of the biggest outsourcing companies in the world and makes the bulk of the dividends paid out to the Tata family’s holding company. TCS has been at the centre of the response to the hack that has crippled JLR, with a large number of employees scrambling to work out the source of the intrusion. TCS did not respond to requests for comment. Under the five-year, £800m contract agreed in 2023, TCS and JLR planned to “rapidly transform, simplify, and manage its digital and IT estate, supporting its broader strategic business transformation”. TCS runs large parts of JLR’s key computer systems, ranging from its networks to data connections, and, crucially, its cybersecurity. Part of the reimagine strategy required more flexible software to enable the luxury carmaker to produce Range Rovers in precisely the configuration demanded by the global rich paying £120,000 plus – all while retaining the efficiency of a high-volume factory. “I would argue that JLR’s software is probably more complex than Nasa putting a spacecraft into space,” said one supplier (with perhaps a touch of hyperbole). “When it works it’s a thing of wonder. This has exposed it.” One of TCS’s jobs was to manage the upgrade of JLR factory systems to the latest software from the German company SAP. https://www.theguardian.com/bu...

Submission + - US Secret Service 'dismantles telecommunications threat' (bbc.co.uk)

mrspoonsi writes: The US Secret Service says it has dismantled a network of more than 300 SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards in the New York area that were capable of crippling telecom systems.

The devices were "concentrated within 35 miles of the global meeting of the UN General Assembly now under way in New York City" and an investigation has been launched, it adds in a press statement.

The Secret Service says the dangers posed included "disabling cell phone towers, enabling denial of services attacks, and facilitating anonymous, encrypted communication between potential threat actors and criminal enterprises".

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