MGM is down, cybersecurity attack ongoing(casino.org) |
MGM is down, cybersecurity attack ongoing(casino.org) |
If I heard the name referring to a current company, I would think hotels/casinos/sportsbooks first. That said, the title could still be better.
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/amazon-mgm-merger-close-123...
Outlook handles their email.
> Thousands of guests at MGM Resorts in the Las Vegas strip have been locked out of their hotel rooms after the company was hit with a cyber attack, according to reports.
> MGM Resorts International has about 48,000 rooms on The Strip. The company's properties include Mandalay Bay, the Bellagio, Luxor and MGM Grand, among others.
> The outage, first detected on Sunday night, has affected company emails, reservations, booking, room keys and casino slot machines.
[1]: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12505921/MGM-Resort...
It's worth rewatching as a guilty pleasure, IMO. Feels quite alien compared to current fare. It's dumb but well-crafted, fun and glitzy and never takes itself too seriously. I miss that kind of show.
Surprisingly high production values for the time. It's available in 1080p with decent quality, somehow.
Though the article itself says details are scant, so it's just going to be speculation. I'd love to know what happened though.
other notables: Australia's crown resorts was hacked a while back (March 2023) https://gamblingindustrynews.com/news/australia/crown-potent...
Last week stake.com was hacked https://gamblingindustrynews.com/news/technology/stake-com-4... (apparently by Lazarus group according to FBI https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-identifies-lazar... )
...which doesn't eliminate them. Recent visits and timing would be impeccable.
Every day they are down is $$$$$$
https://www.casino.org/vitalvegas/mgm-resorts-receives-colos...
[0]: https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/mgm-resorts-release...
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140924040947/http://www.highbe...
[0] https://www.crutchfield.com/S-9Pd3SuUnpX0/p_158STHD100/Sony-...
Unfortunately there's a lot of post-production steps that take place between the original film and the finished show. Since the 90s/noughties many of those steps take place in digital systems after the film has been scanned at the chosen resolution. Here's some detail specific to Babylon 5 and HD conversion, for example:
https://www.engadget.com/2018-06-22-babylon-5-digital-video-...
Downside to HN not having editing and deleting, is I cant retract my misinformation. And I earned 7 votes for that nonsense. :/
They’re no longer considered a major U.S. studio but they release 8-10 films a year.
Best guess is that with the F1 races coming soon with what is expected to be the largest cashflow through Vegas ever, that MGM Resorts IT found issues in an audit in preparation for that massive event, found anomalies, and pulled the rip cord to shut everything down till they could sort out what systems were actually hit.
That is materially different than a massive hack effecting all these various systems though.
1. https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/mgm-re...
"MGM Resorts recently identified a cybersecurity issue affecting some of the Company’s systems. Promptly after detecting the issue, we quickly began an investigation with assistance from leading external cybersecurity experts,”
"We also notified law enforcement and took prompt action to protect our systems and data, including shutting down certain systems."
The systems are down due to MGM shutting them down, not the active attack shutting things down.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/14/russia-colonial-pip...
That is quite a guess!
It needs to work in a way where the key is saved to your phone so it can be accessed quickly and offline.
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/VICI/vici-properti...
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/VICI/vici-properti...
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/VICI/vici-properti...
Wonder if VICI assets are protected from having underfunded pensions of casino employee unions.
Insane. Who is competing with them on the Las Vegas Strip? Just Blackstone with Bellagio, Cosmo, and Aria? Those investors have the power to have practically all properties on the strip not compete with each other.
<Grant access to KEY_ID>
<Revoke access from KEY_ID>
And it would keep track internally so that if the central system went down it could still function with already issued keys until it is fixed.
I agree, thats why I figured if you can get away with fooling around with a lock, some wires and a laptop in the hallway, you can probably pick the backup key more discreetly.
When you want to revoke a key, you re-issue a new set with a higher revision number. When the guest checks out, you issue the next revision number to the next guest, effectively disabling the previous set.
You do all this as a fallback when the network fails. This way, you can still disable keys in real-time when people checkout of their room.
Assuming it does use asymmetric keys to prevent someone from creating counterfeit access cards, there would still be a window (if the network is unavailable) where the old key would continue to work until a new key is scanned the first time on the door lock?
I know other locks use Bluetooth from an app which isn’t supported by Apple Wallet.
...so they decide to hit casinos instead!
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There are definitely multiple solutions that don't depend on a server to authenticate every unlock.