Computer Virus Cripples iPhone Chipmaker TSMC’s Plants

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. was hit with a virus Friday, halting several of its factories and potentially disrupting chipmaking for Apple’s next iPhones. While the virus wasn’t introduced by a hacker, it did manage to infect some of the company’s fabrication tools. Several of its factories won’t restart until at least Sunday.

“TSMC has been attacked by viruses before, but this is the first time a virus attack has affected our production lines,” Chief Financial Officer Lora Ho told Bloomberg News by phone. She wouldn’t talk about how much revenue it would lose as a result of the disruption, or whether the facilities affected were involved in making iPhone chips.
 
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How does a production line get infected? Are those machines connected to the internet? Do these machines run Windows? Someone brought their USB stick full of porn and used a monitor on one of the production screens to watch?
 
How does a production line get infected? Are those machines connected to the internet? Do these machines run Windows? Someone brought their USB stick full of porn and used a monitor on one of the production screens to watch?

Likely production equipment that is still running Windows XP and is connected to their existing network.
 
Just recently Apple has passed the big T bucks then this happens.

Talk about bad apple....
 
people dont need another iphone

those who do should seek mental help

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Jesus Christ does every fucking article have to reference Apple just to get clicks? TSMC makes shit for damn near everyone, but hey let’s make another Apple article because people like bitching...
 
people dont need another iphone

those who do should seek mental help


So ALL iphone users are mentally retarded sheep?

I'm still on a 5c.. That was bought used. I like my iphone because it does exactly what I need and isn't a lag fest like most droids I've used. My phone shouldn't need 3GBs of RAM and an 8 core cpu just to be usuable.
 
So ALL iphone users are mentally retarded sheep?

I'm still on a 5c.. That was bought used. I like my iphone because it does exactly what I need and isn't a lag fest like most droids I've used. My phone shouldn't need 3GBs of RAM and an 8 core cpu just to be usuable.


Apple fanboi alert!!

If you are leaving all the standard blotware installed yes a phone can be laggy. Nothing that disabling (no root) or uninstalling via root can't fix. If you can't manage your device you shouldn't own one. Old Iphones can turn to crap with the latest updates too.
 
And only one idiot with a phone to bring it all crashing down.

That's odd, I keep hearing that Apple is the problem, but how many updates do last gen Android phones get from the manufacturers?

Not all of us want to be bothered with having to install an OS over the factory software that should be taken care of by the maker. At least Apple makes the effort to update old phones, as long as the hardware is capable.
 
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