Austria’s four-star, 111-year-old Romantik Seehotel Jagerwirt mentioned that its internal systems were recently breached. Hackers disabled both the hotel’s electronic door locks and the reservation system. The attack against the facility means that the new keys couldn’t be created and also reservations couldn’t be checked or confirmed.
Hotel has to pay 2 Bitcoins (almost $2,000) to get control of the systems back to the hotel.
“The house was totally booked with 180 guests, we had no other choice,” hotel managing director Christoph Brandstaetter told The Local. “Neither police nor insurance help you in this case.”
This was the third cyber attack for the hotel, Brandstaetter said. It also faced fourth attack as new computers were placed along with new security standards.
“The restoration of our system after the first attack in summer has cost us several thousand Euros,” Brandstaetter said. “We did not get any money from the insurance so far because none of those to blame could be found.”
“We are planning at the next room refurbishment for old-fashioned door locks with real keys,” he said. “Just like 111 years ago at the time of our great-grandfathers.”
As per the recent research survey of nearly 1,000 enterprise IT buyers, half believe that the security is crucial. Still many are moving towards IOT. Around 90 percent of enterprises plan to increase IoT spending. The research showed that the IoT-related spending will increase by 33 percent.
Other finding include:
Fifty four percent said a lack of trained IoT staff is not an issue for their organizations.
Forty six percent said they’re having difficulty filling IoT-related positions.
“When it comes to IoT adoption, pragmatism rules,” 451 Research director Laura DiDio said in a statement. “The survey data indicates enterprises currently use IoT for practical technology purposes that have an immediate and tangible impact on daily operational business efficiencies, economies of scale and increasing the revenue stream.”
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