Gas Prices After The Cyber Attack (by Russia?)

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Had to wait in line for 35 minutes to get gas, only a couple of stations have had around me and I paid 2.99/gallon.
 

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Just read on Fox News that the Colonial Pipeline paid a $4M ransom to get back online. Guaranteed more hacks to infrastructure will come with Biden's weak response, a weak effort to strengthen security, and corporations' willingness to pay ransoms. It used to be African pirates but they were eventually curtailed due to international cooperation and heavy responses, now its Russian hackers/gangs. JMO.
 

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That's nothing. Paid $8 a gallon in Orange County, CA during Obama's first year. $40 to fill a Harley gas tank....

Hell when Sandy hit up here I'd pay $20 a gallon but gas didn't even exist for 2 weeks, neither did electricity, 4G or any other communication. I don't think this is bad, hasn't effected us at all as far I see but a price hike isn't too bad if there is the option to buy at all. The Speedway I went to this morning did say the one up the block was out of gas but didn't look to confirm.
 
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Just read on Fox News that the Colonial Pipeline paid a $4M ransom to get back online. Guaranteed more hacks to infrastructure will come with Biden's weak response, a weak effort to strengthen security, and corporations' willingness to pay ransoms. It used to be African pirates but they were eventually curtailed due to international cooperation and heavy responses, now its Russian hackers/gangs. JMO.
America’s Electric Grid Has a Vulnerable Back Door—and Russia Walked Through It

One morning in March 2017, Mike Vitello’s work phone lighted up. Customers wanted to know about an odd email they had just received. What was the agreement he wanted signed? Where was the attachment?

Mr. Vitello had no idea what they were talking about. The Oregon construction company where he works, All-Ways Excavating USA, checked it out. The email was bogus, they told Mr. Vitello’s contacts. Ignore it.

Then, a few months later, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security dispatched a team to examine the company’s computers. You’ve been attacked, a government agent told Mr. Vitello’s colleague, Dawn Cox. Maybe by Russians. They were trying to hack into the power grid.

“They were intercepting my every email,” Mr. Vitello says. “What the hell? I’m nobody.”

“It’s not you. It’s who you know,” says Ms. Cox.

The cyberattack on the 15-person company near Salem, Ore., which works with utilities and government agencies, was an early thrust in the worst known hack by a foreign government into the nation’s electric grid. It set off so many alarms that U.S. officials took the unusual step in early 2018 of publicly blaming the Russian government.

A reconstruction of the hack reveals a glaring vulnerability at the heart of the country’s electric system. Rather than strike the utilities head on, the hackers went after the system’s unprotected underbelly—hundreds of contractors and subcontractors like All-Ways who had no reason to be on high alert against foreign agents. From these tiny footholds, the hackers worked their way up the supply chain. Some experts believe two dozen or more utilities ultimately were breached.

The scheme’s success came less from its technical prowess—though the attackers did use some clever tactics—than in how it exploited trusted business relationships using impersonation and trickery.

The hackers planted malware on sites of online publications frequently read by utility engineers. They sent out fake résumés with tainted attachments, pretending to be job seekers. Once they had computer-network credentials, they slipped through hidden portals used by utility technicians, in some cases getting into computer systems that monitor and control electricity flows.

The Wall Street Journal pieced together this account of how the attack unfolded through documents, computer records and interviews with people at the affected companies, current and former government officials and security-industry investigators.

IN THE CROSSHAIRS
Russian hackers seeking to infiltrate the power grid targeted companies operating in at least 24 states, Canada and the U.K.
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Source: documents; interviews with people at the affected companies, government officials and security-industry investigators


Early victims
In the summer of 2016, U.S. intelligence officials saw signs of a campaign to hack American utilities, says Jeanette Manfra, assistant secretary of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity and communications program. The tools and tactics suggested the perpetrators were Russian. Intelligence agencies notified Homeland Security, Ms. Manfra says.

In December 2016, an FBI agent showed up at a low-rise office in Downers Grove, Ill., less than an hour west of Chicago. It was home to CFE Media LLC, a small, privately held company that publishes trade journals with titles such as “Control Engineering” and “Consulting-Specifying Engineer.”


The U.S. government hasn’t named the utilities or other companies that were targeted. The Journal identified small businesses such as Commercial Contractors Inc., in Ridgefield, Wash., and Carlson Testing Inc., in Tigard, Ore., along with big utilities such as the federally owned Bonneville Power Administration and Berkshire Hathaway’s PacifiCorp. Two of the energy companies targeted build systems that supply emergency power to Army bases.

The Russian campaign triggered an effort by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Homeland Security to retrace the steps of the attackers and notify possible victims. Some companies were unaware they had been compromised until government investigators came calling, and others didn’t know they had been targeted until contacted by the Journal.

“What Russia has done is prepare the battlefield without pulling the trigger,” says Robert P. Silvers, former assistant secretary for cyber policy at Homeland Security and now a law partner at Paul Hastings LLP.

The press office at the Russian Embassy in Washington didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment. Russia has previously denied targeting critical infrastructure.


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America’s Electric Grid Has a Vulnerable Back Door—and Russia Walked Through It
 

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Does that apply to supply and demand?

Much like a mark up on a vehicle?

Ha! That's up to the local officials to decide.

People used to load up semi's full of generators to haul South after a hurricane and sell for good money. Officials started seizing the generators claiming profiteering, those entrepreneurs stopped coming, no extra generators for sale....nobody paid high, but nobody bought a generator either, which is better?????
 

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Ha! That's up to the local officials to decide.

People used to load up semi's full of generators to haul South after a hurricane and sell for good money. Officials started seizing the generators claiming profiteering, those entrepreneurs stopped coming, no extra generators for sale....nobody paid high, but nobody bought a generator either, which is better?????
But that sounds different thoe. The sole intent was to rip off people in a time need.

The gas station situation is different. The actual supply is low and some stations are actually out of fuel. I would see supply and demand apply to this.
 

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