Does everybody have me on ignore or am I losing it? Thought I posted about the recovery but idk.
They did pay, restored from backups, and resumed pipeline Operations Wednesday night.
Hopefully they fixed their security issues so its not round two next week from a different group.
Hopefully they fixed their security issues so its not round two next week from a different group.
It certainly will. It happens to companies all day every day, just very few hit the news.Well sounds like this will happen again if that is the case.
YUP!Fox News reported that Colonial paid a $5M ransom to the hackers to get back online.
Latest I heard was it only affected Colonial's accounting department. The pipeline never needed to be turned off. The company was worried about billing issues with the system down.
Also, many online hacking groups said they have never heard of Darkside, and feel this was a CIA inside-job.
Your post does not scan.
If the billing mechanism of your local gas station was broken, would they need to turn off the pump or should they just give out free gas?
Just because you have not heard of a secret criminal organization, does it follow that the CIA committed a crime. If you are going to make such a wild claim, back it up with at least a scrap of facts.
So with zero evidence of CIA involvement, it must be them because of your unsupported feeling it was them.Screenshot attached for billing^
"RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA!!"
Believe what you want, about "hacker" involvement. CIA is not your friend.
Latest I heard was it only affected Colonial's accounting department. The pipeline never needed to be turned off. The company was worried about billing issues with the system down.
Also, many online hacking groups said they have never heard of Darkside, and feel this was a CIA inside-job.
Correct, but that is standard incident response procedure. Shut down and prevent the spread as a precaution. Shit would have been really bad if it spread to the operations side.
What "many online hacking groups" are you referring to? Security researchers have published many articles about the group and their affiliation with other well known groups. Not refuting it is CIA, but thats pretty much possible with every group nowadays.
He is referring to the criminal hacking groups/state sponsors inside Russia that deny any ties to criminal activity.Correct, but that is standard incident response procedure. Shut down and prevent the spread as a precaution. Shit would have been really bad if it spread to the operations side.
What "many online hacking groups" are you referring to? Security researchers have published many articles about the group and their affiliation with other well known groups. Not refuting it is CIA, but thats pretty much possible with every group nowadays.
So with zero evidence of CIA involvement, it must be them because of your unsupported feeling it was them.
That is a pitiful excuse for a position.
On the other hand, we have direct forensic evidence of actors in Russia accessing these systems. We have logs showing the crypto malware reaching out to command and control servers in Russia. We know that Russian government has not and will not prosecute the bad actors, leading to a simple conclusion that it was Russians who committed this crime with the protection of the Russian government.
Surprise, it was Russians.
Well, taking into account the Vault7 and Shadowbrokers leaks, its very likely that the tools used by this group were originally developed or based on tools originally developed by the CIA. So there is that.
Although, I do believe it was the Russians on this event.
Yeah, it is a relatively quiet fight but people do take notice when it starts to hit their wallet. Watching fuel jump to $7.00 a gallon should be a wake-up call to both the consumer and to corporate America. These hackers are disabling vital services and goods until ransoms of multi-millions of dollars. We all know it's happened and continues to be a threat. If it escalates, Americans WILL be talking about it more. Imagine if heating oil next winter got impacted. Will it happen? Probably not, BUT the possibility remains and that's just one critical example. I really hope corporations get on the fast track to vastly improve their systems security and protection from hackers, because the floodgate has been opened and it's probably just a matter of time before the next "big one" shuts down some critical service affecting Americans. JMO.Software made for war, assault software? The cyber war is interesting, it's like Fight Club. Going strong but no one talks about it. Not very sexy though, no missiles no planes. Let's watch the fireworks instead.