The ransom
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wrote on 14 May 2021, 14:14 last edited by
You guys did see the parts where they still had to bring up backup servers anyway because the solution they were sent worked for shit? They bought a day at most.
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wrote on 14 May 2021, 15:04 last edited by
Stolen from George K:
A pirate walks into a bar with a paper towel on his head. The bartender asks, "Hey, what's with the paper towel?"
The pirate says, "Argh, I've got a Bounty on me head!"
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wrote on 14 May 2021, 20:33 last edited by
"On Thursday, Colonial Pipeline announced that its systems were back up and running — with very little thanks, it would seem, to that payment of 75 bitcoin."
https://mashable.com/article/colonial-pipeline-paid-bitcoin-ransomware/
They had the backups. They paid within hours and the decryptor sucked. How many days or hours did they waste with that? Could the system have been working on Wednesday or even Tuesday if they had just gone straight to work restoring the backups? Who knows? But paying the ransom did absolutely nothing except promote more attacks.
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wrote on 15 May 2021, 02:57 last edited by
sort of like the mob shooting a cop back in the day.
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wrote on 15 May 2021, 08:45 last edited by
How is it NOT possible to catch the hackers, or at least the one person that accesses the money?
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wrote on 15 May 2021, 23:50 last edited by
@mik that headline was horrible...
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wrote on 25 May 2021, 15:11 last edited by
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/25/colonial-hack-pipeline-dhs-cybersecurity/
DHS to issue first-ever cybersecurity regulations for pipelines after Colonial hack
Two directives will seek oversight of the industry after a ransomware attack upended gas availability in the southeast U.S. for 11 days -
wrote on 7 Jun 2021, 19:19 last edited by