The ransom
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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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"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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@mik that headline was horrible...
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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 -
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