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05-09-2021, 04:31 AM #1Registered User
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Cyberattacks and ransomware
WTF. Talk about shitty people doing fucked up things. The last few that the media told us about were disturbing and now the pipeline that moves about 50% of the fuel to the East Coast is shut down. If it stays down another day supply levels will start to drop, if it's still down on Tuesday we've got problems. Compounded with a critical shortage of certified tanker truck drivers that has 25% of the (national) fleet off the road things could get really dicey when they have to start rationing which could happen by Wednesday afternoon.
What's next? What power grid or fresh water supply system gets knocked out...
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05-09-2021, 05:00 AM #2
I had my work server bricked. It sucks.
Didn’t lose much data since I had a cloud backup.
But it’s virtual rape. A complete violation. I still wonder how long it could have been running, uploading all the data for later mining and blackmail. Uggh.
The interesting thing about the gasoline pipeline is that now it’s common knowledge. An actual terrorist could blow it up in three locations and make a year long gas shortage in the east.. . .
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05-09-2021, 05:13 AM #3
Good thing we shut down alternate supply line construction.
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05-09-2021, 05:18 AM #4
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05-09-2021, 05:49 AM #5
Nation-state actors. Just the beginning. We built quite the house of cards.
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05-09-2021, 06:59 AM #6Banned
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I see it as more of we got lazy and complacent. Power distribution and water distribution networks should be completely segregated from any other network in the building. No internet access of any kind. We decided to make it "easier" to manage "from anywhere".
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05-09-2021, 07:14 AM #7
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05-09-2021, 08:26 AM #8
Last edited by Bunion 2020; 05-09-2021 at 08:54 AM.
I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
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05-09-2021, 08:27 AM #9
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05-09-2021, 08:54 AM #10
Got it, thx
I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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05-09-2021, 09:14 AM #11
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05-09-2021, 09:36 AM #12
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05-09-2021, 09:42 AM #13
Tested and working Backups, disaster planning, and better network design are part of the equation. Users not doing dumb stuff, multiple layers of network protection- firewalls, anti-virus, email filtering so phishing messages do not even make it into an inbox, and limited rights with only as needed access, are part of the other side also. Keeping up on firmware and patching vulnerabilities as revealed also needs to be a priority.
Just like say a Hospital or Healthcare ransomware attach that can affect the critical operations of emergency rooms, IT and security needs to be thought of differently in many businesses.
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05-09-2021, 09:43 AM #14
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05-10-2021, 12:26 PM #15Banned
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05-10-2021, 12:52 PM #16
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05-10-2021, 01:04 PM #18Banned
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the best part is a lot of the controllers that run this stuff are on older bacnet and modbus protocols, which arent super security based protocols. Any one I ever installed was never to touch the internet. You could not access building management systems anywhere but INSIDE the physical building. Access to the physical controllers was controlled. If you didn't need to touch it you would never touch it.
Just wait....water systems, sewage systems, power grids....all very outdated and for sure not secure.
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05-10-2021, 01:15 PM #19"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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05-10-2021, 01:19 PM #20Banned
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05-10-2021, 01:20 PM #21
At what point do we decide that a cyber attack on our infrastructure by a state actor is the same as a missile attack?
It seems unlikely that a state actor would do a ransomware attack, although the ransom demand could be a smoke screen.
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05-10-2021, 01:22 PM #22
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05-10-2021, 01:23 PM #25man of ice
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Apparently the hackers ignore any system where the language is set as Russian so all we have to do is set everything to Russian and we're all set. Easy peasy.
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