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U.S. announces new security directives for pipelines after hack
Reuters ^ | May 27, 2021 10:12 AM EDT | N/A

Posted on 05/27/2021 9:09:18 AM PDT by deport

The Department of Homeland Security issued a new security directive for pipeline owners and operators on Thursday after a hack of the Colonial Pipeline disrupted fuel supplies in the southeastern United States for days this month.

Owners and operators of critical pipelines will be required to report confirmed and potential cybersecurity incidents to the department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and designate a cybersecurity coordinator, to be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, DHS said.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: pipelines; security
And the beat goes on.
1 posted on 05/27/2021 9:09:18 AM PDT by deport
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To: deport

Reporting everything to Government will lead to many more hacks


2 posted on 05/27/2021 9:12:06 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: deport

Perhaps pedo joe can just mandate they all be shut down and start filling up rail cars and semi tankers. That’s super efficient. Fookin’ idjits!


3 posted on 05/27/2021 9:13:21 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: deport

How ‘bout “air gap any computerized pipeline controls from the internet?”


4 posted on 05/27/2021 9:14:33 AM PDT by Little Ray (Corporations don't pay taxes. They collect them.)
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To: deport

These incompetent fools paid the ransom which guarantees future hacks. Utter idiots.


5 posted on 05/27/2021 9:14:54 AM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: deport

What color was the alert?
DHS is a pointless creation run by pointless politicians.
Back in 2004, I wrote a private note to my self of about 200 ways to get around all of the DHS “mandates” and “security checks”.
10 of them have now been used worldwide including Covid19 (I expected Ebola)

Oh well...we can’t all be morons.


6 posted on 05/27/2021 9:15:26 AM PDT by Zathras
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Because there is no financial incentive for companies to invest in security. Beauracrats have all the IT knowledge necessary


7 posted on 05/27/2021 9:17:08 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( )
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To: deport

There was no hack.


8 posted on 05/27/2021 9:33:28 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues th the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: butlerweave

The globalists are will protect America’s pipelines from terrorism by never allowing them to be built.


9 posted on 05/27/2021 9:35:49 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
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To: deport

Cows and horses and barn doors...


10 posted on 05/27/2021 9:46:12 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: glorgau

Don’t forget the corral. LOL


11 posted on 05/27/2021 9:50:40 AM PDT by deport ( )
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To: deport

Report it to the giverment. Yup, that’ll fix everything.

/s


12 posted on 05/27/2021 9:55:47 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: Little Ray

“pipeline controls”

Disabling the controls is only one way of stopping pipeline flow.

What about simply dynamiting a section of the pipe. People must know where the pipeline runs, about 6 feet beneath the ground I’m told.


13 posted on 05/27/2021 9:58:37 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: deport

I heard this on the radio a little while ago. Here’s how I interpreted what they said:

The government’s job is to stop crime. We’re obviously not very good at that, despite spending billions of dollars on the CIA, NSA, and FBI. Since we can’t do what you pay your taxes for us to do, we are going to punish you by making you spend millions of dollars to comply with our regulations. We will hire a few hundred bureaucrats to make sure you’re doing what we tell you, which will cost even more of your tax payer dollars.


14 posted on 05/27/2021 9:59:41 AM PDT by suthener
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To: cymbeline

Yes, but the acquisition of explosives and their use is more dangerous to the criminal than the hacking the controls.


15 posted on 05/27/2021 10:04:24 AM PDT by Little Ray (Corporations don't pay taxes. They collect them.)
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To: deport

The government will not pay a quality cyber security expert for the position so it will be essentially a political position.


16 posted on 05/27/2021 11:00:25 AM PDT by pas
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To: deport

Thing is it wasn’t the pipeline that was hacked,it was their billing department they didn’t know who to bill so so they stopped deliveries.🤔


17 posted on 05/27/2021 3:37:10 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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