Posted on 05/11/2021 5:46:06 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
This is crazy. I stopped for gas just now having no idea what was happening. It’s out. People here told me they’d been to other stations and found the same. pic.twitter.com/7LDVdUXPo4
Gas Buddy is showing a few stations reporting low availability and even fewer showing outages. Give it a few more days and we will be in a full blown crisis. Right now things look pretty good. But with nothing flowing...we are likely a day or two out from a bad weekend.
https://tracker.gasbuddy.com/?_ga=2.144807152.593772598.1620738533-587960250.1620738533
I agree.
But being a process guy, part of my concern is that the back ups were not being done, or eliminated as a cost saving measure.
Last plant I was at the “cloud backup” wasn’t working, and we lost the DCS for a week.
Which cost a few million.
Seems a LEAN exercise ranked the server going down as a low probability event, and someone cut the service AND the manual back ups
Older equipment running custom apps on OS that are no longer supported, lack of external protection... It’s pretty easy if IT doesn’t or isn’t allowed to keep all systems up to date or have adequate backups.
See my above post - you’d be shocked at the number of people out there in positions of leadership that won’t spend to keep systems updated and then go shocked Pikachu when their decision to get a $100K company Mercedes S-class instead of upgrading the Cisco firewall appliances and putting everything on a real VPN backfires.
I know CatTurd. Unless he has access to those systems or networks, tracking this back to the FBI would be improbable.
That's incorrect. Hugh level hacking and ransomware attacks goes on regardless of who is in office.
Exactly what I was wondering.
I am too. Cloud providers are yesterdays managed service providers. We ditched that crap because once someone else is in physical control of your data you will have problems.
Hurricane season is going to be fun.
gasoline futures have been stable since the story broke ....
I still see empty RR tanker cars on storage spurs.
Wow this seems to have happed after Biden visited Carter famous for odd even gas days
Wasn’t Obama’s stimulus trillions suppose to fix our “ crumbling” infrastructure? Wasn’t Chomo Joe overseeing that?
Trucking hours.
However, I can’t ship to much east of the Mississippi. No trucks will go there because they are not sure they can get back.
He’s supposed to the bomb in cyberworld isn’t he?
That's the big deal. I'm amazed at the number of places that have no (or dated) backups.
We just started using a new backup system for our network hardware. The backups are saved on the VM that the software runs on. And that VM is contained in a VM enclosure. So if the enclosure goes down, backplane goes bad, etc, we have a problem.
Those backups are SFTP'd off to an external drive at another building and also sent encrypted into off-site storage. And these latter two methods make no use of Windows, which is the main recipient of ransomeware attacks.
The rumors I’m hearing out of the oil patch - and they’re only rumors - is that Colonial got infected all the way down the line from their control center. They *had* to completely shut down everything (which, honestly, is a good thing, we don’t need exploding pipelines) as they were losing control.
Yes, depending on what it is, you can get stuff that will infect PLCs and embedded PCs controlling valves and doing monitoring. I did hear that part of the issue was that some of their gear is actually still intact and didn’t get infected, but the managing servers they talk to dropped offline and the field gear went into failsafe once it realized it wasn’t communicating any more and now they have to go get it out of that condition.
The rumors also say that Colonial didn’t have proper backups and didn’t begin to have proper redundancy for the control systems. One rumor is that they’re going to have to do a format and reinstall/reimage on everything from the as-original state and then do whatever updates/customizations they need.
An air-gap comes from electronics engineering. An LED was used to transmit a good signal from one circuit to another circuit. This “air gap” allows for blocked other signals from passing from the one circuit to the other.
Air-gapped networks are simply networks with no connection to any other network. They are also known as “disconnected networks”. Unplug the network cable and you have an “air-gapped” network. To get data into an air-gapped network means using a disk or memory stick to transfer data from one outside networks to the air-gapped network. This blocks hacking attempts via the network. More secure air-gapped network still use paper tape to ensure no electronic means exist to infiltrate the air-gapped network.
I tend to agree. This is 2021 and the so called “ramsonware” scheme is well known.
Colonial would have and entire team of highly paid security analysts dedicated to nothing except protecting the integrity of their IT infrastructure.
I can’t believe this is blatant incompetence. There are other factors at play.
“This is an idiot problem.”
I am not so sure it is that. It may be a completely planned outage by liberals and not one of idiocy.
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