I’m a cyber security expert, and I am stunned they have not corrected this hacking problem by now. This tells me there is far more going on than is being said and possibly this is nothing but a liberal attempt to keep the pipeline shutdown. Perhaps this is a liberal effort to claim pipelines are bad so people need to stop complaining about liberals shutting down pipelines like Keystone.
Very much agree!
Help is on the way, as DOT is Quickly relaxing trucking transportation requirements in 17 states... seventeen states.
“””I’m a cyber security expert, and I am stunned they have not corrected this hacking problem by now.”””
I suspect the main problem facing Colonial is keeping the batches of gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel from cross contaminating each other as they restart the pumps.
I am guessing a pipeline that can pump 2,500,000 barrels per day of product holds around 10 million barrels of product.
“I am stunned they have not corrected this hacking problem by now. This tells me there is far more going on than is being said”
Yep, the facts are few.
President Psaki is likely working on blaming this on Trump and getting rid of Lizard.
As a cyber security expert, you'd know as well as I do that just because you can put something on the Internet that doesn't mean you should.
Why is all this critical infrastructure accessible via the Internet? Where's the air-gap? Why isn't all this critical infrastructure on its own managed WAN, completely independent of Internet access?
Who are the assclowns responsible for the security of the infrastructure connected to the Internet which provides access to the pipeline infrastructure controls? Are they still employed?
Why wasn't there a manual fail-over plan available to be implemented in the event of a computer based controls outage?
Finally, who's the idiot who thought making critical infrastructure accessible via Internet was a good idea? We seem to have this issue with every piece of critical infrastructure. If it's critical, why is it connected to the Internet in any way rather than a dedicated, fully manged WAN and fully managed/isolated VPN solution that allows secured & managed access with zero connectivity to the Internet?
I know some will call this stupid, but I believe it and will say it anyway. A lot can be learned from the “Anthrax” shutdown in the movie, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”.
When the results don’t match the stated cause, something else is going on.
Reminds me of the mantra of the parents of teenagers: When their story doesn’t make sense, it means they’re lying.
Because nothing is actually broken. It is a self manufactured crisis scam to get the price up. Big oil has done it before.
Waiting for Biden to proclaim that electric-powered vehicles are the solution.
Are you familiar with a hacker called Cat Turd? He and another one I can’t think of have reported tracking this back to the FBI.
Where’s their nightly backup? Where’s the planned contingency for this?
I’m not sure I even believe the claim that this is ransomware. It sounds like a smokescreen. How can a pipeline be so vulnerable?
I’m a software expert, I’ve done countless designs & implementations of them - embedded systems, desktop apps, web/cloud apps, cars, planes, phones, etc. and with systems requiring functional safety it also includes security requirements - you’re not safe if you’re not secure.
THIS STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN. I’m not believing the narrative.
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