Posted on 05/15/2021 10:16:31 AM PDT by yoe
Last week, the Colonial Pipeline Company gave nearly $5 million to an Eastern European criminal group that hacked them. This should bother us. We should all be bothered that our government can’t protect our companies. We should all be bothered that there’s a real cyber war underway and terrible things could happen in a matter of seconds.
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Yes it is. Now watch as the criminals in the federal government ignore this act of war because they are really on the side of who executed the hack of the pipeline.
maybe an act of war. But the bio-warfare attack on the US by China using their China virus is definitely an act of war.
Alberta, your inner Nazi is showing. Sod off.
I am invoking Godwin’s Law in this case, and won’t even bother responding to the substance of your idiotic post.
"...The stakes are extremely high. In our highly interconnected world, cyberattacks against critical infrastructure can leave us highly vulnerable. As we saw with this DarkSide incident, a ransomware attack can cause immense (but fortunately short-term) economic disruption across a large segment of the country. But state-based cyberattacks from countries like China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea could lead to loss of property and even life..."
AT THE VERY LEAST, the pipeline control system ought to be an ENTIRELY SEPARATE network, with ZERO internet connectivity.
Like a Dominion voting machine.
“maybe an act of war. But the bio-warfare attack on the US by China using their China virus is definitely an act of war.”
Agreed. How about counterfeiting of our currency by north korea (and other countries) over the past decades?
Good thought. Maybe it was done to sell the importance of an infrastructure bill of 2 trillion.
“ Why do we assume it is “Eastern European Criminal Groups?”
Because Eastern Europe means that white people did it.
Political correctness is not violated so the ruling class in America can safely be against the hack. If “people of color” did it, then there would be a social justice component that would require America’s ruling class and the government to say the hack was justified.
You are nuts and know nothing about how things work.
And Biden is on the side of the hackers.
What I DO know is that for decades, pipeline companies have been vested with eminent domain power by the Federal government. The basis of this extraordinary power for a private company to take private property for a project is that these pipelines are allegedly "essential" for the public at large.
Well, let's take this to its next logical step and make sure the company that takes your property to build a pipeline doesn't employ morons who leave the infrastructure vulnerable to a shutdown caused by a preventable cyber attack.
Who could argue with such logic? :-)
We crossed that line decades ago. Sophisticated digital control systems began entering the market in the mid and late 70s. I was there for the transition from pneumatic control systems (running big power plants) to distributed digital systems. We started seeing digital pressure gauges replacing traditional Bourdon Tube gauges and it was then off to the races from simple measurement to full control.
What people haven’t understood until this Colonial problem is that the front-office systems are deeply intertwined with the control systems. If you cannot process sales contracts and communicate their details to the production department, you cannot deliver the correct product to the desired location at the right time in the right quantity. This “hack” (if it really was) showed that in spades.
“They work for the government.”
All the more reason to string them up.
“Public-Private Partnerships” were created in the early 1990s to deal with problems of Critical Infrastructure. The government’s role was to make sure that all of our communications networks, air traffic control systems, train traffic control systems, power plants, electrical grid, refineries, water works, sewage plants, etc were safe and secure from control by nefarious actors, attack, damage, and destruction. The government got involved from a national defense perspective.
As much as I cannot stand our federal government, there is a critically important national defense role here. But 30 years of working in this area utterly failed.
I’m deeply troubled that the feds revealed they found out who the bad actors are within a few days. That means they knew about this group in advance and did nothing to disrupt them. They only announced they knew who they were when the pipeline shutdown began making the natives restive and threatening the Dems 2022 election prospects.
Not that it really matters, at this point ... because I wouldn’t believe a single thing that’s been reported in the media about this incident anyway.
“I wouldn’t believe a single thing that’s been reported in the media about this incident anyway.”
I’m 100% with you on that. Not a damned word from the feds is honest, truthful or accurate.
Colonial should now put a $5 million bounty on those guys. Dead only.
Har, har.
Standalone networks exist.
“Air gap” is an actual thing.
The automated controls are great, but permitting connection to the Wild-Wild Web is insane. THAT’S where the architectural failure lies.
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