Posted on 12/21/2020 5:23:07 AM PST by McGruff
True, but suppose it’s a hit and run strategy...
Take down a single company that processes credit card transactions for a short period of time, disrupt a few million transactions create angst in the consumer world...
It would probably slide under the radar because it was just a single company that was hit....and they weren’t very up on cyber security anyway....
I can think of a couple of examples that I have been suspicious of.....
Delta had their entire network go offline a couple of years ago, they blamed it on a ops center going offline in Atlanta...
United’s entire network went offline and it was blamed on a router change in Chicago....
the NYSE halted trading during the day and could not close the day out a few years back, they blamed it on a software upgrade....
And most recently Google, YouTube, and all their other companies went down worldwide last week.....they to my knowledge haven’t released any official excuse....
I don’t believe any of the official excuses..
I think they were hacked by someone, IMO many of the cyber attacks are done by an insider within a company...
[I don’t believe any of the official excuses..
I think they were hacked by someone, IMO many of the cyber attacks are done by an insider within a company...]
All of these offensive capabilities take a while to put together. Private hackers use them to make money, so they do things related to monetization that inevitably lead to discovery. State actors save them for a rainy day.
Yep. And even today Trump is insisting that this hack was not his Russian paymasters. It’s sheer insanity.
Liberals love blood and war.
You get what you vote for.
> Not even sworn in yet and trying to start a war.
Exactly. That’s the go to move in their playbook.
Oh I suspect Krebs and others did this/allowed it to happen on President’s watch. I find the timing of it all suspect with Krebs firing.
He’s telegraphing to his opponent what he’s doing he’s either incompetent or a moron..then again this was China so I doubt Joe will do anything but give a strongly worded letter
Eight days since the breach was detected.
Has anyone seen a report that verifies sabotage or data extraction?
I have not.
BINGO!
probably CIA or China making it look Russian.
I spent the majority of my IT career working on Cisco Routers and Switches, plus Cisco Voice..
During that time I was contracted to some really large companies, two had worldwide computer networks, where the group I worked on rolled out literally thousands of Routers/switches and IP phones.....
I’m quite familiar with the change control process having written many of them myself.....
Part of my team rolled out Cisco IP Phones for a couple of the major trading companies on the NYSE and on the floor of the exchange, based on all that I’m highly, highly suspicious of a worldwide network going down.....
I’ve seen individual buildings with hundreds of employees go offline, I’ve seen parts of a entire country go offline, but I never saw an entire distributed network with worldwide reach go offline....
The Russians did it....again!
I don’t think there are any Russians
And there ain’t no Yanks
Just Corporate Criminals
Playing with Tanks
(Funny how those lyrics make much more sense now!)
Same here. The attack routes trace back to China.
Funny how they can verify that sort of thing, but can’t spend
any time looking at our election.
What a disaster lies ahead...
Increase your cyber defense dumb a**.
[I spent the majority of my IT career working on Cisco Routers and Switches, plus Cisco Voice..]
* There’s a possibly false dichotomy that some have posited between state and non-state actors. It would not be surprising if some non-state actors (i.e. hackers who steal money) were drafted to carry out the work of state actors, especially if they had been found ripping people off outside the country. Extradition to the US is probably a pretty effective threat to coerce compliance.
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