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“This is a Private Sector Decision” – WH Officials Say They Have Not Offered Advice to Colonial Pipeline on Whether to Pay Ransom to Hackers (VIDEO)
GP ^ | May 10, 2021 | Cristina Laila

Posted on 05/10/2021 1:51:06 PM PDT by White Lives Matter

The Biden Administration believes cyberterrorism that prompted the largest refinery to shut down two crude units, paralyzing gas distribution, is a “private sector decision.”

White House officials on Monday said they have not offered advice to Colonial Pipeline on whether to pay ransom to hackers who shut down a vital US pipeline.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: colonialpipeline; joebiden; oilandgasindustry; ransomware
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To: White Lives Matter

bullsh*t...

the biden administration has it’s fingerprints all over destroying the private sector...

especially the gas and oil industry...


21 posted on 05/10/2021 2:16:02 PM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: White Lives Matter

Translation: “We’re still looking for a way to blame this on Trump”.


22 posted on 05/10/2021 2:21:14 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: volunbeer
The same people who could not make a healthcare website despite billions of dollars in funding it.

The website, and obamacare weren't designed to succeed.

23 posted on 05/10/2021 2:40:30 PM PDT by dznutz
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To: White Lives Matter

He’s behind it...a chance to promote electric vehicles..


24 posted on 05/10/2021 2:45:30 PM PDT by hercuroc
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To: DesertRhino
I refuse to believe that the NSA could not figure out where this came from.

They almost certainly know by now who the perpetrators are.

The perpetrators almost always are based in a foreign country and have the protection of their local governments. either through bribery of officials or explicit policy sanction. "Everybody" in their local scene knows who they are.

It takes very nasty and covert diplomatic efforts to get them - or overt acts of war.

The Biden-Harris administration is incapable, and possible unwilling, to succeed at either option. These are the people who "Never let a crisis go to waste". They don't solve a crisis.

25 posted on 05/10/2021 2:49:01 PM PDT by flamberge (Time has run out. Work with what you've got.)
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To: hercuroc

Yep and AOC probably had an orgasm hearing this news.


26 posted on 05/10/2021 2:49:33 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
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To: ConservativeMind

I think these are only the business systems and not the SCADA which should be air-gapped. They’re just going to have to pay to get their data unencrypted. It sucks but cryptoware is nasty stuff.


27 posted on 05/10/2021 2:51:59 PM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: Paladin2

Yup Keystone shut down and the Colonial is a private affair or so biden says. Open them both up. Finish the Keystone Pipeline.


28 posted on 05/10/2021 2:57:47 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: DesertRhino
I refuse to believe that the NSA could not figure out where this came from.

If NSA employees have gone woke, they probably can't even reboot a computer.

Expertise is RAAACIST.

29 posted on 05/10/2021 3:05:39 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: miliantnutcase
They’re just going to have to pay to get their data unencrypted.

Why can't they just restore their backups?

30 posted on 05/10/2021 3:07:49 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: White Lives Matter

Yes, this Regime decision stinks and makes it seem like they are either involved or know who is and they are on the same side of screwing over the US.


31 posted on 05/10/2021 3:20:07 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: White Lives Matter

Anybody know who’s behind the hack?


32 posted on 05/10/2021 3:21:08 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Depravity is the evil heart of the Democrat Party.)
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To: TChad

Presuming they have backups. You would hope.


33 posted on 05/10/2021 3:25:47 PM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: White Lives Matter

At the core of it, Colonial Pipeline must have rotten IT security because a ransomeware attack requires admin privileges to the data servers to work.


34 posted on 05/10/2021 3:31:17 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: miliantnutcase
Presuming they have backups.

Say it isn't so. Failure to back up that data would earn a failing grade in Introduction to Computing for Preschoolers.

35 posted on 05/10/2021 3:38:55 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: White Lives Matter

This has been happening for awhile now and not any of these big companies have not done one thing to increase their cybersecurity, or worse they put it all in the Cloud, which is very hackable.


36 posted on 05/10/2021 3:41:17 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page)
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To: TChad

It doesn’t work that way. The hackers have introduced a very sophisticated virus that has infiltrated the computer system and they control it. You pay and they will let you have control of your system again. Of course that will lead to a complete reprogramming of the system and new software to prevent this from happening again.


37 posted on 05/10/2021 3:44:02 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page)
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To: Savage Beast

Yes!


38 posted on 05/10/2021 3:45:42 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
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To: Captain Peter Blood
It doesn’t work that way.

Thanks for responding, but why specifically should restoring bare-metal backups followed by differential backups fail to restore functionality to all of the computers in this network? You don't need to have "control of your system" to do that. You just need access to the hardware. Restoring the backups should recreate the system.

39 posted on 05/10/2021 3:58:18 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: White Lives Matter
As usual they are lying. It is technically not illegal to pay cyberransom. However, the Treasury Department last year issued it's Advisory on Potential Sanctions Risks for Facilitating Ransomware Payments. It's complicated, but the bottom line is if payment violates one of Treasury's regulations prohibiting paying money to bad guys the payer may be subject to stiff penalties. And, of course, they will tell you this after you pay.

Here's how one journal reported it:"Paying Ransom is Now Illegal! U.S. Dept of Treasury Warns."

https://cisomag.eccouncil.org/paying-ransom-is-now-illegal-u-s-dept-of-treasury-warns/

40 posted on 05/10/2021 3:59:31 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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