Posted on 05/10/2021 1:51:06 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
bullsh*t...
the biden administration has it’s fingerprints all over destroying the private sector...
especially the gas and oil industry...
Translation: “We’re still looking for a way to blame this on Trump”.
The website, and obamacare weren't designed to succeed.
He’s behind it...a chance to promote electric vehicles..
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.
Yep and AOC probably had an orgasm hearing this news.
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.
Yup Keystone shut down and the Colonial is a private affair or so biden says. Open them both up. Finish the Keystone Pipeline.
If NSA employees have gone woke, they probably can't even reboot a computer.
Expertise is RAAACIST.
Why can't they just restore their backups?
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.
Anybody know who’s behind the hack?
Presuming they have backups. You would hope.
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.
Say it isn't so. Failure to back up that data would earn a failing grade in Introduction to Computing for Preschoolers.
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.
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.
Yes!
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.
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/
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