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  1. Abhorsen

    Cyberattack on US Oil Pipeline Infrastructure

    Yay, glad to see I wasn't talking out of my ass.
  2. Abhorsen

    Cyberattack on US Oil Pipeline Infrastructure

    Oh, nvm. I don't know how I missed that. I'm a dumbass.
  3. Abhorsen

    Cyberattack on US Oil Pipeline Infrastructure

    They aren't getting taken down though, only their advertising is. Taking down advertisements for a hacking group is mostly a waste of time, because there are so many. What matters is their malware (which thankfully isn't readily accessible, so if they get caught it will actually become harder to...
  4. Abhorsen

    Cyberattack on US Oil Pipeline Infrastructure

    Eh, in this case it makes sense given how critical they are, and how well defended they are. It was apparently hard to actually find the way in. Just properly airgap the security cameras from the rest.
  5. Abhorsen

    Cyberattack on US Oil Pipeline Infrastructure

    No, because first, that's a ton more expensive. That's about 4 jobs for someone to be on site to change things 24/7, which is easily 200k/year. On top of that, it's not just two places that need to coordinate. A ton of coordination and measurement is needed, including other input sources to the...
  6. Abhorsen

    Cyberattack on US Oil Pipeline Infrastructure

    For a lot of reasons. In this case, it was stupidity, where it wasn't properly air-gapped from security cameras, which basically need to be visible from far away, but there's a lot of reasons why you might want power plants connected to the internet, as they need to communicate to determine how...
  7. Abhorsen

    Cyberattack on US Oil Pipeline Infrastructure

    The people operating the middleman company control who uses it and how, sorta like a rental. So they definitely bare some responsibility.
  8. Abhorsen

    Cyberattack on US Oil Pipeline Infrastructure

    Honestly, it probably is Russia. The 'company' behind it won't attack Russian countries, and at that point its Russia's fault because criminals (almost certainly based in russia) know the Russians won't come down on them.
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