Cyberattack on US Oil Pipeline Infrastructure

[Sailor.X]

yeah I belive that.

For decades now corperate america has essentally refused to train incoming personal. Instead prefering to either pouch already trained people or bring in cheaper emigrants. After 20 years of that they don't have the people any more. The solution is to fucking train people but that costs money and they would have to be less abusive to retain personal.

And that is the Downside of the My Private Business trope. Say what you want about the Government. But at least mandatory training in a skill is required.

 

[Cherico]

And that is the Downside of the My Private Business trope. Say what you want about the Government. But at least mandatory training in a skill is required.

Thats less private buisness and more our current only think about the next quarter way of running business.

 

[Terthna]

Thats less private buisness and more our current only think about the next quarter way of running business.

Our culture has basically enshrined placing short-term gains above long-term stability; it's a big part of why we're so screwed up.

 

[Cherico]

Our culture has basically enshrined placing short-term gains above long-term stability; it's a big part of why we're so screwed up.

were not the first culture to do that and we wont be the last.

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Reminds me of how software projects and websites begin to break down over time as the original programmers who knew the intricacies of everything and how it all came together begin to leave the project. Eventually all of the OGs are gone and you're left with people who only have a surface level understanding of what is going on, and can't actually fix anything because tampering with something might bring the whole structure down. Which is why the Amazon and Youtube algorithms are out of control.

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

Which is why the Amazon and Youtube algorithms are out of control.

Maybe they will collapse for good, forcing these bastards to try and start over.

 

[Husky_Khan]

New update on the story, the United States government is offering a ten million dollar bounty on the hackers of Colonial Pipeline.

US offers $10m bounty for Colonial Pipeline hackers

The DarkSide ransomware attack led to a major US fuel pipeline being taken offline.

www.bbc.com

 

[Captain X]

Pretty rich considering that Biden himself left us wide open for it.

 

[Terthna]

New update on the story, the United States government is offering a ten million dollar bounty on the hackers of Colonial Pipeline.

US offers $10m bounty for Colonial Pipeline hackers

The DarkSide ransomware attack led to a major US fuel pipeline being taken offline.

www.bbc.com

In other words, they've realized that they can't catch them on their own. So much for the efficacy of our intelligence community, huh? They can't even do the job they exist to do.

 

[Zachowon]

In other words, they've realized that they can't catch them on their own. So much for the efficacy of our intelligence community, huh? They can't even do the job they exist to do.

We have other more important things.
Like legitimately. Why waste time looking for a ghost when there are more important things to watch for...

 

[Morphic Tide]

Why waste time looking for a ghost when there are more important things to watch for...

"Why spend time looking for people who fucked with about half the country's economy when we can worry about Muh Islamists/Russians/Whiterino Supremerinos?"

 

[Bacle]

We have other more important things.
Like legitimately. Why waste time looking for a ghost when there are more important things to watch for...

So, by your ghost comment, you think they already killed the person responsible?

 

[Zachowon]

"Why spend time looking for people who fucked with about half the country's economy when we can worry about Muh Islamists/Russians/Whiterino Supremerinos?"

So lets let human trafficking get the spending cut so we can focus on a cyber attack that was fixed?

So, by your ghost comment, you think they already killed the person responsible?

No, more not really possible to find the person.

 

[Bacle]

No, more not really possible to find the person.

So with all the domestic and international spying and all the wonderful budgets the intel and LEOs get, regardless of how much they violate the Constitution, and you all have had to resort to posting bounties to handle this.

And you wonder why people question the priorities and leadership of so much of the intel/LEO community?

This is also why I have worries over automated vehicles; if a hacker can get away with attacking a critical pipeline and no one can figure out who did it, they can do a hell of a lot more.

 

[Zachowon]

So with all the domestic and international spying and all the wonderful budgets the intel and LEOs get, regardless of how much they violate the Constitution, and you all have had to resort to posting bounties to handle this.

And you wonder why people question the priorities and leadership of so much of the intel/LEO community?

This is also why I have worries over automated vehicles; if a hacker can get away with attacking a critical pipeline and no one can figure out who did it, they can do a hell of a lot more.

The hack on the pipeline iirc was ransom.
Plus, you seem to not understand most hackers are contractors. Work for the biggest buck. Paying 10m to a white hat to catch the black hat is perfectly normal

 

[Bacle]

The hack on the pipeline iirc was ransom.
Plus, you seem to not understand most hackers are contractors. Work for the biggest buck. Paying 10m to a white hat to catch the black hat is perfectly normal

And no one thought to backtrack where the ransom money went?

Like, it should not be that hard to track a ransom payment to the hackers, particularly with the bank tracking shit the IRS/DoJ has.

And if it was just a contract hacker, then there are probably only a limited number of candidates who could have done it, assuming it wasn't a state actor behind the attack.

 

[Captain X]

Maybe I'm getting into tinfoil hat territory, but I suspect that there are those within the government who were involved in this attack, and that this announcement of a reward is basically just there as a sign that someone is doing something supposedly.

 

[Zachowon]

And no one thought to backtrack where the ransom money went?

Like, it should not be that hard to track a ransom payment to the hackers, particularly with the bank tracking shit the IRS/DoJ has.

And if it was just a contract hacker, then there are probably only a limited number of candidates who could have done it, assuming it wasn't a state actor behind the attack.

It was Crypto Bacle.
it isn't easy to track crypto if possible at all. Why do you think the government hates it?

Bacle, do you know how large the hacking community is? A lot larger then you seem to think. Most wont give others up either

 

[Bacle]

It was Crypto Bacle.
it isn't easy to track crypto if possible at all. Why do you think the government hates it?

Bacle, do you know how large the hacking community is? A lot larger then you seem to think. Most wont give others up either

I think they can track crypto better than they will admit, but they know the hackers are beyond thier reach, likely protected by a foreign power and do not want to admit it.

Thus the bounty, so they can get white hats to publicly out what they already know, without leaking sources or methods.

 

[Zachowon]

I think they can track crypto better than they will admit, but they know the hackers are beyond thier reach, likely protected by a foreign power and do not want to admit it.

Thus the bounty, so they can get white hats to publicly out what they already know, without leaking sources or methods.

That actually makes sense, somewhat.
And it is more things seem to be heating up with our adversaries so we are focusing on those aspects