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Silverback

Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
Don't worry... its all part of the plan.
 

TacoXpo

HOAX DENIER
Don't worry... its all part of the plan.
Relax for we will be having to bend over real hard fore the next year or two at a minimum. Resist and it will only hurt more.
 

TacoXpo

HOAX DENIER

Silverback

Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
Bizzaro-world for sure!
 

Oswego

n00b
Infrastructure and dependency?
 

TacoXpo

HOAX DENIER
With CNN tanking, should Trump buy it and have it as the China News Network and only do stories about the Biden's and China?

BLM - Biden Loves Minors
 

Oswego

n00b
With CNN tanking, should Trump buy it and have it as the China News Network and only do stories about the Biden's and China?

BLM - Biden Loves Minors
China is the key imo.
 

tx_shooter

It is not a war crime the first time.
Staff member
Infrastructure and dependency?

From an IT Security viewpoint - the flaws and problems that site must have had to allow something like this to happen. Some topics like international dependency are just not good ideas when I am talking with people in France and India while working for a foreign owned company.
 

Oswego

n00b
Our entire banking IT infrastructure is no better. Every banks running the same code that's so old only people over 70 know it.
 

Silverback

Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
What an embarrassment.

 

CowboyTaco

Well-Known Member
From an IT Security viewpoint - the flaws and problems that site must have had to allow something like this to happen.

Not necessarily.

All it takes is a user clicking a phishing link. Almost no organization treats it's own internal network as hostile, which means that once the worm is in....good luck stopping it. I don't know the ins and outs of the attack or how it propagated, or even what type of machines it hit. But I'd venture to guess that the organization isn't taking nightly backups of all servers. Shutdown computers. Disconnect any that got hit from the network. Check servers for signs of compromise and restore any that need it. You're back up and running relatively quickly and you aren't impacting 1/4 of the country.

Ironic how Biden is making a push to go all electric for vehicles and this happens. Sort of like how the shootings increase as he talks about gun control. Seems like a well timed reinforcement that his plan needs to be expedited and pushed through before anyone takes a second look.

Dude I work with yesterday, who is a relatively smart guy made the comment yesterday that everyone with a Tesla is laughing at everyone trying to buy gas right now. Said this wouldn't happen if everyone was using electric vehicles. While that may be true, everyone with a gas powered vehicle is going to be laughing when the same thing happens to the electrical grid and no one can get power to charge their Tesla.

It just shows how little control we have and how easily people can be convinced of things.
 

Taco Loco

Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
Not necessarily.

All it takes is a user clicking a phishing link. Almost no organization treats it's own internal network as hostile, which means that once the worm is in....good luck stopping it. I don't know the ins and outs of the attack or how it propagated, or even what type of machines it hit. But I'd venture to guess that the organization isn't taking nightly backups of all servers. Shutdown computers. Disconnect any that got hit from the network. Check servers for signs of compromise and restore any that need it. You're back up and running relatively quickly and you aren't impacting 1/4 of the country.

Ironic how Biden is making a push to go all electric for vehicles and this happens. Sort of like how the shootings increase as he talks about gun control. Seems like a well timed reinforcement that his plan needs to be expedited and pushed through before anyone takes a second look.

Dude I work with yesterday, who is a relatively smart guy made the comment yesterday that everyone with a Tesla is laughing at everyone trying to buy gas right now. Said this wouldn't happen if everyone was using electric vehicles. While that may be true, everyone with a gas powered vehicle is going to be laughing when the same thing happens to the electrical grid and no one can get power to charge their Tesla.

It just shows how little control we have and how easily people can be convinced of things.


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Taco Loco

Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
Not necessarily.

All it takes is a user clicking a phishing link. Almost no organization treats it's own internal network as hostile, which means that once the worm is in....good luck stopping it. I don't know the ins and outs of the attack or how it propagated, or even what type of machines it hit. But I'd venture to guess that the organization isn't taking nightly backups of all servers. Shutdown computers. Disconnect any that got hit from the network. Check servers for signs of compromise and restore any that need it. You're back up and running relatively quickly and you aren't impacting 1/4 of the country.

Ironic how Biden is making a push to go all electric for vehicles and this happens. Sort of like how the shootings increase as he talks about gun control. Seems like a well timed reinforcement that his plan needs to be expedited and pushed through before anyone takes a second look.

Dude I work with yesterday, who is a relatively smart guy made the comment yesterday that everyone with a Tesla is laughing at everyone trying to buy gas right now. Said this wouldn't happen if everyone was using electric vehicles. While that may be true, everyone with a gas powered vehicle is going to be laughing when the same thing happens to the electrical grid and no one can get power to charge their Tesla.

It just shows how little control we have and how easily people can be convinced of things.

honestly I hope it cripples DC, your president canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, let his voters suck it dry.



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tx_shooter

It is not a war crime the first time.
Staff member
Not necessarily.

All it takes is a user clicking a phishing link. Almost no organization treats it's own internal network as hostile, which means that once the worm is in....good luck stopping it. I don't know the ins and outs of the attack or how it propagated, or even what type of machines it hit. But I'd venture to guess that the organization isn't taking nightly backups of all servers. Shutdown computers. Disconnect any that got hit from the network. Check servers for signs of compromise and restore any that need it. You're back up and running relatively quickly and you aren't impacting 1/4 of the country.

Ironic how Biden is making a push to go all electric for vehicles and this happens. Sort of like how the shootings increase as he talks about gun control. Seems like a well timed reinforcement that his plan needs to be expedited and pushed through before anyone takes a second look.

Dude I work with yesterday, who is a relatively smart guy made the comment yesterday that everyone with a Tesla is laughing at everyone trying to buy gas right now. Said this wouldn't happen if everyone was using electric vehicles. While that may be true, everyone with a gas powered vehicle is going to be laughing when the same thing happens to the electrical grid and no one can get power to charge their Tesla.

It just shows how little control we have and how easily people can be convinced of things.

Our production critical infrastructure does not have access to the Internet. That is how we prevent end users from falling for those emails and links. The amount of segmentation and layers is unreal but nothing that makes production happen ever has access to something like this.
 

CowboyTaco

Well-Known Member
Our production critical infrastructure does not have access to the Internet. That is how we prevent end users from falling for those emails and links. The amount of segmentation and layers is unreal but nothing that makes production happen ever has access to something like this.

True. The systems that have critical responsibilities should be air gapped.
 

Oswego

n00b
I've worked in everything from high security museums to "The safest building in the world" aka tower 1 in NYC. Had clearances/permits to drive on the tarmac during the last PHL terminal expansion. FBI, DEA, ATF, DOD, DHS, FEMA, GSA, etc, etc done secure entrances for them all.

By far the highest physical security I ever experienced was for a new Visa server farm. Second is drug companies and I've prob done all the top 5. Governmental agencies and utility companies are by far the most lax. Pretty much a joke and for show.

Refineries require more certs to get into but nothing that should make anyone feel good. Background checks for all that stuffs the same.......I've never needed one as a manager. Just my guys. Yet I have unrestricted access to the job sites. I also never needed a drug test or financial check.

In the end safety is perceived not factual so I'm in and out of those places asap. Not a fan of high rises as it is let alone hated ones

Oh and Tyco owns the majority of security contracts for these agencies and they are HORRIBLE. Never been on a job they wired my doors up properly on time the first time.
 
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