"This is as close as you can get to the jugular of infrastructure in the United States," said Amy Myers Jaffe, research professor and managing director of the Climate Policy Lab. "It's not a major pipeline. It's the pipeline." About that infrastructure security... this forum has gone over in detail the situation of infrastructure security in quite a bit of detail as other stuff has happened. It's easy to say "you nee…
Companies like this are tax dodges that socialize risk. The limited partners enjoy fat returns with minimal downside.
There’s nothing in this article indicating the operator has a recovery plan in place involving restoring backups to get these systems online. Seems grossly negligent on their behalf, and made almost satiric by the fact that Fireye can be mentioned without reference to their own massive security lapses. Too much focus always on the “hackers” and never the obvious security lapses solved by diverting executive pay to mo…
Its difficult to chastise a country that misses the forest for the trees, when that country has spent sixty years formenting a culture of blind consumption and wilful ignorance of anything STEM. instead of a flourishing culture of hacking and computing, the united states through DMCA and law relegated the notion to comic books and hollywood fiction. most of the public war drumming for 'hacking' (if it could be said to exist at all in 2021) is a thinly veiled surrogate of consumerism.
What reason would we have to blame the company for poor security hygene? what possible outcome could we hope for when in 2021 nearly every Solarwinds customer renewed their license after the hack.
There’s nothing in this article indicating the operator has a recovery plan in place involving restoring backups to get these systems online. Seems grossly negligent on their behalf, and made almost satiric by the fact that Fireye can be mentioned without reference to their own massive security lapses. Too much focus always on the “hackers” and never the obvious security lapses solved by diverting executive pay to mo…
Executives are rewarded extremely handsomely for short-term returns. Even if the company goes under, they've long ago accumulated enough wealth to live out their lives fabulously. The incentives to invest in security are weak.
There’s nothing in this article indicating the operator has a recovery plan in place involving restoring backups to get these systems online. Seems grossly negligent on their behalf, and made almost satiric by the fact that Fireye can be mentioned without reference to their own massive security lapses. Too much focus always on the “hackers” and never the obvious security lapses solved by diverting executive pay to mo…
You think Fireeye had massive security lapses because they reported they were hacked. Everyone else was also hacked and FireEye was the only one that figured it out and blew the whole thing wide open. Now if the best incident responders in the world can’t always prevent malicious activity on their network, how is an oil company going to do that? Or utilities, transporters, hospitals, defense contractors, or universities? The truth is everything is vulnerable, and what you think is the stability and security of all the other organizations you don’t hear about getting hacked, is just the current set of hackers working hard to be discreet. I think if war was to break out with certain other nations we’d find it in a hurry how much our infrastructure has already been compromised.
We need to have military responses to these attacks. Ransomware is running rampant because they don't fear any punishment for attacks. If people attacked our hospitals and pipelines with explosives we wouldn't sit by and do nothing.
hmmm...might be time for me to develop a side-expertise in cybersecurity...always kinda scoffed at those electives before, but now I see that there are literal lives at stake if our nation doesn't have excellent talent working in fields like cybersecurity for national defense.
There’s nothing in this article indicating the operator has a recovery plan in place involving restoring backups to get these systems online. Seems grossly negligent on their behalf, and made almost satiric by the fact that Fireye can be mentioned without reference to their own massive security lapses. Too much focus always on the “hackers” and never the obvious security lapses solved by diverting executive pay to mo…
Its difficult to chastise a country that misses the forest for the trees, when that country has spent sixty years formenting a culture of blind consumption and wilful ignorance of anything STEM. instead of a flourishing culture of hacking and computing, the united states through DMCA and law relegated the notion to comic books and hollywood fiction. most of the public war drumming for 'hacking' (if it could be said t…
What are you talking about? The country has spent so much time on STEM, that we have a trade labor shortage.
It's hilarious to me that a country that invests so much in their military doesn't seem to invest in the security of their infrastructure at all. The entire war machine will grind to a halt without oil. It would be one of the first thing to attack.
lol war machine? what war machine? there's proxy wars and internal civil conflicts happening abroad, and definitely shady profiteering in some places, and definitely refugee crisis many of which are caused by climate change actually...but what war machine are you talking about? there's no real war out there. if there was, most of us wouldn't be here posting anymore. I hope to God there's never actual war out there.
Its difficult to chastise a country that misses the forest for the trees, when that country has spent sixty years formenting a culture of blind consumption and wilful ignorance of anything STEM. instead of a flourishing culture of hacking and computing, the united states through DMCA and law relegated the notion to comic books and hollywood fiction. most of the public war drumming for 'hacking' (if it could be said t…
What are you talking about? The country has spent so much time on STEM, that we have a trade labor shortage. Please.
There is no STEM shortage. It's a lie to import h1bs by the millions to replace you.