Norsk Hydro ASA Suffers Extensive Cyber Attack
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Norsk Hydro ASA Suffers Extensive Cyber Attack
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#2>>A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, the owner of the world’s biggest container shipping company, lost about $200 million to $300 million because of a cyber attack in June
Very soon we'll be talking real money. How do you price your ransom...we caused this much damage to Maersk, be smart...
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#3They should make it illegal to pay ransoms.
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#4They should make it illegal to pay ransoms.
They'll find a way. Pay for consulting, pay from personal funds etc etc. Companies need to go back to work ASAP, ransom is a small cost of doing business.
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#5They should make it illegal to pay ransoms.
It doesn't say they're paying the ransom.
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#6Aluminium plants are particularly vulnerable because the electrolysis "pots" must be kept hot, requiring a continuous supply of electricity. Supply interruptions can be a disaster.
This has hit Venezuela badly: https://twitter.com/AKurmanaev/status/1104141813936545793 "Today Venezuela basically crossed off an entire industry. In one day. No more industrial aluminum production. Just like that. It’s gone."
https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/1863707-venezuelas-fragil... "State-owned aluminum smelter Venalum's remaining operational units and state-owned Bauxilum's alumina production units were destroyed by the blackout and likely will not be repaired for at least a year, a senior Venalum official said. "The primary aluminum and alumina sectors are dead for the foreseeable future." "
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#7They should make it illegal to pay ransoms.
Better yet, make hacking illegal!
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#8Good twitter thread on this issue so far: https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1107928490580627456
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#9They should make it illegal to pay ransoms.
It is already illegal in Italy.
I would have thought that an imaginative prosecutor could find an existing law that could be applied to punish the payment of ransoms; even if it is only failing to pay some sort of tax or duty. Something like that is what is supposed to have brought down Al Capone.