Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom
by candiodari on Thursday May 13, 2021 @02:25PM
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Nobody in their right mind will consider a lot of attention by three letter agencies a reward or help. They may, and can, do a lot more damage than 0.4% of revenue, and can do a lot of damage to the individuals making the decisions as well.
Even if they help out, it will alert everyone and everything in 5 governments to all details about their firm.
Three letter agencies have used (and destroyed) companies for unrelated reasons and then left everyone without any recourse. With smaller companies, this happens regularly.
Those governments will have representatives from their lenders, from their investors, from their large clients and so on in them, who will get a lot of details they wouldn't normally get access to.
This is not happening.
Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom
by UncleOxidant on Thursday May 13, 2021 @03:03PM
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It's the 3-letter agencies where the expertise lies. Maybe a new agency needs to be created outside of the intelligence agencies?
Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom
by taurath on Thursday May 13, 2021 @04:59PM
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Yes, at least a 16-letter agency consisting of uppercase lowercase letters and special characters would be much better ;)
Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom
by Sohcahtoa82 on Thursday May 13, 2021 @06:36PM
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I like to use foreign letters like ß and ö in my passwords.
Good luck guessing that password. I'm not even German.
not just sticks, but also carrots: The federal government should commit to doing all it can to help organizations that refuse to pay ransoms. This would include help from 3-letter agencies as well as bringing in alternative IT infrastructure. Obviously the federal government doesn't have all of these capabilities now, but this should be a priority going forward.