Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom

Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom by Guest42 on Thursday May 13, 2021 @05:39PM (#27147813)

I would sooner have security negligence be criminalized as there are a number of products that are critical to the economy and peoples health. Having a companies systems get wiped out can have a monumental amount of collateral damage.

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Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom by silexia on Thursday May 13, 2021 @05:47PM (#27147905)

Paying Ransoms should be criminalized as there is far more damage from allowing this to continue then having a few systems wiped and restored from backups.

Not taking steps to have cybersecurity in companies should be criminalized as well... I am a CEO and thinks CEO's should be held directly criminally responsible for this.

Finally, any nation that allows hackers to operate from within their borders should be subject to 100x over damages caused sanctions. Countries without strong governments to enforce this should have direct airstrikes conducted against the individual hackers.

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Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom by mjevans on Thursday May 13, 2021 @05:52PM (#27147964)

If you think the 100X damages is overkill please reconsider within this framework:

Any nation that harbors international terrorists by not at least attempting to hold them accountable is implicitly operating an outsourced covert activities team. The actions of any such team should be considered representative of that country and thus this would be an act of guerilla warfare.

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Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom by warlog on Thursday May 13, 2021 @05:58PM (#27148006)

Nukem from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

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