[BBC] A cyber-criminal gang that took a major US fuel pipeline offline over the weekend has acknowledged the incident in a public statement.
"Our goal is to make money and not creating problems for society," DarkSide wrote on its website. "Please don't kill us!"
The US issued emergency legislation on Sunday after Colonial Pipeline was hit by a ransomware cyber-attack.
The pipeline carries 2.5 million barrels a day - 45% of the East Coast's supply of diesel, petrol and jet fuel.
The operator took itself offline on Friday after the cyber-attack. Work to restore service is continuing.
How did cyber-attackers shut off a US pipeline?
The ransomware surge ruining lives
Travelex being held to ransom by hackers
On Monday, the FBI officially confirmed that DarkSide was responsible for compromising Colonial Pipeline's networks, saying that it was continuing to work with the firm and other government agencies on the investigation.
#10
Still undisclosed / undiscussed was the critical necessity / boneheaded stupidity that put the controls of this pipeline on the internet in the first place. Obviously this pipeline worked JUST FINE before the internet was invented.
--- Apply any insights or lessons learned from this snafu to the management of the electric grid over the USA. Maybe the US Congress could convene hearings to improve this situation instead of doing President Buy Dung?'s bidding.
--- "Idiocracy" was a prophecy and not just a movie.
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the critical necessity / boneheaded stupidity that put the controls of this pipeline on the internet in the first place.
Hey por que no? We Americans tabulate our election results with computers connected to the internet. What could go wrong?
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Did we just witness the Bidet Presidium being introduced to hardball by Putie by calling their bluff and demonstrating what could be done "pur encourager les autres"?
#16
It was decent of the Famous But Incompetent to take time out of their harrowing schedule of storming Roger Ailes' home, restoring dignity to the scarred for life Bubba Wallace, and of course recovering Lady Ha-Ha's French bulldog to chime in. But given the source I think I may sit out the latest Russian lynch mob.
After all, who hates America and specifically the American south THAT much?
#18
The time it's taking to restore the pipeline to functionality points to abysmal disaster recovery planning on the operator's part.
You back up all your data to tape every night, store the tapes in a secure vault. When a breach occurs, determine the time of the breach and use your tapes to restore everything with data from before that time. Whatever data you collected after that time must be considered lost. Do it as quickly as possible and tell the hackers to FOAD. Take the losses and the fire the people in the IT department who were responsible for cyber security.
What? You weren't backing up your data? You're screwed.
But then, Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 is also correct. There couldn't possibly have been any need for these computers to be on the internet. Here's hoping that companies will begin to understand this now and take appropriate steps.
As I recall from my IT days before the internet, companies had private networks. They used protocols like X25 and SNA. Yes, they had to use phone lines but if you kept your phone numbers private the Chinese/Russians/Ukrainians/Romanians/Iranians/Maylasians and assorted other bad guys could not find you and, besides that, you only take calls from trusted numbers. Even then, if there are more than three unsuccessful login attempts from a number, disable it.
The internet is for advertising, public relations and online sales. Keep your mission critical data bases well away from it.
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Apparently the pipeline controls _weren't_ on the internet but the pipeline was shut down anyway while the company did damage control and (presumably) checked for the sort of software that can be used to sabotage airgapped computers.
(And frankly, I'm not really ready to believe anything from the people who spent the last 30 years or so trying to tear the US oilfield down about our supposed lax procedures now that they're most of the way through the process).
#20
Its a private matter, nothing to see here. Please move along.
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This has been a test of the National 'Red State' Pipeline shutdown alert system. Had this been a real alert, you would have been told to............
On Sunday, Colonial said that although its four main pipelines remained offline, some smaller lines between terminals and delivery points were now operational.
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https://www.fireeye.com/mandiant.html LINK
The company that found the server used to attack the pipeline to be owned by a New York hosting firm and took the server down. They are now restoring the pipeline systems from backups or recreating "what was not backed up."
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That explains this from the BBC article, Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589:
The FBI and other government agencies worked with private companies to respond - the cloud computing system the hackers used to collect the stolen data was taken offline on Saturday, Reuters reported.
A California man, 80, was attacked and robbed in broad daylight
Surveillance video sees the senior get knocked to the ground by two teens
The man could be heard screaming and calling out for help during the attack which happened on Saturday in San Leandro
..and a bystander, visible in the video, stepped away and turned his back instead of helping the old man, who had to fight off the two miscreants unaided.
The teenage suspects could also be heard laughing and giggling during assault
Attacks toward Asian Americans have spiked nearly 300% since 2020 in the city of San Leandro in the Bay Area
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We're on our own now. Time for armed patrols.
And vengeance posses. Identify locate and beat the crap out of any and all feral youth who assault an elderly person.
#6
The Asian Abuse meme in the MSM has disappeared as the frequency of these attacks reveal the wrong perpetrators to fit the narrative. Never let truth ruin a good theme is now standard journalism thinking. Bury what you don't like and lie with partial truth out of context is now standard fare.
Day 2. Yesterday’s report of the attack by Ilnaz Galyaviev, who was not reported to be a jihadi, can be seen here.
[FoxNews] Twenty-three people remained hospitalized on Wednesday following a school shooting in the Russian city of Kazan
.. in the mostly Muslim Republic of Tartarstan...
which killed nine people, including seven youngsters.
All 23 were in stable condition Wednesday morning, the authorities said, though at least eight people — three adults and five children — were to be transferred to Moscow for treatment.
[Hot Air] "These are staggering numbers," CNBC’s Rick Santelli, and while the direction was expected, the amplitude was very much a surprise. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an 0.8% jump in the Consumer Price Index for April, an annualized increase of 4.2%, far above expectations.
As Santelli explains, we’re comparing year-on-year from the first full month of COVID-19 shutdowns, so some upward pressure is normal under the circumstances. However, this looks more like actual inflation:
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See: dot-com bust - "This time it will be different..."
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The Labor Department reported its consumer-price index jumped 4.2% in April from a year earlier, up from 2.6% for the year ended in March. That is the highest 12-month level since the summer of 2008. Consumer prices increased a seasonally adjusted 0.8% in April from March.
4.2% inflation for the year (vs ~2%) and now running at 10.0% yearly inflation rate in April. Compare with your 0.01% rate on your savings account. Government is stealing your liquid wealth through at 10% running rate of inflation.
#4
If the government taxed your income at 10% is that really any different than inflating (through endless printing of money without backing) the economy and reducing the value of your income by 10%?
#5
^ No, P2K. It isn't. Inflation is how Biden will collect taxes from Americans who make less than $400,000. He lied when he said he wouldn't tax those people. He straight up lied. But then, he does that all the time. People who didn't understand that when they voted for him are ignorant, er, either that or they're not real people.
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The product you purchased from XYZ Tech is $25. more this year than last, and XYZ Tech contributes millions more to the DNC this year than last.
Isn't there a name for that sort of transaction, or am I reaching a bit too far ?
#7
Just remember how hard it was to get inflation under control the last time. I don't think anyone wants to rerun 1979-82, but that is where we're headed.
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Gish gash garsh golly gee Hot Air.
Next they will discover that the tax brackets won't change.
[Global Research] 800 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army departed from Fort Bragg in North Carolina last Friday morning for a Swift Response exercise. They were dropped into Estonia in a "joint forcible entry" operation in the early hours of Saturday. The airborne exercise is designed to test the fast response capabilities of the U.S. to defend Estonia in case of a hypothetical war with Russia. It is also part of larger NATO exercises that includes the participation of 30,000 troops doing drills with battlegroups led by the UK in Estonia, Canada in Latvia, Germany in Lithuania and the U.S. in Poland.
In effect, NATO has mobilized tens of thousands of troops right onto Russia’s border. Moscow has repeatedly expressed concern about a NATO building up in Europe and Russian Presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated that Russia does not threaten anyone but will not ignore actions that could endanger its interests.
On the Estonian television program Välisilm, Colonel Paul Clayton of the Royal British Armed Forces, unashamedly expressed, in the context of NATO’s military exercises, the types of pressure that NATO is attempting to impose against Russia. He admitted that the Alliance is helping Ukraine train its troops and praised the Estonian government for its readiness to devote more than 2% of its GDP to defense. He also recommended more frequent co-operation with Latvia and Lithuania. In his opinion, this is all the more crucial because NATO’s "Northern Division" is being built in Riga, which consists of military units from the Baltic States under the command of Denmark.
The NATO contingent deployed in the Baltic States is under the pretext of "countering Russian aggression." Moscow emphasizes, under the pretext of concern for the security of the Baltic States, that NATO has in fact provocatively brought its military bases closer to Russia’s borders. The Kremlin has also repeatedly stated that it has no plans to attack, but NATO continues to grow its potential and Russia has been forced to provide an asymmetric response to its military plans.
It is for this reason at the end of April, by presidential decree, the U.S., UK, Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Czechia, Estonia, Australia and Georgia were put on a list of countries that are "unfriendly" to Russia. Although Germany and France frequently criticize Russia, Moscow recognizes that they are to some extent independent in their decision making and are not as beholden to Washington’s interests like the listed countries are.
[FoxBusinessNews] Americans can begin applying for $50 off their monthly internet bill on Wednesday as part of an emergency government program to keep people connected during the pandemic.
The $3.2 billion program is part of the $900 billion December pandemic-relief package. The government is increasing spending on broadband as the pandemic made stark that millions of Americans did not have access to, and could not afford, broadband at a time when jobs, school and health care was moving online.
It's unclear how long the money will last but it's expected to be several months. Tens of millions of people are eligible, although the Federal Communications Commission, which is administering the program, did not specify a number.
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Sounds like the carriers last desperate attempt to head Musk, SpaceX and StarLink off at the pass before StarLink goes live (not beta) in a few months.
Currently it's around 1500 sats but only 800 are yet in proper orbits and the shells that need to be installed over the poles don't get loaded until a bunch of launches from Vandy that also require a landing barge - not yet built in the southland nor transited the Panama Canal.
Last chance before Musk owns the whole world's non-big-city Internet.
[AmsterdamUMC] Researchers at Amsterdam UMC have discovered why patients become seriously ill after being infected with the coronavirus. They identified that aberrant antibody responses are the main cause of becoming critically ill. In addition, they identified a drug that can counteract this derailed immune response, which may be used to treat seriously ill Covid patients in the ICU. This drug is already FDA approved for treatment of particular autoimmune diseases.
The Amsterdam UMC has a lot of immunological expertise, and with that background knowledge in mind drugs were selected that specifically inhibit the inflammatory response caused by the abnormal antibodies, while leaving the rest of the immune system intact. "The drug we studied, fostamatinib, ensures that the immune cells in the lungs no longer react to the abnormal antibodies, but still react to the virus. This specificity makes this drug a promising candidate for treating seriously ill covid patients." rtwt, including the original paper, which is linked here.
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I thought I highlighted that last bit. Please excuse me.
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The immune system becomes completely over-activated, which is sometimes referred to as a cytokine storm.
Seems like I've heard of that before. However, the use of an approved drug (fostamatinib)shows promise. I hope it's better received than Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin.
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if it works and is not expensive as shit it will not work.
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As I recollect, Russians tried to build this kind of thing in the 70es. The program was terminated when somebody asked them what's the diff between this and a low flying (supper unsafe) sea plane?
[Utube Video] Beginning in 1951, the CIA began to hire smokejumpers for its unconventional war operations, employing at least 115 during the Cold War. Smokejumpers are those men and women in the northwestern U.S. who jump from planes to battle fire. Why did the CIA hire smokejumpers? What jobs did they do? Where were they deployed? How did the CIA first find smokejumpers? Dr. Paul T. Carter in this 48-minute video provides the answers in this fascinating, action video with interviews, old film footage, war scenes, declassified documents, rare photos, and more.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] What's the matter, louse got your tongue? Parasite which bites off a fish's tongue and then REPLACES it is discovered by a shocked student in South Africa
Tongue-eating louse is a parasite which preys on fish, entering through their gills
Louse bites tongue's blood vessels and drinks from them until tongue falls off
Parasite then latches on to the tongue stump, effectively replacing the organ
Shocked student in South Africa discovered a louse in the mouth of his catch
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Are the evil 'Russian hackers' being replaced by mischievous teenage gamers in a Laurel, Maryland basement ? 
Much too fast for Gull feeding. You can have my seat, I'll take the ferry. 
