Are We Waiting for Everyone to Get Hacked?

[hooligan]

Originally Posted by mkpunk

Are we waiting for everyone to get hacked, yes. We should have acted fast more swiftly with Russia over the oil pipeline ransomware attack. To me it is similar to an act of war and should be treated as such. Why, it is economic terrorism.

Is there a demonstrable link between the Russian government and "Darkside" or whatever the hacking group is called? Unlike FancyBear/CozyBear, I believe the answer is "no".

Ransomware attacks are not new. The fact that much of it comes out of Eastern Europe is, also, not new.

[hooligan]

Originally Posted by Kevroqs

That's what happens when you still use Windows 95 with the password "admin" (without quotation marks)

Or leave your router/switch passwords set to "cisco123".

[Dane_in_LA]

Originally Posted by saltine

What are we paying our piece of crap government for?

Imagine the porcine squeals of outrage about "government overreach" and "interference in the market" and "picking winners and losers" in case any sort of legislation was passed to enforce that companies had to run an infrastructure with fewer holes than a shotgunned Swiss cheese.