Computer crimes should be eligible for death penalty....AT&T paid $400K random!

[O.T.I.S.]

"we dont negotiate with terro---uhhhh 5 mil? and you promise youll leave us alone?"

What other options did they really have though?

technology wasn’t the error, humans were the fukking error.

someone clicked on a phishing email... there is cyber awareness training SPECIFICALLY for that.

Most attacks are specifically human error


And they saw how quickly people went stupid just over gas.... it was dog eat dog at the fuel pumps. People hoarding gas in plastic bags and other stupid shyt.

5 million is chump change to end the chaos BUT this will entice more hackers to increase more attacks. But ransomware is increasing by the day. People are paying for their data everyday. Cryptocurrency makes it easier to do that too.

Not sure if people were aware of Babuk (sp?) stealing police records in from Washington police department of known informants and other info and they refused to pay. So they released it just this week.

Schools getting hit with ransomware, etc. people need more training and the risk of attacks need more mitigations but it’s just the beginning

 

[Professor Emeritus]

"we dont negotiate with terro---uhhhh 5 mil? and you promise youll leave us alone?"

FWIW the company paid the ransom, not the government. Corporations negotiate and bribe terrorists all the time.

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

The Colonial Pipeline Attack Is a Dark Omen

 

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[TheAnointedOne]

We already live in a draconian society where folks are getting life sentences for minor crimes. We have the largest prison population in the world. We over punish people. We should be headed in the opposite direction; not follow your suggestion in capital punishment for hackers.

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

Food supply chain

 

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[The Bilingual Gringo]

Meanwhile, the US government is too busy playing tit for tat with the party system and an overall Gerontocracy is too outdated to pass proper legislation and regulation to deal with this.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Justice Department to treat ransomware attacks with similar priority as terrorism

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Don’t rule out most if not all of these attacks being inside jobs. Especially with that much being paid out.

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

WSJ News Exclusive | FBI Director Compares Ransomware Challenge to 9/11

Always a couple steps behind

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

Ransomware attacks are closing schools, delaying chemotherapy and derailing everyday life

Delaying chemotherapy

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

horrible take

Bet your opinion would change if they messed with your money

Americans face mounting risk of hackers taking over brokerage accounts, regulators say

 

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Executive Order on Protecting Americans’ Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries | The White House