Cyberattacker hits German service station petrol terminal provider Two companies owned by Hamburg-based company fuel group Marquard & Bahls are battling cyberattackers, with loading and unloading systems at the German arm of petrol tank terminal provider Oiltanking affected. HAMBURG – OCT 31: Oiltanking Tank Farm. October 31, 2018 in Hamburg, Germany. Oiltanking is a operator of tank …
Is it really too much to ask, or even demand, that such companies (e.g. rather important infrastructure etc.), "took steps to enhance the security of our systems and processes" BEFORE such fecking attacks take place! I mean let's face it for several decades ahead global powers are going to be increasingly slugging it out in this manner!
That's what I was thinking too. Declaring "force majeure", when they don't yet know if it could have been defended against if only they'd paid more than lip service to security. It may well turn out that they did do all reasonably possible, but I find that in almost every case of security intrusion reported, they missed some "best practice" solutions.
I know that's a joke, but I do hope it is expensive, and the insurance companies don't bail them out. It's the only way they'll learn to spend money on security.
I'll bet there were folk that said "don't connect this to the internet" and they were overruled by management that wanted the convenience.
This only is another example how vulnerable our infrastructure and logistics are and if anything goes wrong, all goes down. So while I am a part and workingin this IT industry as well, I am a big fan of, while automating everything, still always plan for a backup (manual, "analog") procedure to run basic tasks if systems fail.
The truth:
"We are working in a M$ monoculture; we neglected our preventive IT scurity; a staffer opened a SPAM AND opened the attachment AND allowed macros."
Ouch!
Instead of the common "attack" by SPAM it may have been an attack against the known weaknesses of the M$ Exchange Server, automated as well.
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