UK blames "Russia" for 'malicious' NotPetya cyber-attack

Will Trump take serious this UK´s rapport ? or he will always believe to his Friend vova´s words , that Vova didn´t do it?


"The Russian military was directly behind a "malicious" cyber-attack on Ukraine last summer that spread across Europe, British ministers have said.

The UK government has taken the unusual step of publicly accusing Russia of June's NotPetya ransomware attack.

Reckitt Benckiser - maker of Dettol, Durex and Strepsils - was among the UK firms whose sales were affected.

Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said Russia was "ripping up the rule book" and the UK was duty-bound to respond.

Russia has denied responsibility for the NotPetya attack - which is estimated to have cost companies more than $1.2bn - and pointed out that Russian firms were among those whose systems were affected.

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Ukraine has been locked in a simmering conflict with Russian-backed separatists since Moscow annexed Crimea in 2014.

In the NotPetya attack, businesses which strong trade links with Ukraine, such as Reckitt Benckister, Dutch delivery firm TNT and Danish shipping giant Maersk were badly affected.

Reckitt Benckiser, whose other brands include Nurofen, Veet and Clearasil, said the attack disrupted its manufacturing output and shipping capacity for up to two months and contributed to a fall in revenues. "

UK blames Russia for 'malicious' NotPetya cyber-attack - BBC News

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Will Trump take serious this UK´s rapport ? or he will always believe to his Friend vova´s words , that Vova didn´t do it?


"The Russian military was directly behind a "malicious" cyber-attack on Ukraine last summer that spread across Europe, British ministers have said.

The UK government has taken the unusual step of publicly accusing Russia of June's NotPetya ransomware attack.

Reckitt Benckiser - maker of Dettol, Durex and Strepsils - was among the UK firms whose sales were affected.

Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said Russia was "ripping up the rule book" and the UK was duty-bound to respond.

Russia has denied responsibility for the NotPetya attack - which is estimated to have cost companies more than $1.2bn - and pointed out that Russian firms were among those whose systems were affected.

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Ukraine has been locked in a simmering conflict with Russian-backed separatists since Moscow annexed Crimea in 2014.

In the NotPetya attack, businesses which strong trade links with Ukraine, such as Reckitt Benckister, Dutch delivery firm TNT and Danish shipping giant Maersk were badly affected.

Reckitt Benckiser, whose other brands include Nurofen, Veet and Clearasil, said the attack disrupted its manufacturing output and shipping capacity for up to two months and contributed to a fall in revenues. "

UK blames Russia for 'malicious' NotPetya cyber-attack - BBC News

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Having manufacturing plants connected to the internet is dumb, everyone has long known that internet security is very poor, and that governments are either unwilling or unable to do better at securing it.

Hawkeye10 said:

Having manufacturing plants connected to the internet is dumb, everyone has long known that internet security is very poor, and that governments are either unwilling or unable to do better at securing it.

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It is not the internet that is insecure. It is only a highway. It is the users who stupidly take technology for granted and don't secure their portals, entry ramps to the internet, who are the problem. It has become an essential necessity for manufacturing plants to communicate with their own staffs, suppliers, customers and other resources available on the net. Every road has potholes, an attentive driver avoids them. A stupid and sloppy driver destroys his vehicle.

OldFatGuy said:

It is not the internet that is insecure. It is only a highway. It is the users who stupidly take technology for granted and don't secure their portals, entry ramps to the internet, who are the problem. It has become an essential necessity for manufacturing plants to communicate with their own staffs, suppliers, customers and other resources available on the net. Every road has potholes, an attentive driver avoids them. A stupid and sloppy driver destroys his vehicle.

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In engineering we learn about isolating systems, I fail to see why this is not possible here. "Stupid a sloppy" fits here, as it does with the apparent fact that the Navy has just now figured out that several mission critical systems aboard our new $14 billion dollar aircraft carrier cannot be isolated and shut down for repair while they are out to sea, making it impossible for crews to repair them while they are on a mission, so once they go down the whole expensive very important with several thousand people aboard strike platform becomes useless very easily. It is like a cancer this lack of will to do what we can to do things well, which has now progressed to the point that it will be very difficult for the geniuses to keep what little remains of the confidence of the little people in their ability and will to do jobs correctly.

The Navy's new, urinal-free supercarrier is facing a ton of problems - Business Insider

Hawkeye10 said:

In engineering we learn about isolating systems, I fail to see why this is not possible here. "Stupid a sloppy" fits here, as it does with the apparent fact that the Navy has just now figured out that several mission critical systems aboard our new $14 billion dollar aircraft carrier cannot be isolated and shut down for repair while they are out to sea, making it impossible for crews to repair them while they are on a mission, so once they go down the whole expensive very important with several thousand people aboard strike platform becomes useless very easily. It is like a cancer this lack of will to do what we can to do things well, which has now progressed to the point that it will be very difficult for the geniuses to keep what little remains of the confidence of the little people in their ability and will to do jobs correctly.

The Navy's new, urinal-free supercarrier is facing a ton of problems - Business Insider

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The genius was not the guy who invented the wheel. It was the guy who figured out how to mount two wheels to an axle and use it the wheel to make a cart. The problem the first cart user found, he couldn't use the cart if he didn't lubricated the axle, and while he lubricated the axel he couldn't use the cart. No technology is perfect, nothing made by man is perfect. Whining won't cure the problem, so we fix the problem and go on to the next problem, hoping one day all the problems with a specific technology will be cured. An unfulfilled hope, but we've come along way since that guy invented the wheel had to figure out what to do with it.

OldFatGuy said:

The genius was not the guy who invented the wheel. It was the guy who figured out how to mount two wheels to an axle and use it the wheel to make a cart. The problem the first cart user found, he couldn't use the cart if he didn't lubricated the axle, and while he lubricated the axel he couldn't use the cart. No technology is perfect, nothing made by man is perfect. Whining won't cure the problem, so we fix the problem and go on to the next problem, hoping one day all the problems with a specific technology will be cured. An unfulfilled hope, but we've come along way since that guy invented the wheel had to figure out what to do with it.

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Yes OK.....and from what I have been reading of the geniuses they understand that they have been consistently losing ground to the bad guys vis-a-vis the internet for a decade, with no hope in sight for better, so what is the excuse for manufacturing plants to still be connected to the internet now? Seems like there has been plenty of warning.

You were better off with your "Stupid and Sloppy" argument.

Hawkeye10 said:

Yes OK.....and from what I have been reading of the geniuses they understand that they have been consistently losing ground to the bad guys vis-a-vis the internet for a decade, with no hope in sight for better, so what is the excuse for manufacturing plants to still be connected to the internet now? Seems like there has been plenty of warning.

You were better off with your "Stupid and Sloppy" argument.

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Don't believe everything you read, especially from critics who have never left their armchairs.

Hawkeye10 said:

In engineering we learn about isolating systems, I fail to see why this is not possible here. "Stupid a sloppy" fits here, as it does with the apparent fact that the Navy has just now figured out that several mission critical systems aboard our new $14 billion dollar aircraft carrier cannot be isolated and shut down for repair while they are out to sea, making it impossible for crews to repair them while they are on a mission, so once they go down the whole expensive very important with several thousand people aboard strike platform becomes useless very easily. It is like a cancer this lack of will to do what we can to do things well, which has now progressed to the point that it will be very difficult for the geniuses to keep what little remains of the confidence of the little people in their ability and will to do jobs correctly.

The Navy's new, urinal-free supercarrier is facing a ton of problems - Business Insider

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When was the last time you examined modern code? I can remember writing a functional OS in two days. Now, with contributions from multiple programmers, some with a million or two lines of code produced over years.... draw your own conclusions.

OldFatGuy said:

When was the last time you examined modern code? I can remember writing a functional OS in two days. Now, with contributions from multiple programmers, some with a million or two lines of code produced over years.... draw your own conclusions.

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I conclude that I am getting sand thrown into my face.


Thursday, July 20, 2017

MR. HARRIS: So let's put this in some real
context. If today I decided I wanted to abandon my career
as a Wall Street Journal writer and go out and hire
somebody in the dark web to go out and launch an
infrastructure attack on a power grid in a minor
metropolitan area, and, let's say, I had unlimited
resources to do it, conceivably how easy is that? What
obstacles would I face in doing so?

MR. GRIFFIN: Very little, very little. If you
can navigate your way across, or you can find somebody to
navigate your way across the dark web you can find people
that are willing to participate. Again, their motivation
is economic. It's the ultimate pay-for-performance job,
right, they don't get paid unless they do things that cause
them -- value expressed. I think it would be incredibly --
I think the barrier to entry for somebody to be able to do
that is minimal at best.

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BOB GRIFFIN CEO, Ayasdi
PG 12
http://aspensecurityforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/War-by-Other-Means.pdf

Hawkeye10 said:

I conclude that I am getting sand thrown into my face.


Thursday, July 20, 2017

BOB GRIFFIN CEO, Ayasdi
PG 12
http://aspensecurityforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/War-by-Other-Means.pdf

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Like I said, don't believe everything you read. The give away is "Dark Web." For those in the know, the "Dark Web" is the reaches of the net where there isn't much traffic, yet. Who will you find in the dark web? Amazon.com, Apple Inc., Costco, Qualcom, and a myriad of other well know names handling their own intraoffice needs. Less likely to be disturbed thanks to lesser traffic. No 14 year old rural bored boys from Romania stumbling in.

My custom SG server maintains an address on the darkest of regions from the net. Only a dozen people knows it exists there and have that address. I've been using that address for more than 25 years. And it wasn't an intentional choice. It was the result of a mistake.

Dark Web conspiracies are fantasies.