My employer will test us occasionally. Get a suspicious e-mail and use the 'report to I/T Security' button and you get a congratulations pop-up telling you you passed and the e-mail goes away. Click on the link in the e-mail and your boss gets a nastygram saying that you failed and you're assigned a refresher cybersecurity course which has to be completed within 30 days.
Colonial Pipeline stopping all operations due to cyberattack
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At my work we were constantly trained, and constantly bomarded with security information. People were given security violations for messing up, and if you received a couple violations in a given time you got removed from the program and sent looking for a new job ... they didn't mess around.
Gasoline in Virginia Beach has gone up .20/gallon in 24 hours.
The Governor has declared a state of emergency.
There are long lines at every station I went by this afternoon.
It was reminiscent of the lines in 1973-74, stretching for dozens of cars, into the street, interrupting traffic.
The Governor has declared a state of emergency.
There are long lines at every station I went by this afternoon.
It was reminiscent of the lines in 1973-74, stretching for dozens of cars, into the street, interrupting traffic.
Stations near me in Williamsburg/James City county...
No gas... Out...
This is all a good bit stupid. People need to calm down and stop panic buying... Not helping anyone.
Wish that refinery in Yorktown was still up and running.
I know the plantation pipeline ends at old Amoco docks. Should be gas there in tank farm. Also tank farms in Richmond and Petersburg.
Maybe this will slow pickup truck sales
They do that all the time at work, once even pretend to be some stress relieve perk right when we have pandemic lockdown and people were busy dealing with it. People got pretty angry about it and IT end up apologizing for being insensitive.
I just forward all outside email to phising scam now, I'll let them deal with it.
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Exactly here where I am at in the southeast they were charging 3.00/gal when the average price is 2.59 at most...
The SC, NC state AG offices have encouraged people to report suspicious prices for possible price gouging.
Someone else mentioned that the suppliers have a glut of old gas stocks that were about to expire soon (sitting at the refinery too long) so possibly it was to
quickly sell out that old product?
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Mass media (not that I trust them) claims that "russian criminals" are behind this hacking...hmmm.
Not sure I buy that.
Not sure I buy that.
That was what the article said on May 8, not what I say. How would I know? I didn’t say that let’s be clear, the article I referred to did and it was last Saturday. When it’s picked out of context it makes it seem like I said that. I didn’t. The article is in the original post.
Not sure what pick ups have to do with everyone hoarding fuel. Full tank in my Ram will last 2 weeks at 40 miles a day.
FBI confirms that it's DarkSide. They're not necessarily Russian, but there are claims that their ransomware specifically checks for language and avoids most languages in the former USSR.
https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/p...t-on-compromise-of-colonial-pipeline-networks
Everyone is not making up stuff and plotting things. They just retell what reports are saying. Its the way things work. They get info and report it at the time. Later it may change and that doesn’t mean the first info was a plot, or a lie. Put a “may be” before behind and take out the are. Then take out “claims” and put in “reports.” Less dramatic?
Mass media (not that I trust them) reports that "russian criminals" may be behind this hacking.
Peace on earth folks.
Some might not be able to drive to work and in trouble.
It's obvious that whoever did this are criminals. Kind of the definition of anyone demanding ransom to restore a system. Not sure about Russian, but it's pretty much been confirmed to be DarkSide.
Craziness.
I wonder if this shows how little gas people buy on a regular basis. I mean: it was nothing for someone to go in and buy 10 pallets of toilet paper and shove into their basement. To do similar for gasoline would require them to buy barrels or tanks or similar since you can't just stack gasoline like that. This is what, a couple days of reduced supply? yet "everyone" goes and fills their vehicle tanks and the pumps run dry.
[I point this out as I've watched EV threads and people are upset about long charge times, yet most people aren't filling up their car every day of the week. Not that EV has anything to do with this thread, not that I want to derail this thread, just that it is something I've wondered about--people are typically using 10% of their fuel tank range on a daily basis, something like that, based on gas consumption versus number of vehicles in the US.]
Then again maybe I'm wrong. Cut the supply and the gas stations only have a couple days of reserve. Not that they want more (nobody wants old gas) but yet shows how seemingly weak our infrastructure is.
I wonder if this shows how little gas people buy on a regular basis. I mean: it was nothing for someone to go in and buy 10 pallets of toilet paper and shove into their basement. To do similar for gasoline would require them to buy barrels or tanks or similar since you can't just stack gasoline like that. This is what, a couple days of reduced supply? yet "everyone" goes and fills their vehicle tanks and the pumps run dry.
[I point this out as I've watched EV threads and people are upset about long charge times, yet most people aren't filling up their car every day of the week. Not that EV has anything to do with this thread, not that I want to derail this thread, just that it is something I've wondered about--people are typically using 10% of their fuel tank range on a daily basis, something like that, based on gas consumption versus number of vehicles in the US.]
Then again maybe I'm wrong. Cut the supply and the gas stations only have a couple days of reserve. Not that they want more (nobody wants old gas) but yet shows how seemingly weak our infrastructure is.
I have heard that a lot of fuel retailers have encouraged filling up often. I heard it somehow changes the demand side and increases prices. But they try to justify it by claiming that less dead space in a fuel tank is somehow better.
But absolutely industries rely on just in time delivery in order to save on certain costs. As for gas stations - some in low traffic locations get occasional deliveries. A Costco usually gets deliveries throughout the day. However, I could very well imagine that when there's a rush for fuel, people will look at the lines and think maybe they can go to that little corner gas station and then find that dozens of other people thought the same thing.
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Got to thinking about this some more … we get trained on cyber security and have mock phishing attacks often … and you don’t want to fail them … multiple layers of management get the reports …
But attacks are so often initiated with “click this bait” …
So with many websites requiring you to click yes, no, accept, more info (cookies etc) … is it possible to plant malware behind those “buttons” ?
Slow? It is slow already because the inventory is sitting at the assembly plants without electronics.
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