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Oil terminals disrupted after European ports hit by cyberattack

• politelemon 5y ago
  Many nations have spent a long time neglecting cybersecurity for infrastructure (critical, semi-, or otherwise). And as with all things 'tech debt' it's a lot more expensive to fix down the line and there isn't the budget/willingness to do it. (I won't be surprised if it's combined with a healthy dose of "hope this doesn't happen to my stuff"). We're going to see more of this in the future (well it's already escalating) and I should expect that this gets woven into the tapestry of modern warfare alongside proxy and economic wars.
  • sschueller 5y ago
    Yes, almost always the case that security has been neglected but to save face a advanced hacker group or some nation state will be blamed when it was probably some low end criminals that purchased some ransomware services probably with their personal credit cards...