Comment Re:Cool! (Score 3, Insightful) 75
Not like sharing war plans over Signal
MBAs have ruined more companies than any other cause. They are just glorified accountants and typically have no understanding of the actual business, products, or customers. They are the heart of the consulting firms that are constantly selling (at a very high price) the latest management fad. That is one profession that I expect could be replaced with an AI and no one would notice.
100% this...
I hate it when they just report "compromised computer systems", they need to go into more detail. Like the recent water plant attacks, the media reported it like it was a advanced novel thing that involved sophisticated methods, but in reality the PLCs affected were connected directly to the Internet, with all their ports open to the world so anyone with the programming software or the ability to read/write Modbus, Ethernet/IP, DNP3, etc. and Internet access had the ability to take control of the PLC.
Was everything in this city just sitting on a flat network with no segmentation? Was the vector an email, USB drive, compromised NMS? Were the dispatch consoles also used for "general computing" functions? Was it a ransomware attack, an APT, script kiddie playing around with everything they could get access to?
"Preserving evidence for federal investigation"
Measure twice, cut once.