We’ve seen this movie before. After warnings go unheeded, a predictable, completely avoidable disaster strikes the US in the process, revealing a soft, exposed underbelly of risk. And the people who get paid to stop this kind of thing from happening never seem to learn, most of the time, until it’s too late or nearly. This time, it was the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline which took the US to the brink of a major national energy.
Hollywood films may present as collectives as groups of programmers furiously typing away at keyboards in dark rooms, but cybersecurity experts say real-life groups are far more professional more closely resembling startups than 80s hacker flicks.
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