Minnesota Activates National Guard After St. Paul Cyberattack (bleepingcomputer.com) 61
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has activated the National Guard to assist the City of Saint Paul after a cyberattack crippled the city's digital services on Friday. "The city is currently working with local, state, and federal partners to investigate the attack and restore full functionality, and says that emergency services have been unaffected," reports BleepingComputer. "However, online payments are currently unavailable, and some services in libraries and recreation centers are temporarily unavailable." From the report: The attack has persisted through the weekend, causing widespread disruptions across the city after affecting St. Paul's digital services and critical systems. "St. Paul officials have been working around the clock since discovering the cyberattack, closely coordinating with Minnesota Information Technology Services and an external cybersecurity vendor. Unfortunately, the scale and complexity of this incident exceeded both internal and commercial response capabilities," reads an emergency executive order (PDF) signed on Tuesday.
"As a result, St. Paul has requested cyber protection support from the Minnesota National Guard to help address this incident and make sure that vital municipal services continue without interruption." "The decision to deploy cyber protection support from the Minnesota National Guard comes at the city's request, after the cyberattack's impact exceeded St. Paul's incident response capacity. This will ensure the continuity of vital services for Saint Paul residents, as well as their security and safety while ongoing disruptions are being mitigated. "We are committed to working alongside the City of Saint Paul to restore cybersecurity as quickly as possible," Governor Walz said on Tuesday. "The Minnesota National Guard's cyber forces will collaborate with city, state, and federal officials to resolve the situation and mitigate lasting impacts."
"As a result, St. Paul has requested cyber protection support from the Minnesota National Guard to help address this incident and make sure that vital municipal services continue without interruption." "The decision to deploy cyber protection support from the Minnesota National Guard comes at the city's request, after the cyberattack's impact exceeded St. Paul's incident response capacity. This will ensure the continuity of vital services for Saint Paul residents, as well as their security and safety while ongoing disruptions are being mitigated. "We are committed to working alongside the City of Saint Paul to restore cybersecurity as quickly as possible," Governor Walz said on Tuesday. "The Minnesota National Guard's cyber forces will collaborate with city, state, and federal officials to resolve the situation and mitigate lasting impacts."
Being born and raised in Minnesota.. (Score:3)
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WTF can the national guard do to help mitigate being hacked? Who are they going to shoot?
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Why would the Guard's cyber division be shooting anybody?
Haven’t you heard of screen shots?
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Minnesota has a dedicated cyber unit in the Guard: the 177th Cyber Protection Team (CPT).
These are citizen-Soldiers who work full-time in cybersecurity: analysts, engineers, and incident responders from across the private and public sectors. Many hold certifications like CISSP, CEH, and OSCP.
They are trained to:
Contain and mitigate active threats
Perform forensics and recovery
Coordinate with MNIT, DHS, FBI
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Yeah.. I flew into Minneapolis for a 1 month contract job and got mugged by 4 people on my 6th day there. Was fun.
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Re:Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (Score:5, Insightful)
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I bet you're not a parent.
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I would like to think that all Americans support the ideal of feeding and educating our kids, and the value in helping our neighbors in need.
If that were true, I would have had school lunches 50+ years ago. I didn't. If that were true, my son would have had school lunches provided by someone other than me. He didn't. If that were true, my son's future child would also be given lunch at school. They won't.
We have been lied to all of our lives. "We care!", lol, fuck no. You only care about your cocaine fueled orgies with underage children/ leisure, and cruelty. Our society is utterly and completely corrupt. An American citizen was "deported". How
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LOL, nobody cares about any of that. Work or die. *shrug* The kids will figure it out or be eliminated. Nobody has time for that namby pamby bullshit. Grow up and get to work... or die. Nobody cares. If they did care, then working would guarantee survival; however, work no longer guarantees survival. If your job is to clean up after others,, fuck you, starve to death. You should have found something more valuable to do.
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Parents who fail to feed their children properly should lose parental rights and their children given to someone who will feed them properly.
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In the extreme, maybe. I would start with the point of view that every parent wants to feed their children well, and wants them to be prosperous.
That certainly the describes the ones that leave their kid(s) in the car to die in the heat while they visit the adult store, bar, casino, etc.
If a parent is not fulfilling that ideal, .. then ?? Maybe give them some support and help? or punish? or ignore?
There is ample help for parents already. If they're still managing to not feed their children properly, it's either intentional or gross stupidity. Either way, they shouldn't have custody of children.
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That certainly the describes the ones that leave their kid(s) in the car to die in the heat while they visit the adult store, bar, casino, etc.
No shit, Sherlock, there are in fact awful people in this world. And some of them have unfortunately reproduced. You'd have a hard time finding anyone who genuinely believes that someone who is willing to leave their child in a car to die in the heat so they can go to the bar is a good parent. And comparing that to someone who can't afford school lunch? Disgusting.
If they're still managing to not feed their children properly, it's either intentional or gross stupidity.
Genuine question: Have you ever been in a position where you needed some sort assistance? Food, housing, money, or otherwise? I have, both as a child and as a much younger adult. And I can tell you first hand: It's a giant pain in the ass to get it. Once you do get it, it doesn't come close to meeting basic needs. And it's a giant pain in the ass to not lose it. The stigma attached to it can be soul-crushing. But hey, fuck them kids. Can't feed 'em, don't breed 'em, amiright?
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Yeah, because it will cost a lot less to take kids away from parents that are poor and dealing with food insecurity and put them into an already overburdened foster care system where the state has to pay for their food and clothes and a roof over their heads instead of just providing support to the family and making sure the kids have access to the food they need.
Seriously, this is braindead thinking. CPS is for parents that are an actual problem, not ones who are simply poor. It costs so much less to add
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Are there kids going hungry?
Yes.
Is there a -financial- reason for that?
Yes. School lunches cost money. Some people, often through no fault of their own, end up in situations where they don't have any.
We give out tons of free food money to everyone who needs it.
Keep telling yourself that, if it makes you feel better. The average SNAP benefit is $174/month/person. What's your monthly food budget? Oh, by the way, school lunch alone is around $100/month.
and many who don't
Boo fucking hoo. Being mad about people getting fed just blows my mind.
If they aren't being fed with all that free food then quite likely they're being neglected or out right abused in other ways as well and our responsibility as a civil society us to rescue those children from abuse at home, not to slap a bandaid over it with additional free food at school and feel good about ourselves over a badly made sandwich and a sour apple.
And off the deep end you went. Went from "free lunch" to "likely neglected or abused" in one sentence. Nice wo
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As in, too much food. More calories in than out.
No, it's the wrong type of food. Food that has excessive empty calories. Bought by parents who work 2 or 3 jobs and don't have time and resources to buy healthy food.
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This took all of 3 seconds to type into google
Since you had to Google it I'd say it's fair to assume you've never personally had to deal with anything on that list?
Most rich liberals like yourself
I say this in the least respectful way possible: Go. Fuck. Yourself. You don't know a thing about me, where I came from, or how much money I make. If you weren't such a useless prick I'd happily explain my background, and why I'm familiar with just about every one of the programs on that list. But I'm not going to bother dignifying you with details on any of it because, frankly, you're not
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Sounds great in theory. In practice the world is full of assholes and incompetents who should have never procreated. Why should those children suffer?
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Fuck you! No seriously, you are the lowest scumbag in this discussion. So seriously sick and twisted it's not worthy trying to reason with you. People like you need to be put into a psych ward before we find the uneaten bodies in your freezer.
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What about the values that every child who goes to school should have a good breakfast and lunch?
Indeed. What about those values? As far as I know, they do not exist. I went to school on 2 bowls of cereal and was unable to eat anything until dinner. There were no school lunches available for my own son unless I created them, which I did. If my son decides to have a child, there will be no food for them unless my son makes it available.
Long story short, I have no idea which country you think you live in, but it is NOT the USA. We don't give a shit about anyone else's kids unless they are being diddled b
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What is the National Guard (Score:1)
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Could be lots of reasons.
D.B. Cooper did it for cold, hard cash.
Others have been motivated by a desire to escape whatever shit hole they were stuck in at the time.
Others have been motivated (allegedly) by religion/politics.
Others are probably seeking fame.
Others just want to kill people.
Personally? If I were going to do it? Kinda hard to say. I'd either end up in jail or dead by the time it was over, so that leaves out a lot of motivations simply by thoughtful elimination. So, I guess I would probably do i
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Some people have no life and their freedom is useless because they're losers. So all they have left is to try for fame.
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9/11 changed hijacking forever. Nowadays the entire plane is going to bring an ass whooping.
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The US national guard website is "configured to block access from [my] country" so I can't be sure, but I expect the "cyber soldiers" might be doing a lot of carrying backup tapes around and typing things like "tar -xz" and "passwd -l".
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So who did it? (Score:2)
Were they Russians, or someone paid by MAGAts?
Nat'l Guard helping resolve cyber security issues? (Score:1)
Is this something all National Guards offer? I've never run across an instance of this being mentioned before. I would have thought that the FBI would be the lead organization for such.
I understand "The city is currently working with local, state, and federal partners to investigate"...