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City Of Pensacola Under Cyber Attack
December 9, 2019
The City of Pensacola is under cyber attack and has been for more than two days.
“The FBI has not identified a connection between the cyber incident reported by the City of Pensacola and the NAS Pensacola shooting. Our preliminary investigation continues,” the FBI said in a statement Monday night.
Almost all computer systems and communications are down, including phones and email. Billing systems for Pensacola Energy and the sanitation department are also unavailable.
The city does not yet have an estimate on when services will be fully restored,” according to a statement released at 6:15 p.m. Monday.
“We are at this point going in two different directions,” Mayor Grover Robinson said in a morning press conference. “We’re working it from a legal standpoint, trying to work it forensically that way, trying to figure out who this was. And two, where do we go from here in putting our system back together.”
Emergency dispatch and 911 are not impacted, and the Pensacola International Airport is operating normally.
The mayor said he was unable to comment if there has been a ransom demand, and it’s not known if the cyber attack is in anyway related to the shooting and events at NAS Pensacola.
The notified the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and Florida Department of Law Enforcement about the incident as a precaution.”The City of Pensacola has notified the FBI of a potential cyber related incident. We are providing resources to assist,” the FBI said in a released statement.
The attack began in the early morning hour Saturday.
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13 Responses to “City Of Pensacola Under Cyber Attack”
It doesn’t matter if you use a credit card, bank account, or even use the Internet. This is about infrastructure. Cyber security is a part of that.
The city of Pascagoula, MS also had a cyber attack yesterday.
Someone on the inside most likely ran a malware app, which generally cant happen if the all the antivirus and software is update to date. It sounds like the IT department failed big time and now they are promoting some story about cyber attacks. Most likely some negligent employee
Firewalls don’t prevent or stop ransomware usually to get it you have to give access to an outside party ie:the hackers and they then have access to all of your passwords and data. They then either encrypt and change your passwords or just change your passwords either way you are completely screwed at that point.
But seriously someone has to let them in the pc for them to be able to do that. If you go into dos you can find the file where they have stored their programs and change some code to “break” the program sometimes you don’t even need to use dos. I’ve actually had to do this a time or two for family members lol.
The politicians in Washington DC should focus more on the attacks on our country than Impeachment of our President!
You need to have the FBI and Homeland let one the hackers on their payroll have a crack at this. Bet they could find where it came from and then fix it with a strong firewall.
When your system is linked to the internet for customers to pay bills through their banks, there is no way for it to be a “closed” system. You can’t be in-house only and conduct business with the outside world.
Well hackers don’t need you to use your credit or debit cards online to get your info that is what is called a big fat myth. Stores ie: target, Walmart, tom thumb, wherever you do business with anything otter then cash uses the internet to send your card and pin number online to the issuers of said cards. Every single time you swipe be it at a gas pump or at the grocery store you send your information into the internet.
So with that being said if a hacker wants your credentials they can effortlessly attain them.
As for the city being taken hostage well what type of hostage situation are we talking here? Is the city locked out of the accounts are they locked out of the system because there are ways around both of those types of situations. Ways that do not include paying ransoms.
All of this technology and in an instant , crippled – pencil and paper – back to the stone age
cyber attack after a terrorist attack……..
The actual source of this attack may never be revealed.
Call me old-fashioned if you want to….I do not pay bills, conduct banking, or use a credit card on the internet. A mere chance of this happening is too much aggravation for me.
With the technology we have there has to be a way to have a closed system.