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This is the show for busy oil pros.

I want to quickly keep their finger on the pulse.

Hey, guys, sorry to interrupt, but I think we have a DDoS attack coming in.

Nothing to worry about, Mike.

I'm sure it's just the freaking Russians again.

They try this at least once a month, A bunch of amateurs. Mark, Michael. I'm not so sure. Take a look at the size of this botnet. No way, that's the Russians. Way too big and sophisticated. WP Engine is reporting multiple attackers. They are rate-limiting routers and dropping spoof packets. Microsoft is also. They're over-provisioning bandwidth and have stepped up volume level and file-level

encryption. Damn. Their transport layer just went down. AI sandboxing commencing.

WP Engine just implemented border gateway protocols. I have never seen a cyber attack hit this hard

and fast. Oh, shit. What? They breached through. Looks like a sin flood. I see over 87,000 spoofed IP addresses. Our routers are losing TCP connections. Pull down the dual land rudders now. Overclock all processors. But that will destroy our computers. No choice. We are losing control and have to fight back. More inbound coming in hot. Can we know Ralph is traffic?

Good call. Wait. I've lost all communications inside our land. They planted a root kit.

Pull the damn plug. Disconnect everything now. Oh my God, who would do this?

Losing all visibility.

OGGN defense is nullified.

We are now in complete control.

Hey, good afternoon from Whiskey Cake in Houston.

It's Jason here from IBM.

So guys, I think these blocs forgot who paid the bills around here.

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