Governors Wind Energy Coalition
Colonial Pipeline CEO Tells Why He Paid Hackers a $4.4 Million Ransom Source: By Collin Eaton, Wall Street Journal • Posted: Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Joseph Blount says he needed to quickly restore service after cyberattack threatened East Coast supply
The Colonial Pipeline provides roughly 45% of East Coast fuel, the company says; storage tanks connected to the pipeline in Baltimore. Photo: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg News
The operator of the Colonial Pipeline learned it was in trouble at daybreak on May 7, when an employee found a ransom note from hackers on a control-room computer. By that night, the company’s chief executive came to a difficult conclusion: He had to pay.
Colonial Pipeline CEO Tells Why He Paid Hackers a $4 4 Million Ransom msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
(Image credit – Bret Hartman / TED)
President Biden announced on April 22 that he is nominating Asmeret Berhe to be director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. With a $7 billion annual budget, the office is the federal government’s largest funder of fundamental research in the physical sciences.
Berhe is a biogeochemist at the University of California, Merced, who researches interactions between organic matter in the soil and environmental shifts such as climate change. This focus aligns with the Biden administration’s climate agenda as well as activities supported through the Office of Science’s Biological and Environmental Research program.