Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack Gives Democrats Opportunity to Get Tough on Foreign Hacking | Opinion Fred Turner
, Senior Vice President, BGR Group On 6/4/21 at 8:30 AM EDT
The events of the past month make it glaringly apparent that an agonizing reappraisal of the effectiveness of Washington s policy approach to cybersecurity is long overdue. On May 7, a cyberattack forced the shutdown of one of the largest energy pipelines in the United States, disrupting our vulnerable energy infrastructure. The attack forced Colonial Pipeline to shut down 5,500 miles of pipeline, carrying 45 percent of the East Coast s fuel supplies, and at least 11 states up and down the Eastern Seaboard experienced gas shortages for the first time in memory. According to the assessment of cybersecurity experts, this was only the latest in a string of foreign-sponsored cyberattacks that constitute one of the biggest current threats to U.S. national security.
hopefully-a-court-says-otherwise dept
Wed, Jun 23rd 2010 10:32pm
Mike Masnick
We ve been following the rather bizarre and dangerous lawsuit filed by Facebook against Power.com, an online service that tries to let users aggregate various social networking activity into a single service. All Power.com does is let a willing user have Power.com s tools log into Facebook and reuse/reformat the data within its own framework. From a user s perspective, this could be quite useful. From Facebook s perspective this is both a violation of copyright law and a violation of computer hacking laws. Why? Because Facebook says so. That is, it says so in its terms of service, and it s arguing that in ignoring the terms of service, Power.com is criminally hacking.
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Hackers targeting JBS USA have disrupted meat processing facilities around the world, just one month after the Colonial Pipeline attack caused fuel distribution havoc.