The Colonial pipeline cyberattack wasn t even the worst this year MSNBC 3 hrs ago Marc Ambinder
Last Friday, cyber extortionists penetrated the networks of the company that controls the fuel pipeline serving half of the United States. The company shut down its industrial systems as a precaution, only starting the process of turning them back on late Wednesday. That’s scary, as the lines of people on the east coast waiting to fill their tanks can attest.
Colonial Pipeline restarting operations amid frenzy at gas stations across Southeast
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But if you’re looking for a way to put this incident in its proper, even more frightening context, look to the testimony Brandon Wales, the acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency gave to Congress on Tuesday. CISA, part of the Department of Homeland Security, is in charge of protecting critical infrastructure from cyberattack. But after an attack on some of the countr
Colonial Pipeline hack gas shortage warns of worse future cyberattacks
The Colonial pipeline hack is just the latest in a string of major cyberattacks.
America needs to protect itself against the next ransomware attack on critical infrastructure.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty Images
May 13, 2021, 9:39 AM UTC / Updated May 13, 2021, 3:40 PM UTC
Last Friday, cyber extortionists penetrated the networks of the company that controls the fuel pipeline serving half of the United States. The company shut down its industrial systems as a precaution, only starting the process of turning them back on late Wednesday. That’s scary, as the lines of people on the east coast waiting to fill their tanks can attest.
A cyberattack last week that shut down a pipeline, which carries nearly half of the East Coast’s jet fuel and gasoline, raises the question for the zillionth time: When is the government going to start taking serious measures to prevent, or at least minimize, these debilitating potentially catastrophic incidents?
One possibly serious step is about to take place the installment of a first-ever National Cyber Director, an official vested (at least on paper) with powers to order, coordinate, and enforce cybersecurity actions in the public and private sector.
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It’s pathetic that this step has taken so long. As far back as 1984, a national-security directive, signed by President Ronald Reagan, warned that computer networks, which were just then emerging, were “highly susceptible to interception, unauthorized electronic access, and related forms of technical exploitation” by “terrorist groups and criminal elements.” In 1997, a commission appointed by President
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