The Grid Wasn’t Attacked in the Colonial Pipeline Hack – But It Sure Was Close
The Colonial Pipeline hack caused mass panic in many parts of the nation due to concerns that fuel would run out and that gas station pumps would be empty for an unknown ...
What We Can Learn from the Colonial Pipeline Breach
On June 8, 2021, Joseph Blount, President and Chief Executive Officer of Colonial Pipeline, appeared before the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs regarding the breach that injected ...
ANOM FBI Global Crime Sting, Colonial Pipeline Updates, Password Leak Research
Details about the “ANOM” global crime sting where the FBI created a fake encrypted mobile phone for criminals that promised secure communications, new details about how the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack started, ...
Colonial Pipeline Disrupted By Single Password | Avast
Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount told a U.S. Senate committee that the ransomware attack that disrupted fuel distribution to the majority of the eastern United States was caused by attackers stealing a ...
With Single Factor Authentication You’re One Step Away from Being the Next Colonial Pipeline
Security is only as strong as your weakest link. And, as the bad actors know, that weak link is often... The post With Single Factor Authentication You’re One Step Away from Being ...
Bell Labs, the Colonial Pipeline and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
A simple technology invented by Bell Labs over 20 years ago (and widely used today) could have prevented the Colonial Pipeline attack. In 1880, the French government awarded Alexander Graham Bell roughly ...
Lessons from the Colonial Pipeline Breach
One of the largest, most economically devastating ransomware attacks occurred less than a month ago, and details of the attack are starting to become clearer. So what was the catalyst for this ...
DOJ Recovers $2.3M in Bitcoin Ransom Paid by Colonial Pipeline
Investigators recovered $2.3 million in bitcoin paid by the Colonial Pipeline Company to DarkSide following a ransomware attack in early May. On June 7, the Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed that law ...
Malicious Life Podcast: Inside the DarkSide Colonial Pipeline Attack
On Friday, May 7th, 2021, Colonial Pipeline suffered a cyberattack that forced the company to shut down its operations. As a result, gasoline outages were reported across the U.S. East Coast ...
Justice Dept. Claws Back $2.3M Paid by Colonial Pipeline to Ransomware Gang
The U.S. Department of Justice said today it has recovered $2.3 million worth of Bitcoin that Colonial Pipeline paid to ransomware extortionists last month. The funds had been sent to DarkSide, a ...
