Two Years After Colonial Pipeline, What Have We Learned?
The second anniversary of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack has come and gone, and while many lessons have been learned and assimilated, there’s still more we can do. Security Boulevard reached out ...
4 Ways to Avoid the Next Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack
May 2022 marked the first anniversary of the largest publicly disclosed cyberattack against critical infrastructure in the U.S.—the attack on the Colonial Pipeline. The devastating attack served as a cautionary tale of ...
TSA Issues Directive to Prevent Another Colonial Pipeline Attack
Following months of pushback from private industry, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reissued a revised version of its cybersecurity directive for oil and natural gas pipeline owners and operators. The directive follows ...
New APT Group Mimic Colonial Pipeline Attackers, Others
Government servers and Russian energy and aviation industries seem to be the primary targets of a new advanced persistent threat (APT) group that has attacked organizations in 10 countries, using the supply ...
Colonial Pipeline Hinted at Critical Infrastructure Threat
The long gas lines, panic buying and price spikes are fading into memory. But the ransomware attack in early May 2021 on the largest fuel pipeline in the U.S. must continue to ...
Colonial Pipeline FAIL: Ransomware Gang Threatens Gas Supplies
The Colonial Pipeline is critical infrastructure—of that there’s no doubt. But ransomware scrotes have crippled it ...
Colonial’s Ransom Payment Indicates Severity of Threats
Last week Joseph Blount, the CEO of Colonial Pipeline, told The Wall Street Journal that he authorized the ransom payment of $4.4. million to the hackers who broke into computer systems and ...
Pipeline Ransomware Shows Dangers of Unsecured Infrastructure
The ransomware attack against the Colonial Pipeline is the latest incident targeting critical infrastructure in the United States with severe potential in terms of business continuity and energy disruption. The May 7 ...
DarkSide Offered Ransomware-as-a-Service Before Pipeline Attack
Colonial Pipeline might be tight-lipped about the vulnerability hackers exploited to launch a ransomware attack that shut down the U.S.’s largest pipeline, but details are emerging about the DarkSide ransomware variant behind ...
Of Pipelines And Cybersecurity
One of the scariest phrases I have ever encountered is “gasoline pipeline” –thousands of miles of three foot diameter pipes buried in the ground for decades carrying billions of gallons of one ...
