United States Improves Critical Infrastructure Security

  United States Improves Critical Infrastructure Security by Passing Five Bills The cyber security incident that recently affected Colonial Pipeline showed the extreme need to protect our critical infrastructure.  Ransomware successfully hindered the delivery of fuel to a large portion of the East Coast.  Colonial Pipelines and other critical infrastructure could prevent cyber security incidents with enhanced security that prepares themselves for the imminent attacks.  Finally, the United States House Committee on Homeland Security recently passed five bills to increase cyber defenses for United State organizations and critical infrastructure.   Why Attack Critical Infrastructure? People and organizations not only depend on critical infrastructure, they need the critical infrastructure.  These organizations… Read More

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Hacking Group Stops Oil Pipeline and Breaks 45% of the United States Oil Supply

    Hacking Group Stops Oil Pipeline and Breaks 45% of the United States Oil Supply When you hear about a cyber attack, generally you assume that some sort of IT infrastructure suffered damage.  Your assumptions might include servers, web applications, or even the business processes that those systems support.  However, ransomware disables the largest pipeline in the United States in a recent attack.  This attack goes to show that as cyber attacks evolve, the cyber world can be used to inflict damage on the physical world and its infrastructure.   The Victim On May 7, 2021, the Colonial Pipeline suffered a ransomware attack that brought the pipeline’s operations to… Read More

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