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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Cyber Attack of the Week 05 – Cyber Security Firm Attacked by Ransomware

  It appears that not even cyber security firms are safe from ransomware attacks…     Welcome back everyone for another cyber attack of the week! For this article, I wanted to steer clear of everything COVID-19 related. Honestly, I need a change of pace from articles surrounding the virus. (And I think you might need a break as well.) So, what better than an article about a ransomware attack on a cyber security firm?!   Chubb Insurance To begin, the cyber security insurance firm, Chubb, faced an attack from The Maze Team recently.  Chubb is “a global provider of insurance products covering property and casualty, accident and health, reinsurance,… Read More

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