Gas prices could reach a 3-year high after a cyberattack on America’s largest fuel pipeline. CHARLOTTE — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Monday signed an executive order declaring a State of Emergency in the state due to the temporary shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline. Colonial Pipeline says a cyberattack Read more…
The ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline Co. might have ripple effects that last for weeks or months. The ransomware attack on the East Coast’s biggest fuel pipeline could ripple across the economy for months, experts say, even if fuel starts flowing again soon. Panic buying is already pushing up gasoline prices even before the Read more…
Investigators at the largest fuel pipeline in the US are working to recover from a devastating cyber-attack that cut the flow of oil. The hack on Colonial Pipeline is being seen as one of the most significant attacks on critical national infrastructure in history. The pipeline transports nearly half of the east Read more…
WASHINGTON — The federal government is working with the Georgia-based company that shut down a major pipeline transporting fuel across the East Coast after a ransomware attack, the White House says. The government is planning for various scenarios and working with state and local authorities on measures to mitigate any potential Read more…
The final weeks of a challenging year have proven even more difficult with the recent exposure of the world’s latest serious nation-state cyberattack. This latest cyber-assault is effectively an attack on the United States and its government and other critical institutions, including security firms. It illuminates the ways the cybersecurity Read more…
Microsoft exec says attack is ‘ongoing,’ but company denies report that its products furthered the hack Microsoft Corp. was breached as part of the massive hack that used a backdoor in SolarWinds software, as part of what the tech giant’s president called “effectively an attack on the United States.” Reuters Read more…
Malicious extensions in the news again? No way! Well, yes, unfortunately, but you’re probably not at all surprised and you’re certainly not at all happy about it. In February, Google removed over 500 malicious extensions from the Chrome Web Store which were injection ads into millions of Chrome browsing sessions. Back in Read more…
The scale of a sophisticated cyberattack on the U.S. government that was unearthed this week is much bigger than first anticipated. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said the threat “poses a grave risk to the federal government.” CISA has not said who it thinks is the “advanced persistent Read more…
FireEye is the cybersecurity company of choice for a number of U.S. federal agencies and states and works with the FBI and National Security Agency. By Kevin Collier and Ken Dilanian FireEye, a major U.S. cybersecurity company with extensive government contracts, has been hacked by a foreign country, it said Tuesday. In a Read more…
The Internet can be a scary place: we’re under near constant attack from ransomware and botnets – on work computers, personal devices, even smart home devices like thermostats and baby monitors. If you’re security conscious, you might be thinking about setting up a Virtual Private Network (VPN) or a proxy Read more…