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Amid tight security, the detained former leader of the Democratic Party, Wu Chi-wai, was finally allowed to attend the funeral of his father on Saturday morning. The former lawmaker, who has been in custody for more than four months, stepped out of a police van and was walked to the funeral parlour by a handful…
The attack highlights how ransomware and other cyberattacks are increasingly a threat to real-world infrastructure.
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A major U.S. fuel pipeline running from Texas to New York has been taken offline by its operator because of an apparent cyberattack.The big picture: Colonial Pipeline “carries 45 percent of the East Coast’s fuel supplies,” the N.Y. Times reports. “Col…
Assault on Colonial Pipeline underscores vulnerabilities in critical US infrastructure.
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NEW YORK — Top U.S. fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline has shut its entire network after a cyber attack, the company said in a statement on Friday. Colonial’s network supplies fuel from U.S refiners on the Gulf Coast to the populous eastern and southern United States. The company transports 2.5 million barrels per day of…
NEW YORK — The malicious software used in a cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline, the top U.S. products pipeline operator, was ransomware, a type of malware that is designed to lock down systems by encrypting data and demanding payment to regain access, two cybersecurity industry sources said. The attack resulted in Colonial Pipeline shutting its entire…
