WATCH: House Homeland Security Committee holds hearing on cyber threats with Colonial Pipeline
Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount will testify on Wednesday before the House Committee on Homeland Security to discuss the May 7 cyberattack on the oil company.
WATCH: U.S. has recovered ransom payment made after pipeline hack
The operation to recover the cryptocurrency from the Russia-based hacker group is the first undertaken by a specialized ransomware task force created by the Biden administration Justice Department.
U.S. pipelines ordered to increase cyber defenses after hack
U.S. pipeline operators will be required for the first time to conduct a cybersecurity assessment under a Biden administration directive in response to the ransomware hack that disrupted gas supplies in several states this month.
Here’s how much your personal information is worth to cybercriminals – and what they do with it
A thriving black market for stolen personal data makes millions of people vulnerable to spies, spammers, scammers and hackers.
A cyberattack left one of the country’s largest pipelines stalled, driving Americans into a panic to buy gasoline.
The pipeline, operated by Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline, carries gasoline and other fuel from Texas to the Northeast.
A prominent cybersecurity firm says suspected state-backed Chinese hackers exploited widely used networking devices to spy for months on dozens of high-value government, defense industry and financial sector targets in the U.S. and Europe.
President Joe Biden has said that dealing with “Russian recklessness and hacking into computer networks in the United States and across Europe and the world has become critical to protecting our collective security.”…
U.S. officials are scrambling to reinforce the nation’s cyber defenses following a sweeping hack that may have exposed government and corporate secrets to Russia.
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