The Colonial Pipeline attack should be a wake-up call for hardening our cyber defenses

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The Biden administration recently issued an emergency declaration to lift regulations on drivers carrying fuel in 17 states after Russian cybercrime hacking group DarkSide launched a cyber attack on Colonial Pipeline. The largest fuel pipeline in the U.S., Colonial Pipeline was forced to shut down its networks entirely.
The FBI confirmed DarkSide ransomware was responsible for compromising Colonial Pipeline’s operations. DarkSide hacked into the network, encrypted files to deny Colonial Pipeline access, and extorted the company with a reported $5 million bitcoin payment to restore service. 
Its critical and highly vulnerable infrastructure under attack, the U.S. was in an incident-response phase to the right of boom. Facing gas shortages and price increases, our citizens should expect alarm bells to be ringing in the White House, which should consider this attack — even if by now we have gotten past the immediate repercussions — a siren call to harden our defenses, lest we be attacked even more viciously in the future.

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