Does Colonial's proactive pipeline shutdown illustrate a new cybersecurity threat to utilities?
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First published on Dive Brief: Colonial Pipeline, the largest refined products pipeline in the U.S. and a major supplier of gasoline and jet fuel to the East Coast and a number of southern states, shut down after a ransomware attack Friday, the company said in a statement Saturday. Colonial Pipeline retained FireEye/Mandiant to manage the investigation, according to a spokesperson from the cybersecurity company. DarkSide ransomware is responsible for the compromise, the FBI confirmed in a statement to Cybersecurity Dive Monday. By Sunday, the company restored some smaller, lateral lines be...
First published on Dive Brief: Colonial Pipeline, the largest refined products pipeline in the U.S. and a major supplier of gasoline and jet fuel to the East Coast and a number of southern states, shut down after a ransomware attack Friday, the company said in a statement Saturday. Colonial Pipeline retained FireEye/Mandiant to manage the investigation, according to a spokesperson from the cybersecurity company. DarkSide ransomware is responsible for the compromise, the FBI confirmed in a statement to Cybersecurity Dive Monday. By Sunday, the company restored some smaller, lateral lines betw...
Dive Brief: DSW's e-commerce site lost access to store inventories when a software vendor suffered a ransomware attack during the last two weeks of Q3, Roger Rawlins, CEO of the retailer's parent company Designer Brands, said on a Wednesday earnings call. "We effectively lost a portion of our digital sales capabilities for two weeks during our crucial September selling season," Rawlins said. The roughly 13 million units in stores were not visible to customers on the DSW website when the vendor was forced to temporarily shut down. The shutdown brought DSW's available visible assortment from 13...