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Everyone's afraid of breaching it when doing their jobs - even the police The Law Commission, a government law reform body, published a report on search warrants in October 2020 that highlighted police fears about breaching the CMA while investigating online crimes. That report [PDF] recommended reform of the act for three reasons: The first reason accords with the observation made by the Law Society and which we have endorsed elsewhere: it would be beneficial to both the individual subject to a warrant and investigators, to have clarity on the powers available and the extent of them. The s...

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One of the largest cybersecurity attacks on US infrastructure devastated a fuel pipeline and cut oil supplies to much of the East Coast. The ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, the US's largest fuel pipeline, took the company offline and could see petrol prices rise if the situation is not resolved in the next few days. The hacker group responsible, DarkSide, believed to be based in Russia, issued an apology on Monday, saying its goal was not in "creating problems for society" but "to make money". But the disruption has become a geopolitical issue. President Joe Biden said there was n...

According to a Canadian security expert, the ransomware attack on a major U.S. gasoline pipeline should put complacent Canadian citizens and political leaders on high alert to the threat of online attacks against critical infrastructure. “My sense is we are seriously vulnerable, and this [attack] is a major canary in the coal mine,” Christian Leuprecht, a Queen’s University professor and senior fellow in security and defence at the Macdonald Laurier Institute, said in an interview days after the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline Co. When the company learned of the attack on May 7, ...

Photo: Colonial Pipeline Co. After a ransomware incident, Colonial Pipeline Co. says it has restored smaller pipelines that ship fuel to the U.S. East Coast, but its larger ones are still offline as it assesses safety. The company ships millions of gallons per day of fuels such as gasoline, heating oil, jet and diesel from refineries in the South to East Coast destinations. The company says "smaller lateral lines between terminals and delivery points are now operational," according to an update on Sunday. Four main lines, however, still are not functioning. Those lines were voluntarily taken...