Colonial Pipeline System Had Less Security than your iPhone – ryan

Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount Testifies During A Senate Hearing.
Photo: Graeme Jennings/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK

Last Month, A GROUP OF CRIMINAL HACKERS KNOWN AS DARKSIDE LAUNCHED A RANSOMWARE ATTACK THAT PROMPED THE SIX DAY SHUTDOCK OF THE COUNTRY’ Widespread Gasoline Shortages. On Tuesday, Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount TESTIFIED DIFT A SENATE PANEL About the Company’s Cyberdefenses and Revealed a Key Flaw.

BLOUNT SAID The Hacker Gang Broke Into Colonial Pipeline Through an Account in a Virtual Private Network “That Was Not Innded to Be In Use.” That vpn Account didn’t use Multifactor Authentication, an Additional Layer of Protection Mary Companies on Employe Accounts. (It ‘Common on Consumer Accounts, Too, in Case You Aren’t For Some Reasong it.) Absent Multifactor Authentication, It Just Takes Cracking a Password to Log in – THOUG BLONT SAID COLONIAL’S WAS COMPLICATED: Password. ” After May’s Attack, The Department of Homeland Security ISSUED ITS INAUGURAL Cybersecurity Regulations for the pipeline sector.

For the first time, the public heard a detailed Timeline of the Attack. Shortly before 5 am on May 7, Russian-Based hackers Infiltrate Colonial’s Computer Network USING MALICIOUS SOFTWARE AND DEMANDED MORE THAN $ 4 Million in Ransom. Almost immediately, The Decision was made to shut down the entity pipeline. “At Approximately 5:55 AM, Employees Begin the Shutdown Process,” Blount Said in Prepared RemarksAccounting to CNBC. “By 6:10 AM, They Confirmed that All 5,500 Miles of Pipelines Had Been Shut Down.”

To regain access to it Computer Systems, The Pipeline Giant Paid the Ransom Amout in Cryptocurrencies on May 8. Affairs commitee on tuesday, a day after the department of Justice and a recently Created digital-extting taskforce touted the recovery of the ransom, about $ 2.3 million, Collected by hackers. “It was the hardest decision in my 39 years in the Energy industry.”

When As Squan Where the Pipeline is in Terms of Its Restoration Process, Blount Said Its A Work In Progress. “This Week, We’re Bringing Back Online Seven Finance Systems That We Haven Had Since The Morning of May 7.” BLONT IS Expective to Testify Again before the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday.