Archive:June 3, 2021

Hack on American Colonial Pipeline Company highlights the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to attack

Jun 03 2021

By Cameron Abbott, Warwick Andersen, Rob Pulham and Jacqueline Patishman

On 7 May, the American Colonial Pipeline Company (Colonial Pipeline) network, which operates the largest fuel pipeline in the US, was shut-down by a cyber-attack for several days causing fuel shortages, the highest fuel prices in years and the declaration of a state of emergency in four US states.

Russia got hacked – ironic right?

Jun 03 2021

By Cameron Abbott, Rob Pulham and Jacqueline Patishman

In mid-May, the Russian government (quietly) published a report revealing that foreign hackers had successfully compromised the Russian Government’s cyber systems. The report suggests that sophisticated hackers were pursuing the interests of a foreign state or that they were backed by a particular state but makes no statement as to who may have been behind it.