[co-author: Tawanna Lee] On May 12, 2021, President Biden issued the long-expected Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (“EO” or “Order”). The EO comes amidst a series of high-profile cyber-attacks on the Nation and its critical infrastructure, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) supply chain providers, and federal contractors, adding a heightened sense of urgency…
A British trade union is demanding an apology from the West Midlands Trains rail company for running a phishing readiness test disguised as a bonus payment reward for staff that worked through the Covid-19 pandemic. The Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA) published the text of the phishing email, which was made to look like it…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service Company Says It Will Take Several Days to Restore Supply Chain Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • May 12, 2021 Photo: Pete D via Flickr/CC Colonial Pipeline Co. announced Wednesday that it had restarted its operations following a ransomware attack last Friday that forced the company to…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service Company Says It Will Take Several Days to Restore Supply Chain Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • May 12, 2021 Photo: Pete D via Flickr/CC Colonial Pipeline Co. announced Wednesday that it had restarted its operations following a ransomware attack last Friday that forced the company to…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service Company Says It Will Take Several Days to Restore Supply Chain Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • May 12, 2021 Photo: Pete D via Flickr/CC Colonial Pipeline Co. announced Wednesday that it had restarted its operations following a ransomware attack last Friday that forced the company to…
Violence in the Israel-Gaza conflict was instigated by Hamas, a global Jewish advocacy group which supports Israel has said. The American Jewish Committee spokesman Avi Mayer told BBC World News: “It is Hamas that has instigated this violence weeks ago and just this past weekend called on Palestinians in Jerusalem to acquire knives and behead…
Hamas is co-operating with international mediators to achieve a ceasefire and calm, a spokesperson for the Islamist militant group which runs Gaza has said. Bassem Naeem told BBC World News: “The key is very simple, to withdraw the security forces from the al-Aqsa compound and to stop ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people from Sheikh Jarrah.”…
Cybersecurity Biden signs much-anticipated cybersecurity executive order By Justin Katz May 12, 2021 President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed his long-awaited executive order designed to confront the myriad of cybersecurity challenges facing the country — ranging from the supply chain attack that compromised nine federal agencies to ransomware that ultimately shut down…
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Colonial Pipeline began to slowly restart the nation’s largest fuel pipeline network on Wednesday (May 12) after a ransomware attack shut the line, triggering fuel shortages and panic buying in the south-eastern United States. It will take several days for the 5,500 mile (8,850km) pipeline to return to normal operations, Colonial said,…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service Company Says It Will Take Several Days for Supply Chain to Return to Normal Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • May 12, 2021 Source: Flickr Colonial Pipeline Co. announced Wednesday that the company had restarted its operations following a ransomware attack last Friday that had forced the…
