Over the weekend, a cyberattack by the Russia-based ransomware gang DarkSide managed to hamstring America’s largest oil pipeline, Colonial, threatening to choke off significant energy
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Leaked Apple Documents Inadvertently Helped the Right-to-Repair Movement
Cyberattacks are rarely useful to anybody except cyber-attackers, but a recent ransomware incident has had some unexpected upsides for those in the right-to-repair community, new
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Hackers who shut down pipeline: We don’t want to cause “problems for society”
Enlarge / Problems with Colonial Pipeline’s distribution system tend to lead to gasoline runs and price increases across the US Southeast and Eastern seaboard. In
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Colonial Pipeline, the Largest Fuel Pipeline in the U.S., Has Shut Down Over a Ransomware Attack
If you live on the East Coast and see fuel prices go up soon, there’s a good chance it’s because of the cyberattack that forced
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Ransomware forced a major U.S. fuel pipeline to shut down
From hospitals, to ports, to kindergartens, to even golfers, ransomware operators have never exactly discriminated when it came to their potential victims. And as of
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Hackers Leak Data on D.C. Cops as Part of Extortion Scheme
In an attempt to extort some unknown amount of money out of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, hackers with the Babuk ransomware gang have leaked
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