{"id":22528,"date":"2020-03-02T21:48:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T05:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22528"},"modified":"2020-03-02T21:48:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T05:48:46","slug":"protect-the-pipelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22528","title":{"rendered":"PROTECT THE PIPELINES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this past month <a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qfvhyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprhmfdhg_xvhdrrhvhtdrshdcpjjv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qfvhyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprhmfdhg_xvhdrrhvhtdrshdcpjjv.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1583293853047000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFhNK3cq6dQHdvRQ2eXCyvmsTcE1Q\">disclosed<\/a>\u00a0a disruptive cyberattack on a U.S. energy facility, raising new concerns about protections for energy providers.<\/p>\n<p>The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a division of DHS, said a ransomware attack hit a &#8220;natural gas compression facility,&#8221; leading to a two-day shutdown for the entire pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>While the agency did not specify the name or location of the facility, an assessment by a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jmvfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqkfbmnfm_xvhdrrhvhtdrshdcpjjv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jmvfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqkfbmnfm_xvhdrrhvhtdrshdcpjjv.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1583293853047000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFDAwtdH-fypluvnYQHEZt8ejURcg\">cybersecurity firm<\/a>\u00a0linked the attack to an alert put out by the U.S. Coast Guard in December about a ransomware intrusion that affected camera and physical access control systems and disrupted the entire corporate IT network at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>But the revelation was more notable for the simple fact that agencies rarely acknowledge such attacks publicly.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you need to know about cyberattacks targeting the energy industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22529,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22528\/revisions\/22529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}