{"id":419400,"date":"2021-06-09T09:28:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T03:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=419400"},"modified":"2021-06-09T09:58:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T04:28:12","slug":"how-just-one-password-allowed-hackers-to-disrupt-oil-supply-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-just-one-password-allowed-hackers-to-disrupt-oil-supply-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"How just one password allowed hackers to disrupt oil supply in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York: The head of Colonial Pipeline told U.S. senators on Tuesday that hackers who launched last month&#8217;s cyber attack against the company and disrupted fuel supplies to the U.S. Southeast were able to get into the system by stealing a single password. <\/p>\n<p>Colonial Pipeline Chief Executive Joseph Blount told a U.S. Senate committee that the attack occurred using a legacy Virtual Private Network (VPN) system that did not have multifactor authentication in place. That means it could be accessed through a password without a second step such as a text message, a common security safeguard in more recent software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York: The head of Colonial Pipeline told U.S. senators on Tuesday that hackers who launched last month&#8217;s cyber attack against the company and disrupted fuel supplies to the U.S. Southeast were able to get into the system by stealing a single password. Colonial Pipeline Chief Executive Joseph Blount told a U.S. Senate committee that the attack occurred using a legacy Virtual Private Network (VPN) system that did not have multifactor authentication in place. That means it could be accessed through a password without a second step such as a text message, a common security safeguard in more recent software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}