Colonial Pipeline transports more than 2.5 million barrels of fuel every day. Photo / APIt took just two hours for cyber criminals to steal almost 100 gigabytes of data from one of the biggest energy pipelines in the US. Oil storage tanks owned by the Colonial Pipeline Company. Photo / AP"If this were a nation state attack it would be incredibly dangerous," says Alan Woodward, a cyber security expert at the University of Surrey. Photo / APLast week, AXA, the insurance provider, announced that it would stop writing cyber insurance policies in France that reimburse ransoms paid to cyber criminals.

Source: New Zealand Herald May 11, 2021 01:49 UTC