Pitt cyber expert says critical U.S. infrastructure is vulnerable
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In this Sept. 20, 2016 file photo vehicles are seen near Colonial Pipeline in Helena, Ala. A major pipeline that transports fuels along the East Coast says it had to stop operations because it was the victim of a cyberattack. Colonial Pipeline said in a statement late Friday that it “took certain systems offline to contain the threat, which has temporarily halted all pipeline operations, and affected some of our IT systems.”
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The Colonial Pipeline has restarted operations after a ransomware attack forced it to shut down. It’s just one of the attacks on critical U.S. infrastructure in recent months.
Last January, the U.S. government identified Russia as the source of a massive, ongoing cyber attack that compromised government and private sector systems across the country.
In this Tribune-Review video interview Chris Deluzio, policy director for the University of Pittsburgh’s Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security discusses America’s cyber infrastructure vulnerability and what needs to happen to take care of the problem.