​The Colonial Pipeline Hack: A New Era of Cyberwarfare. By JIM GERAGHTY

 ​The Colonial Pipeline Hack: A New Era of Cyberwarfare. By JIM GERAGHTY

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-colonial-pipeline-hack-a-new-era-of-cyberwarfare/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MJ_20210514&utm_term=Jolt-Smart

Excerpt: Apparently, ransomware attacks are like the latest TikTok dance: rapidly growing in popularity and not easily understood by anyone over the age of 30. You’ve heard about the Colonial Pipeline hack. But you probably didn’t hear that Ireland’s health service shut down its computer systems after being hit with a ransomware attack. DarkSide hit Toshiba Corporation and compromised more than 740 gigabytes of information including passports and other personal information. The Washington, D.C., police just suffered the biggest hack of a police force ever, exposing “hundreds of police officer disciplinary files and intelligence reports that include feeds from other agencies, including the FBI and Secret Service.” The city government of Gary, Ind., has to restore and rebuild all of its servers after they were attacked. And that’s just in the past 24 hours or so.