Shadow
05-06-2012, 11:40 AM
A major cyber attack is currently under way aimed squarely at computer networks belonging to US (http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/United+States) natural gas pipeline companies, according to alerts issued to the industry by the US Department of Homeland Security. At least three confidential "amber" alerts – the second most sensitive next to "red" – were issued by DHS beginning March 29, all warning of a "gas pipeline sector cyber intrusion campaign" against multiple pipeline companies. But the wave of cyber attacks, which apparently began four months ago – and may also affect Canadian natural gas pipeline companies – is continuing.
That fact was reaffirmed late Friday in a public, albeit less detailed, "incident response" report from the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT), an arm of DHS based in Idaho Falls (http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Idaho+Falls). It reiterated warnings in the earlier confidential alerts made directly to pipeline companies and some power companies.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47310697/ns/technology_and_science-christian_science_monitor/
That fact was reaffirmed late Friday in a public, albeit less detailed, "incident response" report from the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT), an arm of DHS based in Idaho Falls (http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Idaho+Falls). It reiterated warnings in the earlier confidential alerts made directly to pipeline companies and some power companies.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47310697/ns/technology_and_science-christian_science_monitor/