{"id":5545,"date":"2021-07-07T01:06:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T01:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5545"},"modified":"2021-07-07T01:06:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T01:06:55","slug":"how-a-major-oil-pipeline-got-held-for-ransom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5545","title":{"rendered":"How a major oil pipeline got held for ransom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;the company was likely breached through a leaked password to an old account that had access to the virtual private network (VPN) used to remotely access the company\u2019s servers. The account reportedly didn\u2019t have\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/22419794\/authenticator-apps-and-you-authy-google-authenticator\" target=\"_blank\">multifactor authentication<\/a>, so the hackers only needed to know the username and the password to gain access to the largest petroleum pipeline in the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/22428774\/ransomeware-pipeline-colonial-darkside-gas-prices\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/22428774\/ransomeware-pipeline-colonial-darkside-gas-prices<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;the company was likely breached through a leaked password to an old account that had access to the virtual private network (VPN) used to remotely access the company\u2019s servers. The account reportedly didn\u2019t have multifactor authentication, so the hackers only needed to know the username and the password to gain access to the largest petroleum pipeline in the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[456,457,1247,576],"class_list":["post-5545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-hacking","tag-hacks","tag-infrastructure","tag-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5546,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions\/5546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}