{"id":6576,"date":"2021-06-09T08:45:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T12:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6576"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:59:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:59:09","slug":"one-password-gave-hackers-access-to-colonial-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/one-password-gave-hackers-access-to-colonial-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"One Password Gave Hackers Access To Colonial Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joseph Blount, chief executive of Colonial Pipeline, told the U.S. Senate committee that the malware gang responsible for last month&#8217;s cyberattack on the company was able to gain access to the company&#8217;s systems by stealing a single password.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that the attack occurred using a legacy VPN system that did not have multifactor authentication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Security experts described the use of a one-factor login system as a sign of poor cybersecurity &#8220;hygiene&#8221; instead, they recommend two-factor authentication, which requires a secondary measure, some of which involves a mobile text or hardware token.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-congress-colonial-co\/one-password-allowed-hackers-to-disrupt-colonial-pipeline-ceo-tells-senators-idUSKCN2DK1PQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEO of Colonial Pipeline says that the malware gang gained access to hack the system with just one password. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6576"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6604,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6576\/revisions\/6604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}