America’s enemies are increasingly targeting critical infrastructure with cyber attacks, a top investigative security journalist says.
Attackers still see an upside in going after critical infrastructure, she said.
But protections for much of the area have become more complicated without improving security.
The Colonial Pipeline hack is a prime example of the latter development, Zetter said.
The company, however, wasn’t prepared for such an event.
“The signs were there if Colonial Pipeline had looked,” she said.
In 2020, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a report warning of ransomware attacks specifically against pipelines.
The news sparked panic buying and drove up prices for consumers, though there was no shortage.
Security experts have long called for voting machines to include tamper-proof redundancies, such as printouts.
