This weekend, the Port of Seattle dealt with an “internet and web systems outage” that impacted flights at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. A cyberattack is suspected.
In a statement, the international airport announced that the outages began on Saturday morning, which stemmed from a “possible cyberattack” at the Port of Seattle.“Earlier this morning, the Port of Seattle experienced certain system outages indicating a possible cyberattack,” authorities said. “The Port isolated critical systems and is in the process of working to restore full service.”On Saturday, as of 8 p.m. ET, 247 flights had been delayed and six had been canceled at the airport, according to FlightAware.The airport noted that it does not have an estimated time for returning to full operational capacity, but is working with authorities and partners to help travelers whose itineraries were impacted by the outage.
The outages occurred barely a month after the July Crowdstrike outage, which knocked out some airlines’ reservation and scheduling systems and canceled thousands of flights across the country.
Meanwhile, oil giant Halliburton has also been hit with a computer system issue reportedly linked to a cyberattack.
A person familiar with the matter told Reuters that Halliburton was hit by a cyberattack that appears to be impacting business operations at the company’s Houston campus and some global networks.Halliburton would neither confirm nor deny to CNN that it is the victim of a cyberattack, but the oilfield services firm did acknowledge an unspecified “issue.”“We are aware of an issue affecting certain company systems and are working diligently to assess the cause and potential impact,” a Halliburton spokesperson said in a statement. “We have activated our pre-planned response plan and are working internally and with leading experts to remediate the issue.”
The company is working with law enforcement during its investigation.
The $23-billion company became aware of the cyber attack on Wednesday, it said in its first securities filing about the breach, adding its “ongoing investigation and response included restoration of its systems and assessment of materiality.”The company also said it had taken certain systems offline to protect them.A spokesperson declined to comment on whether the company had been contacted by the people behind the breach….The company had also asked some staff not to connect to internal networks, the source said.The U.S. Department of Energy said on Thursday the Halliburton cyber incident had not impacted any energy services.
While our nation’s energy services were not disrupted, and airline passengers had to make a few travel adjustments, it’s only a matter of time before a cyberattack hits a little harder.
Perhaps if out security agencies weren’t so focused on social justice persecutions, they might be able to spend a bit more time preventing cyber crime rather than investigating its aftermath.
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