Cybersecurity

Social Media Buzz: Pipeline Hack, China Rocket, Musk Hosts SNL

A police officer stands guard inside the gate to the Colonial Pipeline Co. Pelham junction and tank farm in Pelham, Alabama.

Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg
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Colonial Pipeline is working to restore operations after a cyber-attack prompted the company to take its systems offline, threatening the supply of refined petroleum products to gas stations in major cities on the U.S. eastern seaboard.

A falling Chinese rocket probably won’t cause any damage when it returns to Earth, the country’s foreign ministry said, in an attempt counter U.S. concerns about the spacecraft’s uncontrolled re-entry.