Go back a few years, heck make it a decade, and you'll find nearly the same darn headline in some variation: "Terrorist seeking to carry our cyberattacks" "Al Qaeda plotting major cyberattack" "cyberterrorism the next big threat" In fact, back in 2009 one of the...
I've highlighted and expanded upon a few cases below. Overall the current onshore energy attack cluster continues to be Yemen (note: the pipeline that was hit last week has been repaired...so expect another attack soon) awhile offshore it is the Gulf of Guinea (this is...
Some interesting bits and pieces came out this past week on the cybersecurity - a few that are more general (policy-related and conceptual) and a few others that specifically address the issue of energy information infrastructure systems. Let's get started. 1). DHS...
Few pieces came through my reader this week on Saudi energy infrastructure security. At first they seemed a bit out of the blue as there has not been any recent event there... at least to my knowledge. But it seems something is brewing and perhaps it's linked to the overall...
Well, this is very interesting for those of you interested in things that overlap social media, environmental protest, and corporate responsibility. The following video announces a new (fake) iphone app from Shell oil company called "Live with it" - this provides inhabitants...
Our data gathering process for the Energy Infrastructure Attack Database (EIAD), shows that when energy infrastructure attacks emerge in a country that there is a chance that many others will follow - transforming what was just an isolated incident (that likely caused...
According to Shell, "in 2011 it recorded 237 cases of oil theft from its facilities compared with 187 in 2010" (via Platts). Go back to 2009 when there were 155 reported incidents of crude oil theft from Shell facilities and one sees an upward trend. And, keep in mind...
Reports coming out about 2 energy attacks in 2 different parts of the word (though not unfamiliar territory for such activity). 1).Colombia: the Cano Limon-Covenas oil pipeline, which moves oil from the Arauca region to the port of Covenas, was bombed, disrupting operations...
A few years ago I attended a maritime piracy conference and gave a talk about offshore threats to energy carriers. At that time, the international community was still trying to get a handle on the explosion of piracy coming out of Somalia and one of the main discussions...
