Update: May 14, 2021 The Colonial Pipeline operations have been partially restored as of now. However it is still unclear when the pipeline will be fully operational. There are reports from sources that a ransom amount was paid to the attackers after which much of the encrypted data could be restored, but the speed of … Read more
Feb 06,2017– The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) released a safety video of its investigation of the June 13, 2013 explosion and fire at the Williams Olefins Plant in Geismar, Louisiana, which killed two workers and injured an additional 167. The deadly explosion and fire occurred when a heat exchanger containing flammable liquid propane violently … Read more
Feb 06, 2017- A major fire broke out at a chemicals manufacturing company, Sterling Auxiliaries Pvt Ltd on 1st of Feb, 2017. The incident reportedly occurred at the site when packing of finished organic chemical material N – Methylmorpholine in drums was being done. The fire spread rapidly enough and a major part of the … Read more
Washington, DC, August 30, 2016 — After the fatal explosion at the Airgas facility in Florida, an investigative team from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is deploying to the scene. The Airgas facility is located next to the Ascend Performance Materials plant in Cantonment, Florida, outside Pensacola. The facility has a chemical manufacturing plant … Read more
Aug 30, 2016– ICS-CERT has informed that a new Whitepaper has been released by the National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center that details how Windows Management Instrumentation can be used by attackers to perform system reconnaissance,antivirus and virtual machine (VM) detection, code execution, lateral movement, persistence, and data theft. This whitepaper will show how to … Read more
