Biden administration scrambles to respond to cyberattack on critical pipeline

Biden administration officials worked urgently Monday to ascertain the scope and fallout of a ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, which supplies much of the eastern United States its gasoline -- an incident that laid bare vulnerabilities in the country's aging energy infrastructure.

The White House has already stood up an emergency working group to contend with potential energy supply issues and loosened rules on petroleum shipping on highways. But the broader issue of security gaps in the nation's critical systems -- components of which are decades old -- remains a serious question for the White House, which is finalizing an executive order meant to better respond to cyberattacks.