David E. Sanger reports: A cyberattack forced the shutdown of one of the largest pipelines in the United States, in what appeared to live a significant attempt to disrupt vulnerable get-up-and-go infrastructure. The pipeline carries refined gasoline and squirt fuel up the orient Coast from tx to New York. The operator of the system, Colonial Pipeline, said in a argument late Friday that it had shut down its 5,500 miles of pipeline, which it says carries 45 percent of the East Coasts fuel supplies, in an travail to contain the transgress on its computer networks. Earlier Friday, there were disruptions along the pipeline, but it was unclear whether that was a direct resultant of the attack, or the companys moves to proactively hold it. Read more on The New York Times.