Articles Tagged with ''cyber security''

As the United States continues to face attacks across critical sectors — energy and infrastructure, healthcare, and operational technology (OT) — a cultural shift in cybersecurity is taking place.  

Increased reliance on automation and new technologies to assist with meter reading, leak detection and other operational goals have opened a host of attack surfaces. Given the ever-evolving and multi-faceted threat landscape, sharing and collaboration are essential to water and wastewater security and resilience.

Operation GhostShell, a highly targeted cyber espionage campaign, attacks the aerospace and telecommunications industries mainly in the Middle East, with additional victims in the U.S., Russia and Europe. 

The “Ransom Disclosure Act would require ransomware victims to disclose ransom payments within 48 hours of payment — including the amount of ransom demanded and paid the type of currency used for payment of the ransom, and any known information about the entity demanding the ransom.

Despite the flurry of cyberattacks, an Untangle report finds that SMBs are expanding and embracing new work environments and investing in and investigating new technologies to secure their business.

GridEx has grown to be the largest distributed play exercise of its kind in North America, serving as a critical benchmark that maximizes the ability of organizations to coordinate with neighboring utilities and reliability coordinators to effectively exercise and address grid reliability issues.

By understanding each of the bad actors, federal agencies, law enforcement and first responders — often victims of cyberhacktivism — can better prepare for, and prevent, cyberattacks from happening. Here are a few basic steps every public safety agency can take. 

Twitch has been hit by a massive leak after an anonymous hacker posted a torrent file containing a vast amount of data for the public to access.

Cyentia Institute and RiskRecon released research that quantifies how a multi-party data breach impacts many other organizations in today’s interconnected digital world. 

While researching a misconfiguration in the popular workflow platform Apache Airflow, Intezer discovered several unprotected instances. These unsecured instances expose companies’ sensitive information across various industries.