The Predatory Sparrow hacking group recently claimed to have triggered fires in multiple state-run Iranian steel foundries via hack attacks. Clearly, industrial cybersecurity remains essential. But are the attacks a sign of much more to come or more of a politically motivated proof of concept?
Chaim Mazal, discusses the issues affecting CISOs, including how increased market share leads to increased problems and how having uniform, automated controls can provide security and enforce compliance.
Recorded Future has purchased malware analysis startup Hatching to give its clients better visibility into active campaigns in the wild. Data gathered by Hatching's malware sandboxing tool will benefit both companies, providing clients with a view of malware trends, targets and sources.
Tasked with heading cybersecurity in the recently created U.K. Department for International Trade, Don Gibson discusses the opportunities and challenges of building a security program from scratch, including the initial pushback he received and his efforts to win "hearts and minds."
The government of Puerto Rico announced an investment of $7.6 million toward strengthening cybersecurity on the island. The island has undergone a string a embarrassing cybersecurity incidents, including a phishing incident that stole $2.6 million of taxpayer dollars.
A federal contractor that makes rocket propulsion systems will pay $9 million to settle allegations from a former executive that it misled the U.S. government over the state of its cybersecurity defenses even after it suffered nation-state hacks. Aerojet Rocketdyne is not admitting any liability.
It's not the emerging technology or the increasingly complex threat landscape. Instead, people and process are what prove to be consistently the most challenging parts of the job for Caleb Sima, chief security officer at Robinhood.
Please don't pay ransoms, authorities continue to urge. Britain's lead cyber agency and privacy watchdog are now making that appeal directly to legal advisers, warning them that paying a ransom offers no data protection upsides and won't lessen any fine they might face.
Ransomware attackers executing double-extortion schemes very carefully choose which data to steal and leak based on victims' economic sector, says Erick Galinkin, artificial intelligence researcher at security firm Rapid7. He discusses the latest ransomware data theft trends.
Crema Finance has published its compensation and recovery plans following last week's $8.8 million hack on the Solana blockchain-powered concentrated liquidity protocol. The hacker has returned the stolen funds in exchange for a bounty offered by the company.
A federal grand jury indicted a 38-year-old Florida man for allegedly selling more than $1 billion worth of counterfeit Cisco network equipment to customers worldwide, including hospitals, schools, government agencies and the military, as "new and genuine Cisco products," the indictment says.
The Biden administration continues to react to the Supreme Court's overturn of precedent guaranteeing a constitutional right to abortion, issuing Friday an executive order that includes provisions to help safeguard the privacy of patients' data.
Coalition has secured $250 million on a $5 billion valuation to grow in the United Kingdom and accelerate its executive risk coverage business. The money will allow Coalition to push beyond the United States and Canada into the U.K. by the end of 2022 and cover additional executive risk segments.
Monsoon season in India can result in extreme rainfall but a ransomware attack in the southwestern state of Goa is preventing state authorities from obtaining data from flood monitors located on major rivers. The attack appears to have been made with a variant of Phobos ransomware.
The "deliberate actions" of a now-fired senior engineer at Customer.io put at risk email addresses of six client companies, including NFT marketplace OpenSea. The email delivery vendor did not specify how many individuals are now at elevated risk of phishing attacks.
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