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Protecting Oil and Gas Industry Infrastructure: Strategies for Resilience

SecureWorld News

Digital transformation: The integration of IoT, SCADA systems, and advanced analytics has increased operational efficiency but also expanded the attack surface. A report from 2023 revealed that 67% of energy and utility companies faced ransomware attacks, with many incidents exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities.

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Cybersecurity in Aviation: Rising Threats and Modernization Efforts

SecureWorld News

The attack vectors are diverse: fraudulent websites mimicking airline booking portals, phishing campaigns targeting airline staff, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks crippling airport websites malware infiltrating maintenance system, ransomware encrypting critical backend databases, and more.

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Ransomware news headlines trending on Google

CyberSecurity Insiders

North Korea’s Lazarus Group has reportedly designed new ransomware that is being targeted at M1 processors popularly running on Macs and Intel systems. Second is the news related to ransomware named HavanaCrypt that researchers from Cybereason claim to be targeting victims as fake Google software updates.

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Your Brother printer might have a critical security flaw - how to check and what to do next

Zero Day

How to check - and what you can do According to a detailed technical analysis by Rapid7, Brother uses a password generation algorithm during manufacturing that is easily reversible. That means Brother's only remedy is to update its manufacturing line so that new printers ship with non-predictable default passwords.

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How to clear your Android phone cache (and why it makes such a big difference)

Zero Day

The exact steps may vary slightly by manufacturer, but the general process remains the same. If you're an Apple user, here's  how to clear the cache on an iPhone. How to clear cached data from Android apps What you'll need: Any Android device.

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SHARED INTEL: Study shows mismanagement of ‘machine identities’ triggers $52 billion in losses

The Last Watchdog

In one sense, digital transformation is all about machines. Here are excerpts, edited for clarity and length: LW: Can you frame the top challenges businesses face as digital transformation accelerates? Hudson: The world as we once knew it is becoming digitalized. Everything.

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GUEST ESSAY: Lessons learned in 2021 as cloud services, mobility and cybersecurity collided

The Last Watchdog

In fact, the Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report found that “with an unprecedented number of people working remotely, phishing and ransomware attacks increased by 11 percent and 6 percent respectively.” Cybercriminals have taken advantage of security challenges that arise from the new model of remote work and collaboration.

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