Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

Fitch Ratings is warning that cyberattacks could pose a risk to water and sewer utilities potentially impacting their ability to repay debt. It is one of the three nationally recognized statistical rating organizations (NRSRO) designated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 1975. Fitch Ratings Inc.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2021

Threat actors in January attempted to poison the water at a US facility, a circumstance that highlights the importance of cybersecurity for water and wastewater utilities. The news that a threat actor in January attempted to poison the water at a facility in the U.S. “On Jan. “On Jan. It didn’t seem hard.”

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

Aging infrastructure in the United States is not confined to crumbling roads and bridges. Recent events have shown that connected devices in our pipelines, water treatment facilities and power grids are also vulnerable to exploitation. The sorry state of cybersecurity in U.S. But that’s beside the point.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

National Critical Infrastructure Under Attack: Clop Ransomware. water supplier suffered disrupted essential services within their corporate IT systems. This is another NCI nation-state ransomware attack. water supplier to experience a disturbance in its corporate IT systems. water company.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

It’s a trend that is clearly continuing into the new year ( ‘Dangerous Stuff’: Hackers Tried to Poison Water Supply of Florida Town ). The post Industrial Control Systems: The New Target of Malware appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Further, language of the bill states grants will be given as the CISA Director deems appropriate. State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program (Sec. 40124): $250 million will be dispersed between 2022 and 2026 to states to update technology. Enhanced Grid Security (Sec. billion for electric vehicles.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 30, 2022

DOJ Indictment Links Russian Nationals to Supply Chain Attacks. Supply chain attacks have been around for years as the DOJ’s August 26, 2021 indictment shows. What the supply chain hackers did. What the supply chain hackers did. brooke.crothers. Wed, 03/30/2022 - 16:55. During the Dragonfly 2.0

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Today’s columnist, Andrea Carcano of Nozomi Networks, points out that the attempted attack at the water facility November 5 in Oldsmar, Fla., Carcano offers five takeaways security teams can put to work. Attackers aren’t going away, so we need to defend against remote access and supply-chain risks for the foreseeable future.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

According to The Hill , the funds will go toward securing critical infrastructure against attacks, helping vulnerable organizations defend themselves and providing funding for a key federal cyber office, among other initiatives. Back in August, the U.S. Senate passed the bill, which included $1.9 billion for cybersecurity initiatives.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Today’s columnist, Andrea Carcano of Nozomi Networks, points out that the attempted attack at the water facility February 5 in Oldsmar, Fla., Carcano offers five takeaways security teams can put to work. Attackers aren’t going away, so we need to defend against remote access and supply-chain risks for the foreseeable future.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 28, 2022

What further compounds an already complex architectural and security landscape is the fact that critical infrastructure industries in various countries tend to be either partially or fully government controlled; with many providing “essential services” such as Healthcare, Water, Power, Emergency Services and Food production.

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The Security Ledger

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The post Episode 204: Josh Corman of CISA on securing the Vaccine Supply Chain appeared first. Incidents like the Solar Winds hack have focused our attention on the threat posed by nation states like Russia and China , as they look to steal sensitive government and private sector secrets. Read the whole entry. »

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 301 appeared first on Security Affairs. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! If you want to also receive for free the international press subscribe here.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2022

While the Russia-Ukraine cyber conflict goes on, nation-state actors, crooks, and hacktivists continue to pose critical infrastructure at risk. “State-sponsored attackers, Advanced Persistence Threat (APT) groups and numerous hackers’ communities have been actively targeting the critical infrastructure of their enemy country. .

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 3, 2024

These measures encompass incident management, strengthening supply chain security, enhancing network security, improving access control, and implementing encryption strategies. Review existing security measures, update security policies, and strategize for NIS2 compliance. Who does NIS2 apply to?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2022

“The Department of Justice unsealed two indictments today charging four defendants, all Russian nationals who worked for the Russian government, with attempting, supporting and conducting computer intrusions that together, in two separate conspiracies, targeted the global energy sector between 2012 and 2018.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The European Union enacted the Network and Information System (NIS) regulation in July 2016 with the intention of ensuring a specific level of security for networks and information systems belonging to critical and sensitive infrastructures in EU member states. As a result, security in the public and private sectors became fragmented.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 28, 2022

Peter Fletcher has been appointed vice president – information security officer of San Jose Water Co., SJW Group’s transformation into a multistate water and wastewater company with operations in California, Connecticut, Maine and Texas has added to the complexity of accounting and financial reporting.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

Cloud-based managed services are increasingly popular among application developers, but can be maliciously exploited if not properly secured.(Sean But if dev teams are not careful, experts warn, they could be maliciously exploited to perpetrate watering-hole and supply chain attacks like the one that impacted SolarWinds.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

As if cybersecurity weren’t already a red-letter issue, the United States and, most likely, its allies–in other words, the global economic community–are in Iran’s cyber sites, a major player in cyber warfare and politically divisive disinformation campaigns. It could target your employees, not your company.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

Arun Vishwanath from his office in Buffalo, New York and discuss some of the recent high-profile security breaches and some of the urgent cyber security threats faced by governments and businesses. And attacks have continued, unabated, even as the security community has being trying to fix systems after the fact.

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SC Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

The Sea-based X-Band Radar (SBX) transits the waters of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. Smaller companies make up a critical component of a very complex defense industrial supply chain. Smaller companies make up a critical component of a very complex defense industrial supply chain.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Postal Service, the credit bureaus or the Social Security Administration, it’s a good idea to do so for several reasons. Adding multi-factor authentication (MFA) at these various providers (where available) and/or establishing a customer-specific personal identification number (PIN) also can help secure online access.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 5, 2021

The company also noted in its report that ShadowPad is shared among other state-backed threat actor groups who are affiliated with both the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). This de-facto boundary called the Line of Actual Control (LAC) sits in the Himalayan region.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Those predictions form Kaspersky Security Bulletin (KSB), an annual project lead by Kaspersky experts. Dr.Mohamed Al Kuwaiti (UAE Cyber Security Council) , and public organizations: Kubo Ma? Vladimir Dashchenko , Security Evangelist, Kaspersky. The contributors include representatives from government institutions: H.E.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

This effort began with the 2018 establishment of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) , a Department of Homeland Security division. The CISA ‘s Joint Cyber Defense Collective (JCDC) initiative is going to build operation plans for protecting and responding to cyber threats.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Among them were: attacks against critical infrastructure, increasing regulation, the need for empathy from security pros, and – naturally – AI. The first keynote speaker was Viktor Zhora, Deputy Chairman at Ukraine’s State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection. But he left a stark warning to everyone in the room.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) has issued a warning to all organizations in the United States, titled Shields Up , recommending an adoption of " heightened posture when it comes to cybersecurity" and making sure to protect their most critical assets. Take steps to quickly detect a potential intrusion.".

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SC Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

An attempt to poison the Oldsmar, Florida water supply by hijacking a remote access system demonstrates the critical threat tied to failure to properly secure operational technology. According to Dragos, the purpose of the malware distributed in the watering-hole attack appears to be to collect data on victims (e.g.

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Appknox

JUNE 23, 2022

The risks to the privacy of Australian customers are at an all-time high, as the nation has reported the highest percentage of mobile threats globally, standing at 26.9%. All attacks have one common factor: a lack of awareness and a false sense of security in the human mind. Australian Mobile Cybersecurity in 2022.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Ukraine’s security service SBU announced to have blocked a cyber attack launched by Russian intelligence aimed at breaching information and telecommunications systems used by the country’s judiciary. Ukraine is accusing Russian intelligence services of carrying out cyberattacks against one of its government organizations.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 30, 2021

” No More Ransom was founded in 2016 by the Dutch National Police, Europol, Intel Security and Kaspersky Lab. As Europol celebrated the fifth anniversary of its anti-ransomware initiative this week, menacing new ransomware threats made it clear that the fight against cyber threats is never-ending.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 18, 2023

On the other end are state-sponsored groups using far more sophisticated tactics—often with long-term, strategic goals in mind. SMBs can be stepping stones to bigger targets—especially if they're in a supply chain or serve larger entities. Cyber criminals come in all shapes and sizes. We have the answer.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2024

The recent Unitronics hack , in which attackers took control over a Pennsylvania water authority and other entities, is a good example. Unitronics systems are exposed to the Internet and a single intrusion caused a ripple effect felt across organizations in multiple states.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

This is the normal cadence the industry expects and although difficult to keep pace, the cybersecurity world is able to tread these waters. Beyond the expected, we must also keep watch for the unpleasant surprises that can severely disrupt the security, trust, and capabilities of our digital world.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Cyberattack Statistics.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2022

Potable water and wastewater management is a top priority for cybersecurity professionals and the Biden administration alike. This is part of National Security Memorandum 5, Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems. Related: Keeping critical systems patched. Decentralized exposures.

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