Collaborate Disseminate
The Reading Municipal Light Department (RMLD), an electric utility in Massachusetts, informed customers on Monday that its systems were targeted last week in a ransomware attack.
RMLD says it serves over 68,000 residents in the towns of Reading, North … Continue reading Massachusetts Electric Utility Hit by Ransomware
Researchers from Cisco’s Talos intelligence and research group have identified a dozen vulnerabilities in a wireless networking device made by Taiwan-based industrial networking, computing and automation solutions provider Moxa.
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The cost of poorly protected device identities has long been assumed, but not proven, to be large. Specification of the part played by SSH abuse within a breach report is rare despite compromised machine identities being used by attackers to hide their… Continue reading Mismanagement of Device Identities Could Cost Businesses Billions: Report
Honeywell has released patches for a couple of potentially serious vulnerabilities affecting a web server used by its Notifier fire alarm systems.
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More than 400 vulnerabilities affecting industrial control systems (ICS) were disclosed in 2019 and over a quarter of them had no patches when their existence was made public, according to a report published on Thursday by industrial cybersecurity firm… Continue reading Over 400 ICS Vulnerabilities Disclosed in 2019: Report
Researchers Find Internet-Exposed, Poorly Protected Out of Band Consoles Commonly Used in Maritime and Oil & Gas Industries
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A ransomware infection at a natural gas compression facility in the United States resulted in a two-day operational shutdown of an entire pipeline asset, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) reve… Continue reading Operations at U.S. Natural Gas Facilities Disrupted by Ransomware Attack
Many upstream oil and gas organizations invested in cybersecurity last year in an effort to improve their threat detection and prevention capabilities, according to a survey conducted by professional services company Accenture.
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A serious vulnerability found in the Profinet industrial communication protocol exposes devices from Siemens, Moxa and possibly other vendors to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
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Continue reading Profinet Vulnerability Exposes Siemens, Moxa Devices to DoS Attacks
Siemens’ Patch Tuesday updates for February 2020 address serious denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities in several of the company’s products.
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Continue reading Siemens Patches Serious DoS Vulnerabilities in Several Products