Collaborate Disseminate
The UK’s National Health Service, one of the highest-profile victims of last year’s devastating WannaCry ransomware attack, has pledged to phase out fax machines from its trusts by 2020. NHS made headlines in 2017 when its entire fleet of h… Continue reading Star WannaCry victim NHS to ban fax machines by 2020
Genomics England announced it’s sequenced 100K Brits’ genomes… and then had to store them in a military base after multiple hacking attacks. Continue reading Hacker-besieged DNA data tucked away under military care
Industrial facilities cybersecurity is very critical for the national security of every state and comes once more into focus following the recent Honeywell’s Industrial USB Threat Report. With increasing pressure to limit network access to indust… Continue reading USB Threats to Cybersecurity of Industrial Facilities
In this Newsmaker Interview, ‘breach hunter’ Chris Vickery explores a recent spate of breaches from Marriott, USPS and Dell EMC. Continue reading Chris Vickery on the Marriott Breach and a Rash of Recent High-Profile Hacks
The UPnProxy router compromise uncovered earlier in 2018 is now being used to attack computers on networks connected to the same gateways. Continue reading Router attack exploits UPnP and NSA malware to target PCs
When he’s not helping clients stay on top of cloud security, Andi Hudson is reaching out to schools to spread awareness about careers in technology and the importance of data privacy.
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Cyberattackers are successfully evading detection on Windows computers by abusing legitimate admin tools that come pre-installed with the operating system. Continue reading Cybercriminal techniques – Sophoslabs 2019 Threat Report
Why manufacturing and logistics are especially challenged. Continue reading Managing the Risk of IT-OT Convergence
With their ability to carry malware into sensitive environments, USB drives have long been a red flag for industrial facilities. A new study puts hard data behind those concerns and shows how the drives can propagate advanced threats like Stuxnet and Trisis. Of the 50 industrial sites on four continents where Honeywell International analyzed USB usage, 44 percent of sites detected and blocked at least one malicious file. These weren’t just run-of-the-mill files: 15 percent of the threats detected and blocked were infamous malware packages like Stuxnet and Trisis (2 percent each), Mirai (6 percent) and WannaCry (1 percent). About a quarter of the threats blocked could cause “a major disruption to an industrial control environment,” according to Honeywell, an industrial automation giant. The overall volume of USB-based malware found by Honeywell researchers was relatively small, but the types of threats detected were more serious than researchers had anticipated. “It’s […]
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Microsoft will provide security updates until 2023 to help business customers migrate to Windows 10 – if they pay. Continue reading Microsoft extends security patch support for some Windows 7 users