Michael Lines is working with ISMG to promote awareness of the need for cyber risk management, and the CyberEdBoard is posting draft chapters from his upcoming book, "Heuristic Risk Management: Be Aware, Get Prepared, Defend Yourself." This chapter - the last in the series - is titled "Building an Effective Defense."
The OT market is growing. As a result, the industry is facing a lack of trained professionals with the techniques to perform this function. Therefore, companies need to find a way to attract and train employees to fill this space, says Andre Gomes, product manager at Nexa Resources.
Nozomi Networks Sales Director Nycholas Szucko discusses the pursuit of cybersecurity education for OT and how digital transformation has brought a huge challenge to the industry. He says we cannot protect what we cannot see. The ideal approach is always to start with the basics, ensuring visibility and taking an...
When contracting for modern MDR services, Lyndon Brown of Pondurance advises prospective customers to ask about more than the managed service and detection. He says they should ask tough questions about response. Brown shares his insights and strategies.
The new Expel Quarterly Threat Report provides even more data on what we’re seeing, detection opportunities, and resilience recs to help protect your organization — now on a quarterly basis.
Novartis says no sensitive information was compromised in an alleged attack involving the drugmaker's data showing up for sale on the dark web. The incident comes as new reports warn of a surge in cyberattacks on healthcare sector entities and the return of Emotet malware.
Undisclosed attackers have likely stolen $1.7 million by deploying Clipminer, a cryptomining and clipboard hijacking malware, on compromised systems, says the Symantec Threat Hunter Team. According to the team, Clipminer is a copycat or an evolved version of cryptomining Trojan KryptoCibule.
The website of the Russian Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities was reportedly hacked and defaced on Sunday. The attacker demands a 1-million-ruble ransom be paid by Tuesday to ensure the security of stolen data. A ministry spokesperson told a state news agency that all data is protected.
Forescout has agreed to purchase startup Cysiv to help OT and IoT customers analyze, detect and respond to threats using cloud-native data analytics. The proposed acquisition will make it easier for customers to mine and cross-reference data that's stored on Forescout's platform.
The U.S. Department of Justice and FBI announced the seizure of three domains after an investigation that found these domains selling stolen personal information and providing access to conduct distributed denial-of-service attacks. The domain includes weleakinfo.to, ipstress.in and ovh-booter.com.
Atlassian has issued a patch for its Confluence workspace collaboration tool, which is being targeted in the wild with a zero-day vulnerability that gives attackers unauthenticated remote code execution privileges. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 10 out of 10 for criticality.
Devo has closed its Series F round and notched a $2 billion valuation to incorporate more capabilities into its SOC via acquisition. The company plans to use the $100 million to buy companies that will provide customers with additional intelligence on top of Devo's data for specific use cases.
Federal authorities have issued advisories about security vulnerabilities identified in several medical device products, including various Illumina Inc. genetic testing and sequencing devices and certain medication dispensing systems and microbiology software products from Becton, Dickinson & Co.
U.S. government agencies have issued a warning to organizations in the country against paying ransom to the Karakurt data extortion group. The threat actor's promises to delete stolen data and not disclose the security incident to the public if its demands are met are false, the agencies say.
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