The attack was possible due to several security lapses. Politico reports that the State Department was able to alert Microsoft to the breach thanks to a tripwire alert that an analyst created two years before the attack. The DHS Cyber Safety Review Board plans to review this incident in order...
The growing threat that advanced cybersecurity attacks pose to the world was highlighted by the Colonial Pipeline attack in May 2021. The fuel pipeline operator suffered a ransomware attack launched by the DarkSide hacking group, which led to fuel disruption and mass panic buying across the U.S....
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Based on our investigations into these attacks, as well as the investigations of others, we recently became aware that a vulnerability in Internet Explorer appears to be one of several attack mechanisms that were used in highly sophisticated and targeted attacks against several companies....
The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has disrupted the activities of a China-based hacking group that we call Nickelthat was being using to attack organizations in the United States and 28 other countries around the world.
“We’ve blurred the lines between what is ‘business infrastructure’ and what is ‘personal infrastructure’. The bottom line is the attack surface is just proliferated as a result.” Admiral Rogers was speaking to Darren Thomson, CyberCube’s Head of Cyber Security Strategy. CyberCube is ...
supporting water systems to take these threats seriously. Even if the nightmare worst case scenarios have not happened at scale, the entire sector has to prioritizecybersecurity, just as oil pipelines belatedly did after the successful ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline several years ago ...
A cyber attack is an attack launched from one or more computers against another computer, multiple computers or networks. Here are some of the major recent cyber attacks and what we can learn from them.
were hit with cyber attacks back in October of 2023,officials said.The state Gaming Commission confirmed that its central operating system serving the state’s slot parlors was impacted by a cybersecurity attack — forcing the closure of Jake 58 casino in Islandia, Suffolk County, for several ...
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