ICS under fire: Water treatment plant hacked
Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are like a little brother who is slow on the uptake compared to grown-up IT. Although ICS can do almost anything that IT can do, uses the same protocols and is similar...
37% of all companies were victims of ransomware attacks in 2021. Malware attacks, phishing attempts, DNS vulnerabilities and other methods of digital data theft can cause reputation damage as well as significant financial costs to businesses, especially given the higher risk of increased remote working. IT managers need to be on their guard and take these and other security threats seriously to ensure secure communication throughout their organization and deliver business continuity. Read about the latest news and developments in cybercrime.
ICS under fire: Water treatment plant hacked
Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are like a little brother who is slow on the uptake compared to grown-up IT. Although ICS can do almost anything that IT can do, uses the same protocols and is similar...
We've all pretty much gotten used to the fact that malware isn’t likely to go away any time soon. Malware only usually makes the headlines these days if it causes substantial damage or is particularly severe. During the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve mostly heard about malware ...
The SolarWinds Hack – Pearl Harbor without planes
As if 2020 wasn’t unpleasant enough, the SolarWinds hack added fuel to the fire right at the end of the year. A – presumably – state-sponsored hacker group managed to break into the product repositories of the software manufacturer SolarWinds...
SASE – a cloud-based model for network security beyond the data center
SASE emerged as a new buzzword in forums and company presentations during the end of 2019. SASE, pronounced ‘Sassy’, stands for Security Access Service Edge. Put simply, it is an efficient way of combining management and security functions in the cloud and existing data centers ...
Phishing is dead, long live smishing
In fact, the title of this post is misleading, phishing is unfortunately far from being dead and buried. Cybercriminals continue to use all sorts of tricks to get their victims to click on malicious links or malware. A recent study by OpenText into phishing/scam emails and cyber ...
Full points for DNS vulnerability SIGRed on the CVSS scale
Sometimes finishing with 10 out of 10 points is a reason for celebration. Unfortunately, in this case, things are different. A newly discovered vulnerability in Windows DNS servers, SIGRed has achieved an ominous 10.0 out of 10.0 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) ...
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