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FERC issues notice of proposed rulemaking to extend reporting requirements for cyberattacks targeting the energy sector

Data Protection Report

DHS’ webinar explained that the hackers obtained access to vendors providing computer services to electric utilities companies. This initial access enabled the hackers to gain entry to power company control systems through a complex series of security compromises lasting quite some time. electrical grids and power plants.

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STEPS FORWARD: Math geniuses strive to make a pivotal advance — by obfuscating software code

The Last Watchdog

Related: How Multi Party Computation is disrupting encrypti on An accomplished violinist, Einstein, no doubt, appreciated the symmetry of his metaphor. While it’s impossible to remotely access and tinker with a human brain, it’s currently trivial for a proficient hacker to remotely access and alter just about any piece of software coding.

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FERC Approves NERC’s Supply Chain Risk Management Reliability Standards and Directs NERC to Expand Their Scope

Data Matters

A string of Governmental announcements have increasingly sounded the alarm about the growing cybersecurity threat facing the energy sector. Among other things, these reports have announced that state-sponsored cyber actors have successfully gained access to the control rooms of utilities. Procedural History.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in December 2020 – 148 million records breached

IT Governance

Financial information. Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. In other news…. Cyber attacks. attack causes chaos in the Braunau town hall (unknown) Cyber ??

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Business ID Theft Soars Amid COVID Closures

Krebs on Security

This story is about the victims of a particularly aggressive business ID theft ring that’s spent years targeting small businesses across the country and is now pivoting toward using that access for pandemic assistance loans and unemployment benefits. ” PHANTOM OFFICES. ” RECYCLING VICTIMS.

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Cybersecurity Risks of 5G – And How to Control Them

eSecurity Planet

Consumer electronics, business, network appliances, and industrial IoT (IIoT) devices are all driving the exponential growth of IoT systems. Insecure implementations may result in unauthorized access to threat actors and potential data breaches.” To be successful, an attacker must gain access to the 5G Service Based Architecture.

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A greener library: The Bodleian?s push for sustainability

CILIP

These roles that support a building and its operation can sometimes feel a bit thankless, but we have the privilege of knowing our efforts help to preserve amazing collections for access and use, as well as protecting wonderful buildings. improvements these groups have led on: Switch off / Green electronics campaign. She said: ?For