Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Is it fair to judge an organization’s information security posture simply by looking at its Internet-facing assets for weaknesses commonly sought after and exploited by attackers, such as outdated software or accidentally exposed data and devices? the security posture of vendor partners). How useful is such a score?

Security 183

Security Energy and Utilities Risk Data breaches 183

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Financial information, medical data, health reimbursements, postal addresses, telephone numbers and emails are not thought to have been compromised.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Security 52

IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 21, 2024

Accelerated data processing Efficient data processing pipelines are critical for AI workflows, especially those involving large datasets. Leveraging distributed storage and processing frameworks such as Apache Hadoop, Spark or Dask accelerates data ingestion, transformation and analysis.

Energy and Utilities 66

Energy and Utilities Artificial Intelligence Cloud Communications 66

IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 8, 2024

Like its predecessors, 3G, 4G and 4G LTE, 5G technology uses radio waves for data transmission. Primarily, this is due to its ability to handle large volumes of data generated by complex devices using its networks. As mobile technology has expanded over the years, the amount of data users generate every day has increased exponentially.

Energy and Utilities 105

Energy and Utilities IoT Cloud Artificial Intelligence 105

IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 12, 2023

After getting familiar with the app architecture, priorities and requirements, IBM provided a detailed trade-offs analysis, including improvement options and security and cost implications. Currently, data centers are a significant source of organizations’ energy usage and carbon emissions.

Cloud 78

Cloud Energy and Utilities Digital transformation Communications 78

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

For instance, when utility officials are aware that a heat wave is on its way, they can plan energy procurement to prevent power outages. 3 While the transition from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy sources is already underway, accelerating this transition could help further limit emissions, even amid rising global energy needs.

Energy and Utilities 119

Energy and Utilities Artificial Intelligence Agriculture Risk 119

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The LookingGlass scoutPrime threat intelligence platform (TIP) integrates enterprise-grade external security threat information with information on internal architecture and security information to create actionable, prioritized risk scores for threats. Security Qualifications STIX & TAXII 2.0 compliant.

Energy and Utilities 79

Energy and Utilities Risk Marketing Cloud 79

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Since August 2020, the group has launched its leak site to threaten its victim to release the stolen data. Recently the Conti gang hit the attack on the Australian energy CS Energy and threaten to leak the stolen files. ” reads the analysis published by AdvIntel. ” continues AdvIntel. Pierluigi Paganini.

Ransomware 126

Ransomware Energy and Utilities IT Libraries 126

Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2023

However, based on our analysis of the capabilities, we consider it feasible that the projects represent only some pieces of a variety of capabilities pursued by Russian-sponsored actors to conduct different types of cyber operations.” The documents include details for three projects named Scan, Amesit, and Krystal-2B. continues the report.

Energy and Utilities 96

Energy and Utilities Education Ransomware IT 96

Data Protection Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) held public briefings about an attempt by a state-sponsored Russian hacking group to target control systems for U.S. DHS’ webinar explained that the hackers obtained access to vendors providing computer services to electric utilities companies. On July 23 and 25, 2018, the U.S. 5) Alerting.

Energy and Utilities 40

Energy and Utilities Computer and Electronics Risk Access 40

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2022

Cobalt Strike was created a decade ago by Raphael Mudge as a tool for security professionals. A few weeks ago, security researchers found evidence of Cobalt Strike payloads in Microsoft SQL servers. It’s a comprehensive platform that emulates very realistic attacks. Vulnerability assessment and pentesting are two different things.

Energy and Utilities 125

Energy and Utilities Ransomware Communications Security 125

IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 14, 2024

Like its predecessors, 5G uses radio waves to transmit data. This is largely due to its ability to move large volumes of data swiftly and securely between connected devices at speeds never achieved before. AI and ML) require too much data to run at speeds offered by previous generations of wireless networks.

Cloud 61

Cloud IoT Energy and Utilities Artificial Intelligence 61

Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2020

Ragnar Locker deploys Windows XP virtual machines to encrypt victim’s files, the trick allows to evaded detection from security software. Crooks always devise new techniques to evade detection, the Ragnar Locker is deploying Windows XP virtual machines to encrypt victim’s files while bypassing security measures.

Encryption 110

Encryption Ransomware Energy and Utilities File names 110

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

Threat intelligence feeds are continually updated streams of data that inform users of different cybersecurity threats, their sources, and any infrastructure impacted or at risk of being impacted by those threats. As a bonus, many of these tools are free to access and have specialized feeds that focus on different industries and sectors.

Cybersecurity 68

Cybersecurity Access Metadata Energy and Utilities 68

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

Kali Linux turns 10 this year, and to celebrate, the Linux penetration testing distribution has added defensive security tools to its arsenal of open-source security tools. For now, Kali is primarily known for its roughly 600 open source pentesting tools, allowing pentesters to easily install a full range of offensive security tools.

Energy and Utilities 126

Energy and Utilities Cybersecurity Security Passwords 126

IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 16, 2024

Businesses are increasingly embracing data-intensive workloads, including high-performance computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). These technologies drive innovation on their hybrid, multicloud journeys while focusing on resilience, performance, security and compliance.

Energy and Utilities 92

Energy and Utilities IT Cloud Unstructured data 92

Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2020

Threat actors employed the previously-undetected PoetRAT Trojan in a Coronavirus-themed campaign aimed at government and energy sectors. . ” reads the analysis published by Cisco Talos. ” reads the analysis published by Cisco Talos. ” continues the analysis. The messages used a document named “C19.docx,”

Energy and Utilities 113

Energy and Utilities Archiving Phishing Government 113

IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The modern pace of data creation is staggering. The average organization produces data constantly—perhaps even continuously—and soon it’s investing in servers to provide ample storage for that information. But the creation of new data never slows for long. What is a data center?

Energy and Utilities 98

Energy and Utilities Cloud IT Access 98

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For example, when surveying the market for email security, survey results should include respondents from each category that might represent different needs. The survey should have representation from categories such as: Company size: small to large Industry vertical: healthcare, energy, etc.

Cybersecurity 90

Cybersecurity Marketing Energy and Utilities Access 90

IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. Data breached: 5 TB. Akumin Inc.

Data Privacy 101

Data Privacy Energy and Utilities Privacy Manufacturing 101

CGI

MARCH 11, 2019

Embracing digital technologies to build a low-carbon society: Are local energy communities the answer? Are local energy communities the answer? The current energy system is demand led and is a centralized top-down system—essentially one-way traffic from production to consumption. Creating a self-sustaining energy ecosystem.

Energy and Utilities 74

Energy and Utilities Marketing IT Security 74

IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: 183,754,481 records. EasyPark data breach: 21.1 million data records belonging to EasyPark have been listed for sale on a hacking forum.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. The security researcher Bob Diachenko of SecurityDiscovery first identified the exposed information in mid-September. Some payment card data was also exposed.

Data Privacy 106

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 106

Info Source

DECEMBER 8, 2023

These solutions are designed to acquire, classify, validate, and convert business inputs into valuable data for use in business transactions, analytics, records management, discovery, and compliance applications. All business inputs are interpreted to understand the content, and where and why it is needed.

Marketing 40

Marketing Customer Experience Energy and Utilities Digital transformation 40

IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. The data is more than mere credentials, too – according to Cybernews, most of the exposed data is sensitive. Data breached: more than 26 billion records.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Retail Privacy Manufacturing 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Unprotected Real Estate Wealth Network database exposes more than 1.5 Data breached: 1,523,776,691 records.

Data Privacy 107

Data Privacy Insurance Manufacturing Retail 107

IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 17, 2023

Today, utilities and many other industries use drones extensively to conduct surveys, map assets and monitor business operations. They use drones for tasks as simple as aerial photography or as complex as sophisticated data collection and processing. The global commercial drone market is projected to grow from USD 8.15

Energy and Utilities 80

Energy and Utilities Data collection Analytics Mining 80

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After receiving input from industry experts and doing my own analysis of the year’s driving forces, I identified five major cybersecurity trends. Without guidelines, organizations risk unfettered use of AI, risks of data leaks, and no recourse for unethical AI use within the organization.

Cybersecurity 136

Cybersecurity Cloud Ransomware Risk 136

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 30, 2022

I’m Robert Vamosi and in this episode I’m talking about cyber ranges-- simulations that can both teach and improve the security of your networks. Or when we do these larger assessments for say, large banks, we have our red team going live against the security teams. And now the data from that environment is not generic.

Military 40

Military Energy and Utilities Government IT 40

ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

For example, in 2009, the Obama administration provided financial incentives to utilities in the United States. And again, smart meters were positioned squarely as making the environment more friendly by knowing how and when energy is being used by individual customers. But we all know how security by obscurity works in the end.

Energy and Utilities 52

Energy and Utilities Computer and Electronics IT Communications 52

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

agencies are approaching the shift, what makes 5G different, and an analysis of deployment to date. Whether it’s a misconfiguration or inadequate security or patching , new vulnerabilities found in IoT systems seem to make the news every week. There are no secure implementation guides or standards for network operators.

Risk 119

Risk Cybersecurity IoT Computer and Electronics 119

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Renewable energy is critical to combatting climate change and global warming. The use of clean energy and renewable energy resources—such as solar, wind and hydropower—originates in early human history; how the world has harnessed power from these resources to meet its energy needs has evolved over time.

Energy and Utilities 77

Energy and Utilities Manufacturing Agriculture Paper 77

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

Forescout’s Platform not only enables robust NAC capabilities, but also offers options for enhanced security, including eXtended Detection and Response (XDR). Most importantly, Forescout’s agnostic Platform works with both a wide variety of networking vendors, device vendors, and security tools.

IoT 73

IoT Compliance Cloud Access 73

ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2020

When you capture someone else’s exploit and use it (or patch it), you’ve used their energy against them. If you can better use an adversary’s energy and time for your own benefit, you have a higher chance of succeeding. There is value in offense and you get some utility such as access, intelligence, or control.

Energy and Utilities 52

Energy and Utilities Security Risk Paper 52

ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2020

When you capture someone else’s exploit and use it (or patch it), you’ve used their energy against them. If you can better use an adversary’s energy and time for your own benefit, you have a higher chance of succeeding. There is value in offense and you get some utility such as access, intelligence, or control.

Energy and Utilities 52

Energy and Utilities Security Risk Paper 52

ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2020

When you capture someone else’s exploit and use it (or patch it), you’ve used their energy against them. If you can better use an adversary’s energy and time for your own benefit, you have a higher chance of succeeding. There is value in offense and you get some utility such as access, intelligence, or control.

Energy and Utilities 52

Energy and Utilities Security Risk Paper 52

IT Governance

DECEMBER 19, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: personal data belonging to 14,690,284 individuals. Data breached: personal data belonging to 14,690,284 individuals. Data breached: 8 TB.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52