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Monitoring the dark web to identify threats to energy sector organizations

Security Affairs

Searchlight Cyber researchers warn of threat actors that are offering on the dark web access to energy sector organizations. Dark web intelligence firm Searchlight Cyber published a report that analyzes how threat actors in the dark web prepare their malicious operations against energy organizations.

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Merging top-down and bottom-up planning approaches

IBM Big Data Hub

This blog series discusses the complex tasks energy utility companies face as they shift to holistic grid asset management to manage through the energy transition. The first post of this series addressed the challenges of the energy transition with holistic grid asset management.

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The Evolving Cybersecurity Threats to Critical National Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

However, simple actions like adopting multi-factor authentication (MFA) or encrypting sensitive data everywhere should be exercised throughout the year and not just during that month. The threat of attacks against Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) – energy, utilities, telecommunications, and transportation – is a top priority.

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Leaked documents from Russian firm NTC Vulkan show Sandworm cyberwarfare arsenal

Security Affairs

These projects include tools, training programs, and a red team platform for exercising various types of offensive cyber operations, including cyber espionage, IO, and operational technology (OT) attacks.” ” reads the report published by Mandiant. ” concludes the report.

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Draft Cybersecurity Law Published for Comment in China

Hunton Privacy

Regardless of their technological resources and practical experience, these operators are required by the Draft Cybersecurity Law to support and cooperate with the government’s leading role in the furtherance of cybersecurity, rather than exercising a leading role of their own.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 27 November – 3 December 2023

IT Governance

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. According to CyberNews , more than 300 million data records were compromised, including 21,000 telephone numbers and 31,000 email addresses. Some payment card data was also exposed.

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The path to embedded sustainability

IBM Big Data Hub

How is sustainability managed—as an annual measuring exercise or an ongoing effort that supports business transformation? The study found companies were just “doing sustainability” or approaching sustainability as a compliance task or accounting exercise rather than a business transformation accelerator.