Perera is editorial director for news at Information Security Media Group. He previously covered privacy and data security for outlets including MLex and Politico.
Vulnerabilities in a smart building energy management system including an easily exploitable, two-year-old flaw that hasn't been widely patched could let hackers take over instances misconfigured to allow internet exposure. The flaws affect Cylon Aspect software from electrical engineering firm ABB.
The oil and gas industry has high levels of cyber awareness and low levels of cyber insurance, says a sectoral assessment from credit rating agency Moody's. The sector has experienced a clutch of high-profile attacks including a high-profile 2021 incident at Colonial Pipeline.
A severe vulnerability in Rockwell Automation software used to configure programmable logic controllers could allow attackers to remotely execute malicious code. The vulnerability is rated 8.8 on the CVSS v4 scale. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency advised immediate patching.
An artificial intelligence-fueled growth in data center construction has the federal government asking what it should do to help manage data security risks. The NTIA is interested in identifying opportunities "to improve data centers’ market development, supply chain resilience, and data security."
Fusty and fussy operational technology devices are probably the farthest things away from a web server. Except - not anymore. But web servers embedded into industrial firmware are also a potential bonanza for hackers, say researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
A U.S. federal watchdog said government agencies could better synchronize efforts to improve water and wastewater sector cybersecurity efforts and faulted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency for not coordinating well with the Environmental Protection Agency.
BlackBerry reversed plans for an equity carve-out of its internet of things business in a Monday announcement of plans to instead make its cybersecurity and IoT units independently operated entities. The Canadian firm also selected company insider John Giamatteo as its new CEO.
The Biden administration is backing down from efforts to make cybersecurity a component of safety assessments of water systems, months after federal judges ordered the EPA to halt those efforts. The agency said it would make the security of operational technology a factor in sanitary surveys.
Cybersecurity will take its place alongside chemical contaminant removal as an element the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says public water systems must mitigate. "Cyberattacks that are targeting water systems are real and a significant threat," said an EPA official.
Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks say they identified an attempted hack on a large petroleum refining company based inside a NATO member that came from a threat actor known as Gamaredon and Trident Ursa. The Ukrainian government traces the group to a Russian FSB.
Our website uses cookies. Cookies enable us to provide the best experience possible and help us understand how visitors use our website. By browsing ot.today, you agree to our use of cookies.