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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has published four Industrial Control Systems advisories, calling out several security flaws affecting products from Siemens, GE Digital, and Contec. The most critical of the issues have been identified in Siemens SINEC INS that could lead to remote code execution via a path traversal flaw and command injection.
A top priority of organizations this year is improving reliability and success of backups, followed by ensuring that Infrastructure as a Service and Software as a Service protection is equitable to the protection they rely on for datacenter-centric workloads. Modern data protection is needed to keep businesses running.
In order to examine how enterprises, their business partners and consumers are faring with digital trust, DigiCert commissioned the DigiCert 2022 State of Digital Trust survey. All of enterprises surveyed say digital trust is important.
Digital forensics is used to find, examine and analyze digital evidence that can serve in criminal investigations, but also in incident response, investigations of data breaches, to unearth insider threats, etc. Colm Gallagher, Forensics Director, CommSec Communications & Security, talks about the factors that make digital forensics more difficult for law enforcement and industry, and offers advice and lays out practical measures that can increase forensic readiness for all.
Decentralized multi-chain crypto wallet BitKeep on Wednesday confirmed a cyberattack that allowed threat actors to distribute fraudulent versions of its Android app with the goal of stealing users' digital currencies. "With maliciously implanted code, the altered APK led to the leak of user's private keys and enabled the hacker to move funds," BitKeep CEO Kevin Como said, describing it as a "Large-scale hacking incident."
"Broadly speaking, digital sovereignty means having control of your digital destiny," explains Tim Phipps, director of cloud alliances at French technology group Thales. Data is what many people think of first when they hear the term digital sovereignty.
Auto dealers have long resisted the shift to digital purchasing, favoring in-person transactions as much as possible, but COVID-19 forced a change in consumer behavior and normalized online car shopping and digitally transforming the auto industry. Digital agreements and transactions may be used but securing these transactions will continue to be another issue entirely.
The city of Antwerp, Belgium, is working to restore its digital services that were disrupted last night by a cyberattack on its digital provider. The disruption has affected services used by citizens, schools, daycare centers, and the police, which have been working intermittently today.
With so many manufacturers and devices to choose from, the smart home landscape is often a mishmash of support and usability. Simply put, until now, the lack of a unifying standard among various smart home technology standards made using devices together complicated and difficult.
The Indian government on Friday released a draft version of the much-awaited data protection regulation, making it the fourth such effort since it was first proposed in July 2018. The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, as it's called, aims to secure personal data, while also seeking users' consent in what the draft claims is "Clear and plain language" describing the exact kinds of information that will be collected and for what purpose.