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The United States and its allies have linked a group of Russian military intelligence hackers (tracked as Cadet Blizzard and Ember Bear) to Unit 29155 of Russia's Main Directorate of the General...
A comprehensive guide authored by Dean Parsons emphasizes the growing need for specialized ICS security measures in the face of rising cyber threats. With a staggering 50% increase in ransomware...
In this Help Net Security video, Mike Lexa, CISO and Global VP of IT Infrastructure and Operations at CNH, discusses how the federal government is taking food security more seriously and what steps must be taken to prioritize security measures. What might happen if our food systems were disrupted?
The Critical Infrastructure Edition of the 2024 Data Threat Report, by technology organisation Thales, found that ransomware incidents at critical infrastructure organisations are on the rise globally - even as these organisations explore the applications and data risks of AI. In a conversation with TechRepublic, Thales' ANZ Director of Data Security Erick Reyes said ransomware attackers are most likely to target critical infrastructure organisations that hold critical data. Critical infrastructure organisations juggling ransomware and AI. Thales' report found that 42% of critical infrastructure organisations in all global markets surveyed were breached at some point in the past - 7% lower than all industries.
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered new infrastructure linked to a financially motivated threat actor known as FIN7. The two clusters of potential FIN7 activity "indicate communications...
DigiCert urges critical infrastructure operators to request a delay if they cannot reissue their certificates, as required by an ongoing certificate mass-revocation process announced on Tuesday. [...]
Cybersecurity company Acronis is warning that a now-patched critical security flaw impacting its Cyber Infrastructure product has been exploited in the wild. The flaw impacts the following versions of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure -.
CVE-2023-45249, a critical vulnerability affecting older versions of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure, is being exploited by attackers. Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is an IT infrastructure solution that provides storage, compute, and network resources.
Acronis warned customers to patch a critical Cyber Infrastructure security flaw that lets attackers bypass authentication on vulnerable servers using default credentials. Acronis Cyber Protect is a unified multi-tenant platform that combines remote endpoint management, backup, and virtualization capabilities and helps run disaster recovery workloads and store enterprise backup data securely.
BIND 9.20, a stable branch suitable for production use, has been released. In BIND 9.16, the developers introduced a new networking manager using libuv as an asynchronous event handler on top of the existing application infrastructure.