Security News

Cloud IT infrastructure revenue has almost tripled in the last four years
2017-10-09 12:30

Vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud IT, including public and private cloud, grew 25.8% year over year in the second quarter of...

DDoS Attacks More Likely to Hit Critical Infrastructure Than APTs: Europol
2017-09-27 18:07

While critical infrastructure has been targeted by sophisticated threat actors, attacks that rely on commonly available and easy-to-use tools are more likely to occur, said Europol in its 2017...

Verizon Wireless Internal Credentials, Infrastructure Details Exposed in Amazon S3 Bucket
2017-09-22 19:56

Verizon is the latest company to leak confidential data through an exposed Amazon S3 bucket.

DOE invests $50 million to improve critical energy infrastructure security
2017-09-12 21:21

Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) is announcing awards of up to $50 million to DOE’s National Laboratories to support early stage research and development of next-generation tools and...

Complete and continuous cloud infrastructure protection (Help Net Security)
2017-08-29 12:45

In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2017, Hari Srinivasan, Director of Product Management at Qualys, talks about the challenges involved in securing clouds, and explains how to gain complete...

Reports Suggests 'Fleeting Window' to Prevent Major Cyber Attack on Critical Infrastructure (Security Week)
2017-08-24 16:06

The National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) published a draft report this week titled Securing Cyber Assets: Addressing Urgent Cyber Threats to Critical Infrastructure (PDF). The report...

Researchers Uncover Infrastructure Behind Chthonic, Nymaim Trojans (Security Week)
2017-08-17 02:48

While analyzing malware that uses PowerShell for infection, Palo Alto Networks managed to uncover the infrastructure behind recent attacks that leveraged the Chthonic and Nymaim Trojans, along...

Dragos Raises $10 Million to Protect Critical Infrastructure From Cyber Attacks (Security Week)
2017-08-14 22:19

Dragos, a startup focused on protecting industrial control systems (ICS) and critical infrastructure from cyber threats, announced on Monday that it has raised $10 million through a Series A...

Engineering Firm Exposed Electrical Infrastructure Details: Researchers (Security Week)
2017-08-10 11:24

Misconfiguration Issues with systems operated by Texas-based electrical engineering operator Power Quality Engineering (PQE) resulted in the information of various clients being exposed to the...

How a port misconfiguration exposed critical infrastructure data (Help Net Security)
2017-08-09 21:01

Much has already been said and written about the dangers of potential cyber attacks targeting the electric/power grid. And in Ukraine, they’ve already gone from theoretical scenarios to actual...