Security News

Group That Caused Power Outage Stops Focusing Exclusively on Ukraine
2018-06-07 10:53

Electrum, the Russia-linked hacker group believed to be responsible for the 2016 power outage in Ukraine, no longer focuses exclusively on this country, according to industrial cybersecurity firm...

Cloudflare Gets Transparent on DNS Resolver Outage
2018-06-04 19:17

It’s a cautionary tale for those coding the complex algorithms that go into automated mitigation.

A Spectre solution, a (very) brief Cloudflare outage, a bank heist in Canada, and more
2018-06-02 00:24

Also, the SEC takes aim at another shady ICO Roundup While we were busy chasing SpamCannibals, jailing Yahoo hackers, and blaming North Korea for everything else, there was some interesting...

A Spectre solution, a (very) brief Cloudflare outage, and a bank heist in Canada
2018-06-02 00:24

Also, the SEC takes aim at another shady ICO Roundup While we were busy chasing SpamCannibals, jailing Yahoo hackers, and blaming North Korea for everything else, there was some interesting...

Securing smart factories: How Schneider Electric connects devices and prevents outages
2018-04-24 14:36

In the industrial IoT, factories and data centers face two main barriers: connectivity and poor electrical infrastructure.

Have you evaluated the cost of a cloud outage?
2018-03-19 12:30

New findings from a study by Veritas Technologies, indicate that 60 percent of respondents have not fully evaluated the cost of a cloud outage to their business and are therefore ill prepared to...

After Outage, Hosting Giant OVH Promises Greater Paranoia
2017-11-09 18:17

French Firm Apologizes After Electrical Problem and Software Bug Disrupt ServiceFrench cloud computing and hosting giant OVH has apologized to customers after it suffered an outage that left many...

Found: “Crash Override” malware that triggered Ukrainian power outage (ArsTechnica)
2017-06-12 21:05

Attack tools can be used against a broad range of electric grids around the world.