BankInfoSecurity.com reported that the latest lawsuit “…claims the company lacked a cybersecurity program encompassing ransomware issues at the time of the attack, which led it to shut down pipeline operations serving much of the East Coast. It claims the company ignored warnings about cyber risks to interstate pipeline systems.” The…
Continue Reading Big Surprise – Colonial Pipeline now defending class action lawsuits!
HelpNetSecurity.com reported that “The shift to remote work amid the pandemic resulted in 47 percent of organizations reporting an increase of personal devices being used for work. As a result, a total of 82 percent of organizations said they now actively enable BYOD to some extent.” The June 17, 2021…
BankInfoSecurity.com reported that “the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday announced that it was able to recover 63.7 of the 75 bitcoins paid to the DarkSide ransomware-as-a-service operation by Colonial Pipeline.” The June 11, 2021 report entitled “How Did FBI Recover Colonial Pipeline’s DarkSide Bitcoins?” included these comments…
Continue Reading The FBI Recovered Colonial Pipeline Bitcoin Ransomware!
Darkreading.com reported that “Cyber as a sport is critical to developing these skills and why we’re recruiting cyber athletes, coaches, and sponsors to build the first-ever US Cyber Team.” The June 7, 2021 article entitled “Cyber Athletes Compete to Form US Cyber Team” included these comments:
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Darkreading.com reported that a “security directive, issued by the US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Transportation Security Administration (TSA), requires critical pipeline operators, such as Colonial Pipeline, to report all confirmed and potential cyberattacks, improve their incident response by assigning a cybersecurity coordinator, and create a cybersecurity plan based on…
Continue Reading Old News that Cyberattacks are Targeting Pipeline Systems (and Utilities)!
DataBreachToday.com reported that “Self-Professed ‘King of Fraud’ Aleksandr Zhukov…faked both the users and the webpages: he and his co-conspirators programmed computers that they had rented from commercial data centers in the United States and elsewhere to load advertisements on fabricated webpages, via an automated program, in order to fraudulently obtain…
Continue Reading “King of Fraud” is Convicted of $7 Million Digital Advertising Scam!
