What's that IoT device on your network? A lot of organizations may not know. That's why Gartner analyst Tim Zimmerman says enterprises need to create IoT security policies and governance rules to reduce risk.
Canadian IoT device manufacturer Sierra Wireless reported Tuesday it had suffered a ransomware attack over the weekend, forcing it to halt production. The attack has disrupted its website and some internal operations.
A Swiss national who recently highlighted flaws in Verkada surveillance cameras has been charged with criminal hacking by a U.S. federal grand jury and accused of illegally accessing and leaking data from numerous organizations, apparently including Intel, Nissan and the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
Hacking incidents - including ransomware attacks, phishing scams and episodes involving vendors - are still the dominant culprits in major health data breaches being reported to federal regulators so far this year. Why?
U.S. public schools faced a record number of cyber incidents in 2020, with over 400 attacks reported. This led to a spike in school cancellations, as IT staff members struggled to get systems back online while dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, reports the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center.
U.S. authorities have extended the crackdown on the Sky ECC cryptophone service by charging the CEO of parent company Sky Global and its alleged main distributor - both Canadians - with running an "illicit secret communications network" for criminals and hiding profits via shell companies and cryptocurrency.
Tales of poorly secured internet-connected cameras come along regularly. But the latest installment seems especially egregious because it involves Verkada, a widely used "surveillance camera as a service" startup, and led to remote hackers being able to spy on customers via their own cameras.
Police say they have disrupted Sky ECC - a global encrypted communications network allegedly used by numerous criminals to plan their operations - and made numerous arrests. Authorities say starting in February, they "unlocked" 3 million messages exchanged daily by the service's 170,000 users.
The "Arson Cats" research group says it was able to exploit flaws in internet-accessible security cameras built by Silicon Valley "cloud-based enterprise video security" startup Verkada to access live video and audio feeds from inside Tesla, Okta and Cloudflare offices, plus healthcare facilities and prisons.
In the new world of increased cyber risk, approaches that bridge the
IT/OT divide are no longer optional – they’re mission critical. Executive
leadership expects CIOs and CISOs to anticipate and stay ahead of the
enterprise-wide threat landscape, including oversight of cyber risks
related to industrial...
Industrial networks are quickly adopting Internet of Things (IoT) technologies
to reduce costs and deliver more value to customers and shareholders.
Unfortunately, this trend is creating new security risks, as many organizations
lack the ability to monitor and secure their IoT assets.
The challenges will only...
As society deals with the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic,
organizations are accelerating digitization to survive and thrive. This
places more focus on operational systems, which are at the heart of
value and revenue creation.
Adding to challenges, cybersecurity is ranked by executives as the
second highest...
Digital risk is everyone’s business, from the CEO to the end user. Yet in
many organizations, it’s the IT department that is tasked with managing
and minimizing it.
Gartner predicts that by 2023, 75% of organizations will expand their risk
management programs to address new cyber-physical systems...
This multinational pharmaceutical
company’s supply chain was distributed
across multiple manufacturing plants
and countries. While it had a good
understanding of the number of OT devices
on its networks, it wasn’t able to clearly
see how assets were communicating and
where vulnerabilities and risks...
The U.S. National Security Agency has issued "zero trust" guidance aimed at securing critical networks and sensitive data within key federal agencies. The NSA adds it is also assisting Defense Department customers with the zero trust implementations.
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