A weekly discussion of new developments and the latest cybersecurity threats, including ransomware, malware, phishing schemes, DDoS attacks and more, facing the U.S. industrial sector.
When the Eastern European hacker group DarkSide shut down the Colonial Pipeline in May of 2021, the ramifications were felt across numerous landscapes.
In addition to impacting air travel and triggeri…
Tenable recently released their Ransomware Ecosystem white paper. So we sat down with Satnam Narang, a research engineer focused on security response at the company, to discuss some its findings, inc…
A great deal of cybersecurity attention, and rightfully so, is paid to the role of defending against and responding to outside attackers. However, just as important to establishing and reinforcing cy…
What else can we say as it relates to the industrial sector and the cybersecurity threats that continue to present themselves, other than – the battle wages on.
The value of the sector’s IP, the pleth…
There were a lot of trends emanating from the mid-1980s that thankfully died out over time, but one of them has not only persisted, but thrived. Although there were numerous samples of malware impact…
JBS Foods is a $30B meat processor that most people didn’t know about until they paid ransomware attackers REvil $11M last June in order to get plants in the U.S. and Brazil up and running, and preve…
The rise in ransomware attacks throughout the industrial sector has led to a surge in another, related activity – the purchasing of cyber insurance to help soften the blow of these attacks.
But today’…
You’ve probably heard a number of reports citing ransomware as the leading attack strategy within the industrial sector. In some instances, it’s been reported that ransomware groups are focusing as m…
The surge in cyberattacks experienced by the industrial sector has been credited to a number of issues ranging from outdated security software to lagging protocols surrounding data access and storage…
The industrial sector knows all too well about the need to innovate product offerings and production strategies in order to stay ahead of the competition. Unfortunately, the same can be said for cybe…
The industrial sector knows all too well about the need to innovate product offerings and production strategies in order to stay ahead of the competition. Unfortunately, the same can be said for cybe…
Regardless of the report, survey or research, all data related to industrial cybersecurity makes one thing very clear – the last two years have presented a dangerous uptick in the number of cybersecu…
While rogue individuals with an agenda and advanced cybersecurity skills are still prevalent, most headline-grabbing hacks are now originating from well-organized, highly talented groups or organizat…
Whether it's the infamous Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack last summer, or an ongoing number of water treatment facility hacks, there’s no doubt that infrastructure facilities have become a favori…
If there’s one thing that has become very apparent in dealing with cybersecurity issues throughout the industrial sector, it’s that responding to these challenges means taking a look at things from a…
In this episode we welcome Theo Zafirakos, the Chief Information Security Officer at Terranova Security, to discuss is company's recently report indicating that the success of phishing schemes contin…
If there’s one thing that has become very apparent in dealing with cybersecurity issues throughout the industrial sector, it’s that responding to these challenges means taking a look at things from a…
In this episode of Security Breach, we're joined by Brian Vecci, the Field CTO of Varonis, - a leading provider of cyber threat detection and response compliance software.
Varonis recently published …
In this episode of Security Breach, we're joined by Thierry Aubry, a Sales Executive at Open Systems.
Open Systems recently offered a look inside a phishing scheme and potential malware attack experi…
In addition to supply chain challenges and labor shortages, one of the biggest issues emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic for the industrial sector has been the huge uptick in cyberattacks.
To make th…