When Russian troops stole millions of dollars of John Deere farm equipment from an authorized Deere dealer, Agrotek-Invest, in Melitopol, Ukraine, they trailered them to Checknya, about 700 miles away. What the Russians did not know is that (a) the equipment has a GPS in it, so Deere knew exactly where they took it and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the final version of a special publication focusing on helping manufacturers improve the cybersecurity of their industrial control system (ICS) environments. The guide, titled Protecting Information and System Integrity in Industrial Control System Environments: Cybersecurity for the Manufacturing Sector, is a collaboration between NIST and many […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]State Acknowledges Data Breach After 10 Months I guess better late than never. Finally, the State of Illinois is admitting to a data breach, sort of. Here is what they are now saying. Check the dates below. Notice who was among the last to know – the victims. Can the state be fined for breaking […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Earlier this month Homeland Security released 4 different advisories for industrial control system vulnerabilities. This comes in the wake of a successful breach of a water treatment plant in Florida. While that hack took advantage of poor cyber hygiene practices (obsolete unpatched software, shared passwords, etc.), it did call attention to the fact that our […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Maybe we should call it a dumpster fire, but whether we call it a shipwreck or a dumpster fire, it is a mess. According to pen testers, shipping industry security is where mainstream IT was years ago. The pen testers say that the attacks are TRIVIAL to execute an easy to mitigate against. These ships […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Kinetic warfare, a term that seems to have roots with former defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (see article), is the kind of war we are most familiar with – bombs, guns, bullets, poison gas. I don’t think it is going anywhere any time soon, but what is clear is that cyber warfare is likely to play […]
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