At least 68 cyberattacks last year caused physical consequences to operational technology (OT) networks at more than 500 locations worldwide. Damage from these attacks ranged up to $100 millon. OT attacks are attacks on the systems that run businesses like manufacturing, transportation and the cities themselves. If you think about all of the computers that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to Flashpoint, a threat intelligence service, 2023 recorded 6,077 breaches compromising more than 17 billion records. That is a 35 percent increase over 2022. Again, according to Flashpoint, for the first two months of 2024, that number is up 429 percent over the first two months of 2023. The U.S. represented 60 percent of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Like Everyone Else, Reddit Plans to Sell User Content to AI Model Devs Seeing dollar signs in their future, Reddit decided to “license” their user created content to AI developers to train their models. The FTC is investigating in light of Reddit’s planned IPO. Reddit says it isn’t breaking the law to sell their user’s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If that headline doesn’t keep you up at night, I don’t know what will. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) says they have have found inefficiencies in CISA’s information sharing practices, in particular with critical infrastructure stakeholders. They also say that CISA is understaffed for handling OT incidents. Just to make sure everyone is on the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hacking and Stealing Your Car From the Outside Through Your Headlight Apparently this is real. Crooks can pop off the headlight trim on some cars and get access to the cables to your “smart” headlights. From there they have access to the data bus called the CAN bus and from there they can unlock and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Five Eyes Agencies: SolarWinds Hackers Adopting New Tactics As businesses move to the cloud, hackers are adopting new techniques since Software as a Service providers are much better at patching than most companies are. Instead, the Russian hackers are stealing authentication tokens and using them to get access to the cloud, including creating new accounts […]
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