The company that owns Palisades nuclear plant has a private pandemic plan that includes a contingency to sequester employees live at the site temporarily, though that scenario is unlikely, a company spokeswoman said. Entergy owns the nuclear plant situated on the Lake Michigan shoreline about 7 miles south of South Read more…
We have our first large scale data breach of the decade, Toll. Toll, a transport and logistics network which delivers up to 95 million items globally every year, has temporarily shut down a number of its IT systems as a precautionary measure after suffering a cyber-security breach on Friday, according Read more…
Albany County in the state of New York has been struck by two separate cyber-attacks in three weeks. A five-figure ransom in Bitcoin was paid by Albany County Airport Authority (ACAA) earlier this month after their servers became infected with ransomware on Christmas day. Airport CEO Philip Calderone said that the authority Read more…
DDoS attacks are getting harder to identify, and they will most likely be found to originate in Indonesia or China, new research has shown According to Akamai Technologies’ Second Quarter 2013 State of the Internet Report, “Adversaries conducting DDoS attacks spend increasing effort to make their attacks look more and more Read more…
Iranian cyber attacks against the United States could be arriving soon, experts say. Cybersecurity experts warn that there is a risk of a state sponsored by the Iranian state cyber attack against the United States remains high. During the past week, there have been concerns that Iran may retaliate against the United Read more…
Saudi authorities detected a new destructive cyberattack suspected of coming from Iran on Dec. 29. On the same day the U.S. military struck targets controlled by Iranian-backed proxies in retaliation for a rocket attack that killed an American contractor the previous Friday. Officials in Riyadh, who nicknamed the malware “Dustman,” did not Read more…
We asked some experts for their 2020 cyber security predictions. They told us to look out for ransomware, election security, 5G, IoT, regulations and more. Last month, we asked experts about the biggest cyber security threats for 2020. This month we wanted to hear their cyber security predictions for 2020: new Read more…
Department of Homeland Security issues warning for potential cyber security attack Potential for major cyber attack on U.S. critical infrastructure now a real threat considering that Iran may retaliate with it’s cyber war force. CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) – The Department of Homeland Security issued a warning for a potential Read more…
Protecting users from government-backed hacking and disinformation – cyber security. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) works to counter targeted and government-backed hacking against Google and our users. This is an area we have invested in deeply for over a decade. Our daily work involves detecting and defeating threats, and warning Read more…
Google Details Its Responses to Cyber Attacks, Disinformation Government groups continue to attack user credentials and distribute disinformation according to a new blog post from Google’s Threat Analysis Group. In the second quarter of 2019, Google sent more than 12,000 warnings to users targeted by state-sponsored phishing campaigns. That number Read more…