Hackers remotely accessed the water treatment plant of a small Florida city last week and briefly changed the levels of lye in the drinking water, in the kind of critical infrastructure intrusion that cybersecurity experts have long warned about.
"This is dangerous stuff," Mr. Gualtieri said, urging managers of critical infrastructure systems, particularly in the Tampa area, to review and tighten their computer systems. "It's a bad act. It's a bad actor. It's not just a little chlorine, or a little fluoride — you're basically talking about lye."
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Hackers leak thousands of incidents in Austin surveillance, Statesman reports | kvue.com
AUSTIN, Texas — From a group of high-schoolers holding a peaceful chalk-art demonstration to a man who said he was taking photos of flowers outside the Austin police training facility, a new report from the Austin American-Statesman details a few of the nearly 2,000 surveillance incidents from over the last several years.
According to the report, a list was leaked by a hacker activist group last summer. It includes cases ranging from incidents like people threatening school shootings to other low-risk reports, such as people expressing their political opinions online.
GamaSec's "good hackers" launch solutions for SME cyber market | Insurance Business
The ever-changing nature of cyber risk, combined with the lack of historic cyber insurance claims data, makes it challenging for insurers to rapidly assess risk and determine appropriate premiums for their cyber insurance clients, especially for small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
This is a stumbling block that Avi Bar-Tov (pictured), cybersecurity expert and CEO of GamaSec, an Israel-based B2B2C insurtech, has set out to fix. Bar-Tov, who used to serve as an officer in the Israeli army, has been in the cybersecurity industry for over two decades. The first company he launched in Europe offered cybersecurity consultancy to Fortune 100 companies, but Bar-Tov’s interests soon shifted to the SME market, which he saw was in dire need of cybersecurity support.
Google says it's too easy for hackers to find new security flaws | MIT Technology Review
The hackers were hunting for, and finding, previously unknown flaws, known as zero-day vulnerabilities.
Soon after they were spotted, the researchers saw one exploit being used in the wild. Microsoft issued a patch and fixed the flaw, sort of. In September 2019, another similar vulnerability was found being exploited by the same hacking group.
More discoveries in November 2019, January 2020, and April 2020 added up to at least five zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited from the same bug class in short order. Microsoft issued multiple security updates: some failed to actually fix the vulnerability being targeted, while others required only slight changes that required just a line or two to change in the hacker's code to make the exploit work again.
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Hackers hit Nebraska Medical Center, U of Nebraska with malware, steal patient and employee
Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska Medical Center are alerting patients of a malware attack last year on its IT systems that may have exposed their protected health information.
In a Feb. 5 privacy incident notice , the Omaha, Neb.-based healthcare organizations told patients they discovered unusual network activity Sept. 20 that affected some of its IT systems. In response, the two medical centers shut off select systems, isolated potentially affected devices and investigated.
Saudi tech whiz beats hackers at their own game | Arab News
MAKKAH: In a world where technology is advancing at lightning speed, companies and organizations facing the constant threat of security breaches are finding help from the most unlikely people.
While working on his postdoctoral research paper, Marwan Al-Bahr, a member of the teaching staff at Umm Al-Qura University's College of Computer and Information Systems, discovered security vulnerabilities that threaten the privacy of some of the world's largest companies.
"The discovery was made through some information security research I had undertaken as I started my Ph.D. through Bluetooth and its protocols," Al-Bahr told Arab News.
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Email security firm Mimecast says hackers hijacked its products to spy on customers | Reuters
The company said it had been alerted to the attack by investigators at Microsoft and that "a sophisticated threat actor" had compromised the certificate used to guard connections between its products and Microsoft's cloud services.
In a four-paragraph statement, the company said around 10% of its more than 36,000 customers had been affected, but it believed "a low single digit number" of users had been specifically targeted.
Mimecast spokeswoman Laura Barnes declined further comment. "Our investigation is ongoing and we don't have anything additional to share at this time," she said.
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