The High Cost of Human Error In OT Systems

In baseball, a mistake made by a player that could have easily been avoided is sometimes called an “unforced error.” An unforced error is not an official error that is, they are not reflected in statistics, however, they can result in additional runs being scored, runners getting on base, and eve...

CVE-2020-15174 Unpreventable top-level navigation in Electron

In Electron before versions 11.0.0-beta.1, 10.0.1, 9.3.0 or 8.5.1 the will-navigate event that apps use to prevent navigations to unexpected destinations as per our security recommendations can be bypassed when a sub-frame performs a top-frame navigation across sites. The issue is patched in...

Human-operated ransomware attacks: A preventable disaster

Human-operated ransomware campaigns pose a significant and growing threat to businesses and represent one of the most impactful trends in cyberattacks today. In these hands-on-keyboard attacks, which are different from auto-spreading ransomware like WannaCry or NotPetya, adversaries employ...

4 lessons to be learned from the DOE’s DDoS attack

Analysts, researchers, industry professionals, and pundits alike have all posited the dangers of the next-generation “smart grid,” particularly when it comes to cybersecurity. They warn that without the right measures in place, unscrupulous parties could essentially wreak havoc on the bulk of...

The Critical Security Controls: Basic Cybersecurity Hygiene for your Organization

It’s a well-known fact that most successful cyber attacks are easily preventable. That’s because the majority are neither highly sophisticated nor carefully customized. Instead, they are of the “spray and pray” sort. They try to exploit known vulnerabilities for which patches are available, or to...

Common Security Mistakes Can Lead to Major Compromises

SAN FRANCISCO–Security is hard and getting it right all the time is nearly impossible. But many of the mistakes that people make are simple, avoidable ones that can lead to serious intrusions and major network compromises. “Maintaining network defenses by hand is difficult,” Mike Lloyd, chief...

Heartland, TJX Attacks Look Sadly Familiar

The news that federal authorities have indicted the man they claim is responsible for the TJX attack for also allegedly hacking into the networks of Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven and the Hannaford Brothers grocery chain shows that law enforcement is indeed stepping up its work on cybercrime...