The Biden administration kicked off a 100-day effort on Tuesday to beef up cybersecurity in the nation’s power grid, calling for industry leaders to install technologies that could thwart attacks on the electricity supply. The move follows a high-profile, if unsuccessful, cyberattack in Florida that sought to compromise a water treatment plant, which highlighted some […]

Nearly 70% of employees polled in a new survey said they recently received cybersecurity training from their employers, yet 61% nevertheless failed when asked to take a basic quiz on the topic. This was one of the leading findings of a research study – conducted by TalentLMS on behalf of Kenna Security – that sought […]

In recent years, small towns and municipalities have been increasingly targeted by cybercriminals, not only just for monetary profit, but also to disrupt infrastructure and even threaten citizens. Most recently, we saw a hacker try to compromise internal systems to effectively poison the entire town’s water supply in Oldsmar, Florida. While ultimately unsuccessful, this incident […]

A data leak involving personal details of hundreds of millions of Facebook users is being reviewed by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC). The database is believed to contain a mix of Facebook profile names, phone numbers, locations and other facts about more than 530 million people. Facebook says the data is “old”, from a previously-reported […]

With an unexpected year of massive change behind us, many organizations have now an extensive remote workforce, new technologies in use, and digital transformation under way across the board. While this has introduced many opportunities for SMBs, it has also come with a host of cybersecurity challenges. To meet these challenges, you must start by […]

There can be no doubt that the last year has been unprecedented for businesses. The Covid-19 pandemic has caused serious challenges with many companies not even being able to stay open for the majority of the year, and even those that were able to open found themselves struggling with constantly changing governmental advice and fluctuating […]

A new survey has highlighted the cybersecurity risks remote workers face in the new era of home working, against a constant background of breaches and attacks. The survey, carried out for cloud provider Doherty Associates, covered 3,000 IT decision makers (ITDMs) and 2,000 general workforce members across companies in private equity, investment, asset management, insurance/underwriting […]

A cyber security law introduced three years ago was meant to boost the resilience of the UK’s energy sector by obliging gas and electricity firms to report when they were hacked. But since then not a single report has been made, Sky News can reveal, despite numerous successful hacks of British energy firms attributed to […]

End of an era James Pavur, a security researcher and Oxford University PhD student who has done extensive research into satellite broadband security risks, told The Daily Swig that the era when satellite systems were beyond the reach of hackers is coming to an end. “Satellite systems used to be made up of expensive kit, […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to have authorised attempts to influence last year’s US election in favour of former President Donald Trump, intelligence officials say. Moscow spread “misleading or unsubstantiated allegations” about the eventual winner, Joe Biden, according to a US government report. But it said no foreign government had compromised the final results. […]