President Joe Biden signed an extensive executive order Wednesday, detailing the government's plan to increase cybersecurity protection across the public and private sectors, as well as securing the nation's infrastructure against the type of attack that targeted SolarWinds and its customers.
Colonial Pipeline on Wednesday announced that the company had restarted its operations following a ransomware attack last week. The firm still says it will take several days for its supply chain operations to return to normal.
The ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline, which has disrupted the flow of gasoline and other petroleum products throughout the eastern U.S. since Friday, is prompting members of Congress to call for new cybersecurity regulations and ask probing questions about regulators' scrutiny of security measures.
An unsecured database of medical information on military veterans contained evidence of a potential incident, the security researcher who discovered the data leak says.
In April, Cybereason published a blog describing its research into the DarkSide ransomware strain that infected Colonial Pipeline this past week. Sam Curry, CSO of Cybereason, shares insights on DarkSide and the tactics behind the new breed of ransomware attacks.
The Babuk ransomware gang has reignited its feud with the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department by posting what it says is an additional 22GB of stolen data and what it claims is a transcript of the failed ransom negotiations.
Microsoft issued patches Tuesday for four more vulnerabilities in on-premises versions of the Exchange Server corporate email platform, one of which is a zero-day flaw.
An ongoing advanced persistent threat campaign dubbed "Operation TunnelSnake" has been using a Windows rootkit named Moriya to deploy a passive backdoor to spy on victims, the security firm Kaspersky reports.
For anyone wondering how the Russian-speaking, ransomware-wielding DarkSide crime syndicate was able to disrupt a major U.S. fuel pipeline, a more pertinent question might be: Why didn’t it happen sooner?
CISA is still awaiting more technical details from Colonial Pipeline about the Friday ransomware attack that forced it to shut down its operations, Brandon Wales, the agency's acting director, told a Senate committee that's probing the attack and other cybersecurity incidents.
Gregory Touhill, the retired Air Force general and former federal CISO under President Obama, minces no words when he describes the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack as a "global day of reckoning" for critical infrastructure protection.
Attackers are using Avaddon ransomware to target diverse organizations in the U.S., Australia and elsewhere, according to the FBI and the Australian Cyber Security Center. Among the recent victims was a service provider to Australian telecommunications company Telstra.
The faces of fraud have changed, and so have the defenses. But improved protection doesn’t have to mean a diminished customer experience. Soudamini Modak of LexisNexis Risk Solutions discusses the latest fraud trends and how to hone defenses.
Tom Kellerman of VMware Carbon Black shares his opinions about whether a nation-state was behind the recent ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline and what the U.S. government should do to prevent other cyberattacks.
The FTC rejected arguments from major technology companies and trade groups that independent repair shops increase risks to data security. That could help propel the "right to repair" movement, which contends manufacturers use anticompetitive tactics to lock consumers and independent repairers out.
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