Critical Infrastructure Security

Iran has been blamed by U.S. intelligence agencies for being the perpetrator of attempted compromise of the campaigns of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump previously reported by the Google Threat Analysis Group as part of its efforts to influence the upcoming elections.

While emergency and public health services, as well as public works activities, continue to be operational, the city's online and credit card systems have been taken down by the ransomware intrusion, noted officials.

Most attacks continued to be aimed at U.S. and European industrial firms, particularly those involved in manufacturing, according to a Dragos report.

Included in the 47 GB data exfiltrated from the county clerk's office's systems were financial documents, customer contracts, alarm system information, budget details, ballot information, and voter records as early as 2008, claimed RansomHub.

IT thought leader Stamos forecasts AI’s boom-bust cycle, the very expensive IT heterogeny business trend and reflects on the single most important CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage takeaway for the industry.

Stewart and Trey join us to talk about driving cybersecurity policies for the nation, what makes a good policy, what makes a bad policy, supply chain research and policies, and overall how we shape policies that benefit cybersecurity. Segment Resources: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/broken-trust-lessons-from-su...

The idea of an international standard for “cyber deception” has turned into a contentious subject, and the UK government has taken up the challenge.