Hackers with minimal experience and technical expertise are increasingly targeting industrial networks, driving a new wave of low sophistication OT breaches that researchers tell SC Media is a strong learning opportunity for criminals.
IoT security is bad mostly everywhere, but threats against medical devices bring some of the most worrying potential for damage against health care organizations and their patients.
In predictions for 2030, researchers honed in on a list of emerging technologies that could create new wrinkles in the security landscape, including automation, machine learning and AI, additive manufacturing and the prevalence of 5G and widescale IoT.
Today's special columnist, Scott Register of Keysight Technologies, says government and industry must come together to secure the nation's critical infrastructure in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack.
The flaws affect at least 25 different products made by more than a dozen organizations, including Amazon, ARM, Google Cloud, Samsung, RedHat, Apache and others.
Kristin Sanders, chief information security officer for the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority, revealed how New Mexico’s largest water and wastewater utility has been addressing the security challenge by leveraging a series of software solutions, sensors and internet-of-things technology.
Columnist Elad Ben-Meir of SCADAfence writes that critical infrastructure have become more vulnerable than ever to a cyberattack. Security perimeters have been stretched at a time when industrial operating systems are increasingly operated remotely, opening up new threat vectors and numerous entry points for attackers.
A technique known as radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting could be leveraged to give unique ID to the billions of rogue IoT devices lurking within home and business networks.
