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The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is to issue its first ever set of cybersecurity regulations for pipelines, according to The Washington Post. The news comes in the wake of a recent ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline that knocked operational systems offline for five days, triggering panic buying that led to fuel shortages in the Southeast.  Last week, Colonial Pipeline paid a ransom of $4.4m to cyber-criminal gang DarkSide to regain control of its systems and data. According…

Triple-extortion is a new tool for ransomware attackers Length: 12:09 | May 25, 2021 Criminals send ransom demands not only to the attacked organization but to any customers, users or other third parties that would be hurt by the leaked data. Source link

Automated fraud attacks against e-commerce retailers have increased in volume, frequency and sophistication, according to new research published today. The Automated Fraud Benchmark Report: E-commerce Edition by PerimeterX is a new comprehensive annual report based on e-commerce cyber-attack activity over the past year. Findings draw upon anonymous data collected during live online interactions by millions of consumers and hundreds of millions of bots in 2020. Analysis of the data revealed traffic and threat patterns across hundreds of the world’s largest websites,…

The United States Coast Guard is to establish a Cyber Operational Assessments Branch this summer and create its first ever red team. The planned restructuring, first reported by Federal News Network, will support the cybersecurity work currently being undertaken by the Coast Guard’s blue team. Acting as a cyber adversary, the red team will emulate the behavior of threat actors and perform penetration tests to identify any weaknesses in the Coast Guard’s cyber-defenses.  Cyber blue team…

Cybersecurity expert says it all starts with process. The regulations will make it easier for companies to report breaches. TechRepublic’s Karen Roby spoke with Jennifer Bisceglie, CEO of Interos, about President Joe Biden’s executive order on cybersecurity. The following is an edited version of their conversation. SEE: Security incident response policy (TechRepublic Premium) Karen Roby: Go ahead and go over a couple of the main points of the president’s executive order. What really sticks out…

Some cybersecurity weak spots will be strengthened by Biden’s executive order, expert says Length: 11:36 | May 25, 2021 There’s still a lot of work to be done, but it will help companies feel better about reporting breaches and sharing information. Source link