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Communication with instructors and students is still crucial to fighting ransomware attacks against higher education institutions, though there needs to be a safety net, a group of university cybersecurity officials said during a panel discussion Thursday. Schools are centralizing data storage, adopting multi-factor authentication and segmenting networks for students, staff and researchers to protect data in case of a breach, panelists said. Mary Dickerson, the chief information security officer at the University of Houston, said…

No discussion on ICS attacks could be complete without talking about what some would call, ‘the elephant in the room.’ Critical infrastructure has always been a target for warfare, and modern ICS are no exception. Several high-profile ICS disruptions have in fact been attributed to malicious hackers working at the behest of a military or intelligence agency. Looking at Examples of APTs The potential impact of a wartime ICS cyber incident is hard to understate….

By Olivia Gallucci, Cybersecurity Reporter, Cyber Defense Magazine I interviewed approximately sixty industry leaders from over forty companies who attended Black Hat. Although this article series—The Optis—can be read as a traditional Black Hat recap, I specifically highlight twenty-one companies that stand out and whose growth I recommend watching. Rochester Institute of Technology’s Cybersecurity Club, RITSEC, inspired the metrics I used to analyze and rank companies. Specifically, I adopted RITSEC’s motto, “Security Through Community,” while…

A former United Airlines employee has been sent to prison for stealing passengers’ financial data and using it to make fraudulent purchases.  Hayder Lefta, of Manchester, New Hampshire, worked as a customer service representative at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport in 2018 and 2019. Court documents showed that while assisting customers at the airport, the 25-year-old made a copy of their credit card numbers.  Lefta later used these stolen card details to purchase airline flights and meals…

A cyber-attack forced hospitals in West Virginia and Ohio to divert patients to other care providers and work from paper records. Threat actors targeted Memorial Health System with ransomware on the morning of August 15. The assault disrupted the IT systems at nearly all the health system’s 64 clinics and three hospitals – Marietta Memorial, Selby General, and Sistersville General. By midnight on Sunday, the hospitals were turning away patients, except for heart-attack, stroke and trauma patients, and sending them…