OT Environments Contextualizing the Ransomware Threat Confronting

OT Environments Contextualizing the Ransomware Threat Confronting

Back in early June, the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a fact sheet discussing the rising threat of ransomware to operational technology (OT) assets. This development raises several questions. Why is ransomware a threat to OT environments? And what can organizations do to protect their OT assets against ransomware? To find out, I sat down for a chat with three Tripwire experts: Britney Palmer, account executive here with Tripwire; Lamar Bailey, senior…

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Couple Arrested Over Sale of Nuclear Secrets

Couple Arrested Over Sale of Nuclear Secrets

A married couple from Maryland has been arrested on suspicion of selling secret information about the design of nuclear-powered warships.  Jonathan and Diana Toebbe, both of Annapolis, were arrested in Jefferson County, West Virginia, by the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service on Saturday, October 9.  It is alleged that 42-year-old Naval nuclear engineer Jonathan Toebbe, with the help of his 45-year-old wife, sold information classified as Restricted Data to an undercover FBI agent who they…

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How Test Automation Accelerates Continuous Delivery of Applications

How Test Automation Accelerates Continuous Delivery of Applications

Meeting the testing challenge With today’s pressure on enterprises to digitally transform, continuously delivering quality software has never been more critical. Internal and external digital products, which are built by millions of lines of code, are vital for success. Underpinning this success are enterprise applications capable of stitching core operations together so innovation can thrive. However, every enterprise application is built differently to meet the specific demands of that organization. User workflows, business-critical rules, and…

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58% of all nation-state attacks in the last year were launched by Russian nation-state actors

58% of all nation-state attacks in the last year were launched by Russian nation-state actors

Microsoft revealed that Russia-linked cyberespionage groups are behind the majority of the nation-state cyber attacks on US government agencies. Microsoft revealed that most of the cyber attacks on US government agencies are orchestrated by Russia-linked cyberespionage groups. According to the IT giant, approximately 58% of all nation-state attacks between July 2020 and June 2021 were launched by Russian nation-state actors. According to Microsoft, Russian nation-state actors mainly targeted entities in the United States, Ukraine and the UK. “During…

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US Imprisons Man Who Exploited Children Via Social Media

US Imprisons Man Who Exploited Children Via Social Media

A sexual predator who used social media apps to victimize minors has been sent to prison in the United States. Jacob Blanco, of Fresno, California, used several ruses to manipulate children as young as six years old into producing sexually explicit material and then sharing it with him. Using apps including Musical.ly (now TikTok), Kik and Snapchat, the 29-year-old offender posed as a child modeling agent or pretended to be a minor himself to deceive…

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Learn How to Make Great APIs the Easy Way at DevNet Create

Learn How to Make Great APIs the Easy Way at DevNet Create

Here at DevNet, we really love APIs. (Duh!) And while we hope you enjoy consuming Cisco’s APIs and making awesome integrated solutions with us, if you’ve ever worked on a software project of any complexity you’ve likely been faced with creating your own private/internal (or even public facing) APIs. Putting together a few GET requests and an HTTP listener for a client/server app you control is fairly easy. However, once you start adding components, users,…

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Miercom Test endorses Cisco SD-WAN’s Application Visibility and Control Capabilities – Cisco Blogs

Miercom Test endorses Cisco SD-WAN’s Application Visibility and Control Capabilities – Cisco Blogs

The new paradigm that enterprises deal with includes connecting users to countless applications including business critical applications which may be hosted on-premises or in the cloud. With millions of users worldwide connecting – from many sources, enterprises and service providers have not been able to accurately and completely monitor, report on, and manage service and performance levels of all of these interactions. To reduce network congestion and increase operational efficiency -, customers must be able…

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Hospital Hacker Steals Patients’ Data

Hospital Hacker Steals Patients’ Data

Data belonging to patients of a hospital in New Mexico has been deleted by an unknown cyber-attacker.  The IT network of San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington was breached by an unauthorized individual in September last year. The attack was reported to the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights on June 4 as a network server security incident impacting 68,792 individuals.  In a statement released on October 7, the hospital said that it had…

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Join the Beta for Meraki Webhook Custom Payload Templates

Join the Beta for Meraki Webhook Custom Payload Templates

The Meraki team recently announced Webhook **Custom** Payload Templates, a new way to receive and present network alerts. Learn more and engage with the team in the Meraki Community post, and learn more about the details below. The new Webhook Payload Templates feature is awesome! But we’re getting questions from you like: Can I change the formatting a little? Does this work with my favorite messaging service? Do you support custom authentication headers? Instead of…

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Making Banking Easier with Intelligent Branch – Cisco Blogs

Making Banking Easier with Intelligent Branch – Cisco Blogs

It’s a time of transition and digital transformation in financial services. Whether a retail bank, wealth management firm, credit union, or insurance company with a banking segment, the financial industry is facing dramatic changes on how best to accommodate customers, and what is the appropriate mix between brick-and-mortar bank branches, remote work, self-service ATMs, and digital platforms. Financial institutions are now working to build intelligent branches. The intelligent branch is designed to execute business with…

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