4 ways to keep the cybersecurity conversation going after the crisis has passed

Joe Biden last night declared “America is back” as he arrived in Britain for his first trip abroad as US president. The US president also declared that he wanted to see Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, face-to-face to “let him know what I want him to know.

Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service Authorities Target Health Sector Ransom Gang’s IT Infrastructure Mihir Bagwe • September 6, 2021     GNCCB has deployed a “splash screen” on seized domains (Source Garda.ie) The Irish law enforcement body, the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau, has conducted a “significant disruption operation,” targeting the IT…

Israel allegedly takes responsibility for Iran cyberattack – IT Security News 12. April 2021 Iran’s main nuclear facility suffered a cyberattack on Sunday, leading to a large scale blackout at Natanz, which Israel now appears to be taking responsibility for. Tehran’s nuclear energy chief described the attack as an act of…

The Boston Public Library (BPL) has disclosed today that its network was hit by a cyberattack on Wednesday, leading to a system-wide technical outage. BPL serves almost 4 million visitors per year through its central library and twenty-five neighborhood branches, as well as millions more online.  It is the third-largest public library in the United States behind the…

Muhammad Fahd, a 35-year-old Pakistani national, has been sentenced to 12 years of prison in the United States for his role in a scheme that involved illegally unlocking AT&T phones and hacking into the telecoms giant’s systems. The scheme started in 2012, when Fahd and others recruited AT&T call center employees for help in unlocking…

The two-count indictment, which was returned in May and kept under seal until now, charges Ding Xiaoyang, Cheng Qingmin, and Zhu Yunmin were officers with the Hainan State Security Department, a provincial branch of China’s Ministry of State Security, or MSS. A fourth charged individual, Wu Shurong, was charged as a computer hacker who created…