Scenes from PSCR Week–June 3-6, 2014

Public repositories of open source code are a critical part of the software supply chain that many organizations use to build applications. They are therefore an attractive target for adversaries seeking to distribute malware to a mass audience. The latest case in point is a malicious package for distributing Cobalt Strike on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, […]

The US government on Friday released some guidelines on how US states should dole out $42.5 billion for broadband services in rural areas. “Thanks to President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Americans across the country will no longer be held back by a lack of high-speed Internet access,” US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo declared in a statement. However, those […]

  Dereck Orr, chief of the Public Safety Communication Research (PSCR) division within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), discusses the various offerings at the PSCR Annual Stakeholder Meeting, which will be conducted June 7-9 in San Diego at the Westin San Diego Gaslamp Quarter. For the first time in three years, the […]

The worlds of IT, operational technology (OT), and industrial control systems (ICS) are converging, increasing attack surfaces and exposing vulnerabilities. At the same time, the lines between digital and physical supply chains are blurring, and measures must be taken by organizations to ensure that security posture remains strong. As the pandemic and remote work have […]