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CrowdStrike snafu was a ‘dress rehearsal’ for critical infrastructure disruptions, CISA director says

LAS VEGAS — For Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly the doomed CrowdStrike software update that took global IT systems and networks offline last month holds a “big lesson” for critical infrastructure. “The CrowdStrike incident was such a terrible incident,” Easterly said Wednesday during a media briefing at Black Hat, but “it was a useful […]

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Fortune 50 company pays record-breaking $75M ransomware demand

A Fortune 50 company paid $75 million to its cyberattackers earlier this year, greatly exceeding any other confirmed ransom payment in history. The beneficiary of the payout is an outfit called Dark Angels. And Dark Angels isn’t just effective — in some ways, the gang turns so much of what we thought we knew about […]

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CrowdStrike outage renews supply-chain concerns, federal officials say

Federal officials said the global IT outage stemming from a faulty CrowdStrike software update is raising prior concerns about the security of the software supply chain. The U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report Tuesday noting the July 19 outage, which led to the disruption of 8.5 million Microsoft Windows systems. The CrowdStrike incident resurrected concerns […]

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House GOP looks at transportation regulations in light of Chevron doctrine ruling

In the wake of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that undermines federal agencies’ rulemaking authority, two U.S. House Republicans are requesting information on Biden administration-era actions that could be affected by the court’s decision. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves, R-Mo., and Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., outlined their requests in July […]

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Feds warn of North Korean cyberattacks on US critical infrastructure

A long-known cyber-espionage group working on behalf of North Korea’s foreign intelligence service is systematically stealing technical information and intellectual property from organizations in the US and other countries to advance its own nuclear and military programs. The group — which security vendors track variously as Andariel, Silent Chollima, Onyx Sleet, and Stonefly — is […]

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CrowdStrike blames crash on buggy security-content update

A buggy “security content configuration update” to CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensor, which is aimed at gathering telemetry on novel threat techniques for Windows, has been confirmed as the root cause of the problem that crashed computers around the world on July 19, and is still having an impact on global IT teams, the vendor says. CrowdStrike — which has […]

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Flood-monitoring product aims to make tracking flood damage more efficient

The amount of flooding in the U.S. has been rising since the 1950s, with damages from floods costing the U.S. an estimated $180 billion every year, a recent Senate report found. A new flood response data product launched by Floodbase is designed to help governments track flood damage and flood severity in near-real time to enable a swifter, more […]

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CISA takedown of Ivanti systems is a wake-up call

In the wake of the attack on Ivanti’s VPN software, which prompted decisive action from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), what can we learn? This incident raises new questions about exploit techniques, organizational response to security breaches, and the skyrocketing cost of downtime. First, let’s break down what happened. From what’s been disclosed, the vulnerabilities […]

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Supreme Court ruling on Chevron doctrine may upend future cybersecurity regulation

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling Friday to overturn the Chevron doctrine could have major implications on the cybersecurity regulatory landscape at a time when federal agencies have enacted significant requirements designed to strengthen incident reporting and meet baseline security standards. The ruling will likely lead to new legal challenges against recent cybersecurity regulatory measures, including the 2023 […]

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Addressing misinformation in critical-infrastructure security

The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, Md., in late March sent shockwaves through the country. Almost immediately, there was widespread speculation and conspiracy theories regarding its cause, including fears of a cyberattack. Although investigations ruled out deliberate sabotage, the incident raised public concern about the vulnerability of physical infrastructure. Some members of Congress even called for further […]

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CrowdStrike snafu was a ‘dress rehearsal’ for critical infrastructure disruptions, CISA director says

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Fortune 50 company pays record-breaking $75M ransomware demand

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CrowdStrike outage renews supply-chain concerns, federal officials say

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House GOP looks at transportation regulations in light of Chevron doctrine ruling

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Feds warn of North Korean cyberattacks on US critical infrastructure

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CrowdStrike blames crash on buggy security-content update

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Flood-monitoring product aims to make tracking flood damage more efficient

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CISA takedown of Ivanti systems is a wake-up call

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Supreme Court ruling on Chevron doctrine may upend future cybersecurity regulation

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Addressing misinformation in critical-infrastructure security

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