CEOs Could Be Held Personally Liable for Cyberattacks that Kill

A full 75 percent of top brass at companies will be personally on the hook for cyber-physical security (CSP) incidents by 2024 – especially those that involve fatalities. That’s according to the Gartner research firm, which predicted this week that Read More …

Diving Into End-to-End Deep Learning for Cybersecurity

The application of artificial intelligence (AI) across various industries has undeniably made significant improvements in the digital era. With the capability to interpret and make complex decisions based on data, AI technologies have enabled tasks or processes to function with Read More …

Former Uber CSO charged for 2016 hack cover-up

Uber’s former chief security officer was charged on Thursday for covering up the company’s 2016 security breach, during which hackers stole the personal details of 57 million Uber customers and the details of 600,000 Uber drivers. Prosecutors in Northern California Read More …

UK cyber security agency creates tool to test what would happen if you were hit by cyber attack while working from home

The UK’s official cyber security agency have created a tool to practise being cyber attacked. It has been launched as people continue to work from home in an attempt to stop the spread of coronavirus, often doing so over personal Read More …

Cyber experts urge Australia to develop local capability to defend against hackers

Cyber experts have urged the federal government to become less reliant on overseas businesses, technologies and expertise for its defences against hackers as it puts the finishing touches on the nation’s new cyber security strategy. Foreign providers are responsible for Read More …

Configuring a Windows Domain to Dynamically Analyze an Obfuscated Lateral Movement Tool

Researchers at FireEye recently encountered a large obfuscated malware sample that offered several interesting analysis challenges. It used virtualization that prevented us from producing a fully-deobfuscated memory dump for static analysis. Statically analyzing a large virtualized sample can take anywhere Read More …

Ripple20 Vulnerability Mitigation Best Practices

On June 16th, the Department of Homeland Security and CISA ICS-CERT issued a critical security advisory warning covering multiple newly discovered vulnerabilities affecting Internet-connected devices manufactured by multiple vendors. This set of 19 vulnerabilities in a low-level TCP/IP software library developed by Treck has Read More …

Factory Security Problems from an IT Perspective (Part 3): Practical approach for stable operation

This article is the last in a series that discusses the challenges that IT departments face when they are assigned the task of overseeing cybersecurity in factories and implementing measures to overcome these challenges. As explained in the first two Read More …

Forward-looking security analysis of smart factories [Part 2] Security risks of industrial application stores

On May 11, 2020, Trend Micro released a paper showing the results of proof-of-concept research on new security risks associated with smart factories. In this series of 5 columns, based on the results of this research, we will look at Read More …

Factory Security Problems from an IT Perspective (Part 2): People, processes, and technology

This article is the second in a series that discusses the challenges that IT departments face when they are assigned the task of overseeing cybersecurity in factories and implementing measures to overcome these challenges. Before beginning to consider countermeasures, in Read More …