Maritime Cyber Priority 2024/25: Tackling a growing cybersecurity threat in an increasingly connected industry

The digitalization of the maritime industry is in full flow. Shipowners, ports, cargo owners and many other stakeholders throughout the value chain are increasingly utilizing connected digital technologies to make shipping greener, safer and more efficient. However, DNV’s new Maritime Read More …

Enhanced Visibility and Hardening Guidance for Communications Infrastructure

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Australian Signals Directorate’s (ASD’s) Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), Canadian Cyber Security Centre (CCCS), and New Zealand’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NZ) warn that Read More …

Major SABS cyberattack raises questions about entity’s leadership

The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) has suffered a major ransomware cyberattack, resulting in critical IT systems going down, Engineering News has learned. This is not the first time the SABS IT infrastructure has been hacked, with previous incidents Read More …

Retail outages drag into second week after Blue Yonder ransomware attack

A ransomware attack on supply chain software giant Blue Yonder continues to cause disruption to the company’s customers, almost two weeks after the outage first began. In a brief update to its cybersecurity incident page on Sunday, Arizona-based Blue Yonder Read More …

Medical testing company LifeLabs failed to protect customer data, report finds

In 2019, a ransomware attack hit LifeLabs, a Canadian medical testing company. The ransomware encrypted the lab results of 15 million Canadians, and personally identifiable information (PII) of 8.6 million people was stolen. After noticing the attack, LifeLabs informed its Read More …

UK Nuclear body opens cyber security hub

A nuclear body has launched a cyber security hub to help protect itself from IT threats. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) opened the centre at Herdus House in Moor Row, near the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria. It said the Group Read More …

Singapore cyber defenders fight simulated attacks on AI-enabled systems in 4-day exercise

More technology is moving onto the cloud – meaning its data is hosted on remote servers rather than on personal devices – and integrating artificial intelligence (AI), which opens it up to new kinds of malicious attacks. To improve Singapore’s Read More …

Greece: Technical issue, not cyber attack, behind Hellenic Revenue Service, National Security Service, and National Police websites downtime

A technical network problem rather than a cyberattack was ultimately responsible for the simultaneous loss of access observed on the afternoon of Thursday, November 14, to websites of ADC and other government agencies. As competent sources told prototheme.gr, after an Read More …