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Throwback attack: A Thanksgiving ransomware attack shuts down Baltimore schools

As threat increases, college cybersecurity programs are more in demand

As people count down the days until Thanksgiving, it’s the perfect time to take a look at what happened around this time last year in Baltimore. A year and a half after the Robinhood ransomware…

Threats & Vulnerabilities

Hacking season: Why Cyber Monday presents a cybersecurity nightmare

As Black Friday and Cyber Monday approach, retailers are gearing up for what is predicted to be a holiday season worth around $214 billion in e-commerce sales. They are not alone in making special preparations: In…

Threats & Vulnerabilities

Throwback Attack: Three teens stoke fears of a cyber war with the Solar Sunrise attack

In the throes of a military action, everything is heightened. In February 1998, the U.S. and President Bill Clinton were preparing to bomb Iraq, as the country’s then-President Sadaam Hussein refused to comply with United…

Threats & Vulnerabilities

Throwback Attack: BlackEnergy attacks the Ukrainian power grid

People have come to rely on electricity, and once someone has it, it’s hard to let it go. As winter rapidly approaches, it is easy to understand why. Without electricity, there are no appliances, lights…

Threats & Vulnerabilities

Throwback Attack: An insider releases 265,000 gallons of sewage on the Maroochy Shire

Critical infrastructure is increasingly under attack with major hits on oil pipelines, water treatment facilities and the food and beverage sector all occurring within the last year. Regardless of where the attackers enter from —…

The suply chain is increasingly under threat

Threats & Vulnerabilities

The rise of supply chain attacks

Back in December, Darktrace predicted that supply chain attacks would overtake CEO fraud as a top cybersecurity concern. This year, the importance of supply chains has been brought to the forefront by a series of disruptions hitting…

The project is led by Hany Abdel-Khalik (center) with Yeni Li, a nuclear engineering postdoctoral associate (right) leading the anomaly detection work and third-year nuclear engineering Ph.D. student, Arvind Sundaram, the covert cognizance algorithms implementation.

Education

“Self-aware” algorithm created to ward off hacking attempts

It sounds like a scene from a spy thriller. An attacker gets through the IT defenses of a nuclear power plant and feeds it fake, realistic data, tricking its computer systems and personnel into thinking…

Threats & Vulnerabilities

Throwback Attack: Ransomware hits multiple hospitals in coordinated attack

Threat actors are always on the lookout for pain points — manufacturing systems that can’t afford to go offline, critical infrastructure that can cause disruptions to everyday life or risks to human safety and, unfortunately,…

This image shows a team of robots collaborating to search for and then retrieve lost objects. The use of blockchain technology could enable secure, tamper-proof communication among the robots as they complete their task, according to new research from MIT. Courtesy: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Education

Using blockchain technology to protect robots

Imagine a team of autonomous drones equipped with advanced sensing equipment, searching for smoke as they fly high above the Sierra Nevada mountains. Once they spot a wildfire, these leader robots relay directions to a swarm…

Hacks & Attacks

Throwback Attack: Petya, the red skull of ransomware

When people think of ransomware, they often picture a screen blinking with an ominous skull and crossbones image, indicating that something bad is happening. In fact, search for any ransomware attack, and there’s about a…