Risk Management January 10, 2025

Is the water safe? The state of critical infrastructure cybersecurity

4 min read - On September 25, CISA issued a stark reminder that critical infrastructure remains a primary target for cyberattacks. Vulnerable systems in industrial sectors, including water utilities, continue to be exploited due to poor cyber hygiene practices. Using unsophisticated methods like brute-force…

News December 23, 2024

Ransomware attack on Rhode Island health system exposes data of hundreds of thousands

3 min read - Rhode Island is grappling with the fallout of a significant ransomware attack that has compromised the personal information of hundreds of thousands of residents enrolled in the state’s health and social services programs. Officials confirmed the attack on the RIBridges…

News December 16, 2024

FBI, CISA issue warning for cross Apple-Android texting

3 min read - CISA and the FBI recently released a joint statement that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is targeting commercial telecommunications infrastructure as part of a significant cyber espionage campaign. As a result, the agencies released a joint guide, Enhanced Visibility…

News December 9, 2024

Zero-day exploits underscore rising risks for internet-facing interfaces

3 min read - Recent reports confirm the active exploitation of a critical zero-day vulnerability targeting Palo Alto Networks’ Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) management interfaces. While Palo Alto’s swift advisories and mitigation guidance offer a starting point for remediation, the broader implications of such vulnerabilities…

Data Protection October 18, 2024

What’s behind the 51% drop in ransomware attacks?

4 min read - In a world where cyber threats feel omnipresent, a recent report has revealed some unexpected good news: ransomware attacks on state and local governments have dropped by 51% in 2024. Still, this decline does not signal the end of the…

Risk Management August 23, 2024

How Paris Olympic authorities battled cyberattacks, and won gold

3 min read - The Olympic Games Paris 2024 was by most accounts a highly successful Olympics. Some 10,000 athletes from 204 nations competed in 329 events over 16 days. But before and during the event, authorities battled Olympic-size cybersecurity threats coming from multiple…

News August 16, 2024

The cyberattack cycle: First comes outage, next comes phishing

3 min read - Phishing attacks in the wake of a service, system or network outage are always a danger. For example, during the massive PlayStation Network outage in 2011, phishers took advantage of user confusion and frustration. Intruders sent phishing emails pretending to…

Risk Management July 30, 2024

Surging data breach disruption drives costs to record highs

4 min read - Security teams are getting better at detecting and responding to breach incursions, but attackers are inflicting greater pain on organizations’ bottom lines. IBM’s recent Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024 found the global average breach hit a record $4.88…

News June 24, 2024

Poland spending $760 million on cybersecurity after attack

3 min read - Visitors to the Polish Press Agency (PAP) website on May 31 at 2 p.m. Polish time were met with an unusual message. Instead of the typical daily news, the state-run newspaper had supposedly published a story announcing that a partial…

News May 8, 2024

Change Healthcare attack expected to exceed $1 billion in costs

3 min read - The impact of the recent Change Healthcare cyberattack is unprecedented — and so are the costs. Rick Pollack, President and CEO of the American Hospital Association, stated, “The Change Healthcare cyberattack is the most significant and consequential incident of its…