Incidents like Volt Typhoon and the dramatic increase of ransomware attacks against U.S. critical infrastructure is spurring new White House action. President Joe Biden today signed National Security Memorandum-22 to codify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency’s roles in overseeing and working with critical infrastructure providers, and to bring the analytics capabilities of the Intelligence Community
Some 20,000 additional U.S. identities were unmasked in investigations that involved a controversial spying tool in 2023 compared to the prior year, motivated by increased attempts from hackers to break into and cripple American critical infrastructure, according to a new intelligence community release documenting spy agency activities. Over 30,000 U.S. persons, companies or other entities
President Biden today signed a new national security memorandum (NSM) that aims to better protect U.S. critical infrastructure sectors by enlisting U.S. intelligence agencies to ramp up their sharing of threat data across multiple levels of government and with private-sector critical infrastructure providers. The new NSM also places additional emphasis on creating “minimum security and
In a remarkable achievement, Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited (TSSNL) has once again secured the prestigious Vanguard Crude Oil Infrastructure Security Award for the year 2023. Related News The private pipeline security surveillance company, led by High Chief (Dr.) Government Ekpemupolo, widely known as Tompolo, received the honour in recognition of its outstanding efforts in
UnitedHealth Group confirmed that the BlackCat/Alphv ransomware group breached Change Healthcare in February by using compromised credentials for a Citrix remote access portal that did not have multifactor authentication enabled. On Monday, a prepared statement from UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty, titled “Examining the Change Healthcare Cyberattack,” was released ahead of Wednesday’s House Energy and
For decades DevOps teams have been under pressure to do four things: make software faster, make it cheaper, keep it secure, and accelerate time to market. But with fewer engineering resources, enterprises that use Java must find a way to speed up application innovation and fortify application security across their entire Java estate more efficiently.
Israeli cloud security companies Aqua Security and Orca Security announced on Tuesday a new partnership which will see them integrate between their platforms for joint customers. The integration will allow clients to receive multi-cloud visibility and security provided by the Orca platform combined with multi-and hybrid cloud runtime protection for cloud native workloads offered by
The UK’s Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act aims to make net-connected consumer gear more secure. British lawmakers want to stop the sale of insecure devices. In addition to banning insecure passwords, says the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act (PSTI), vendors must say how long the device will be supported. And device makers must