Insurers Urged to Stress Test Cyber Portfolios for Russian Attack Potential March 7, 2022 By Chad Hemenway Cyber risk and analytics firm CyberCube said it has seen cyber attacks on Ukrainian government services, infrastructure, and other industries...
Hacking Risk Shadows U.S. Business as Russia Threatens Critics February 25, 2022 By Jack Gillum A swath of major American businesses — from major banks to utility companies — is preparing for possible cyberattacks against...
New York Governor Plans Center to Coordinate Public, Private Cybersecurity February 25, 2022 By Marina Villeneuve New York wants to improve its cybersecurity defenses and will open a joint operations center in the coming months to...
North Dakota Governor Calls For Increased Cybersecurity February 18, 2022 By James MacPherson Local governments should refrain from raising property taxes and lawmakers need to invest more to guard against ever-increasing cybersecurity attacks,...
Tripwire for Real War? Cyber’s ‘Fuzzy’ Rules of Engagement February 16, 2022 By Frank Bajak President Joe Biden couldn’t have been more blunt about the risks of cyberattacks spinning out of control. “If we end...
Criminal Indictments Are Major — But Not Only — Tool of U.S. Cyber Defense Agencies January 20, 2022 By Eric Tucker The FBI and other federal agencies are increasingly looking to counter cyber threats through tools other than criminal indictments, the...
Corporations That Fake Social Responsibility at Greater Risk of Cyber Attacks January 6, 2022 Corporations that do not take their vows to address environmental, cultural, social and political issues seriously could be putting a...
Germanna Community College Launches First High School Cybersecurity Class December 28, 2021 By Adele Uphaus The 10 students in Stephen Tate’s cybersecurity fundamentals class are unwitting multitaskers. In addition to preparing to pass the Computing...
Ransomware Attacks Not High-Profile or Front Page News But Still Happening Frequently December 21, 2021 By Eric Tucker and Alan Suderman In the months since President Joe Biden warned Russia’s Vladimir Putin that he needed to crack down on ransomware gangs...
Google Sues Russians for Alleged ‘Borderless’ Organized Cyber Crime Operation December 9, 2021 By Jamie Tarabay Alphabet Inc.’s Google is suing two Russian nationals it claims are part of a criminal enterprise that has silently infiltrated...