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February 12, 2021

Hacker Breached Florida Treatment Plant To Poison The Water Supply
We have to get back to the basics – re-evaluate and rebuild security protections from the ground up.

The incident at the Oldsmar, Florida water treatment plant is a reminder that our nation’s critical infrastructure is continually at risk; not only from nation-state attackers but also from malicious actors with unknown motives and goals. Our dependency on critical infrastructure – power grids, utilities, water supplies, communications, financial services, emergency services, etc. – on a daily basis emphasizes the need to ensure the systems are defended against any adversary. Proactive

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The incident at the Oldsmar, Florida water treatment plant is a reminder that our nation’s critical infrastructure is continually at risk; not only from nation-state attackers but also from malicious actors with unknown motives and goals. Our dependency on critical infrastructure – power grids, utilities, water supplies, communications, financial services, emergency services, etc. – on a daily basis emphasizes the need to ensure the systems are defended against any adversary. Proactive security measures are crucial to safeguard critical infrastructure systems when perimeter defenses have been compromised or circumvented. We have to get back to the basics – re-evaluate and rebuild security protections from the ground up.

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January 05, 2021

Cyber Security Predictions 2021: Experts’ Responses
The global pandemic is still top of mind, affecting everyone in some way.
Significant increase in ransomware and specifically vaccine related ransomware. The global pandemic is still top of mind, affecting everyone in some way. With vaccines in the ready, there will be an increase in phishing and scams related to ‘getting priority’ for the vaccine with payment and, on the flip side, it presents a tempting target for counter programming from anti-vaxxers and others spreading misinformation and disinformation.
 
September 04, 2020

Slack Desktop App Vulnerability – Expert Source
It’s important to ensure users know how to segregate corporate use from personal and verify all clients are up-to-date.
A remote code execution of this type could easily make its way into a corporate environment. With the increased utilization and reliance on collaboration and communications platforms, such as Slack to support remote working and its popularity for social use, it’s important to ensure users know how to segregate corporate use from personal and verify all clients are up-to-date.
August 18, 2020

“GlueBall” Microsoft Windows Spoofing Vulnerability – Expert Source
Organizations need to ensure they know what is installed on their systems.
Code signing is a means to validate the authenticity of an executable – ensuring the code being installed hasn’t been tampered with. If this is bypassed, then malicious attackers have a direct route to the system. Organizations need to ensure they know what is installed on their systems and what their users have access to in order to prevent an app with a spoofed signature from slipping in. If they haven’t already, patch now and run vulnerability scans on all systems regularly.