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GUEST ESSAY: The three horsemen of cyber risks: misinformation, disinformation and fake news

The Last Watchdog

Such a transformation however, comes with its own set of risks. Misleading information has emerged as one of the leading cyber risks in our society, affecting political leaders, nations, and people’s lives, with the COVID-19 pandemic having only made it worse.

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MY TAKE: Cyber attacks on industrial controls, operational technology have only just begun

The Last Watchdog

Monitoring and management of many existing industrial control systems’ (ICS) embedded devices, like pumps, valves and turbines, are ancient in technological terms. At the operational level, critical industrial sectors are dependent on technology developed 10 to 15 years ago and that aren’t regularly patched.

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Cyber Attack on New York Transport Authority

CyberSecurity Insiders

New York Metropolitan Transport Authority, well known shortly as MTA was reportedly hit by a cyber attack in April this year and sources report that the incident was limited only to some systems and no employee or customer info was compromised. .

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NEW TECH: Trend Micro flattens cyber risks — from software development to deployment

The Last Watchdog

Thus the urgency for organizations to put all excuses aside and embrace stricter cyber hygiene practices could not be any higher. Cybersecurity technology is far more advanced today than it was five years ago, or even two years ago. Something needs to be done to flatten the cyber risk curve. I’ll keep watch.

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Drilling Rigs in deepwater are vulnerable to Cyber Attacks

CyberSecurity Insiders

A study conducted by a cybersecurity firm named Naval Dome has discovered that most of the drilling rigs operating in deep waters are vulnerable to cyber attacks. Naval Dome researchers found in their two-year-old study that various companies involved in oil business were mitigating cyber risks with great care.

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Online businesses that are most targeted by cyber attacks

CyberSecurity Insiders

On the security front, a research carried out by Cybersecurity Ventures has predicted that the cyber attacks on online business will bring an estimated loss of $6 trillion to companies operating across the globe by 2021 and the gaming industry is said to be impacted the most.

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Russian cyber attack on US mobile customers

CyberSecurity Insiders

He asked all the technology CEOs, and the business heads to bolster their in-house cybersecurity measures to mitigate the cyber risks emerging from Moscow. Cyber Attack on Verizon’s network and generating spam from the users’ own phone numbers needs a lot of technical expertise of international standards.