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Halliburton Confirms Network Disruption After Suspected Cyber Attack

SecureWorld News

The incident has raised concerns within the energy sector, as Halliburton plays a crucial role in global oilfield operations, and any disruption to its networks could have far-reaching implications. The potential cyberattack on Halliburton underscores the growing threat to critical infrastructure and companies within the energy sector.

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How Will $1.9 Billion for Cybersecurity Protect American Infrastructure?

CyberSecurity Insiders

Division D: Energy: Title 1: Subtitle B: Cybersecurity.

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OT Cybersecurity Framework?

Centraleyes

These systems are integral to critical infrastructure sectors such as energy, critical manufacturing, transportation systems, government facilities, emergency services, healthcare, and utilities, and must ensure the safety, reliability, and efficiency of operations. The platform enables organizations to reach manageable risk levels.

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Critical Success Factors to Widespread Deployment of IoT

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Electric grid utilities are deploying smart meters to better correspond to consumers energy demands while lowering costs. Tue, 02/16/2021 - 16:33. Digital technology and connected IoT devices have proliferated across industries and into our daily lives.

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Risky Business Aging critical infrastructure networks and advanced attacks

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

When a network is breached and the data is not protected in transit, it leaves not just the data plane vulnerable, but the control plane and the management plane, essentially handing over access to the entire system. Data Manipulation. Modernizing Critical Infrastructure.

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Monitoring the dark web to identify threats to energy sector organizations

Security Affairs

Searchlight Cyber researchers warn of threat actors that are offering on the dark web access to energy sector organizations. Dark web intelligence firm Searchlight Cyber published a report that analyzes how threat actors in the dark web prepare their malicious operations against energy organizations.

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How AI Could Write Our Laws

Schneier on Security

Big energy companies expect action whenever there is a move to end drilling leases for federal lands, in exchange for the tens of millions they contribute to congressional reelection campaigns. We should expect these techniques to get better and their utilization to grow, just as we’ve seen in so many other domains.