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New York State (WRGB) — Cyber security is on the mind of U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and other officials amid the Russian-Ukraine war.
“There’s an increased risk that Russia will carry out retaliatory cyber attacks, particularly against New York State infrastructure and individuals. We must act quickly to strengthen our cyber defenses to counter any unwarranted and unprovoked Russian aggression here,” said Gillibrand on Monday.“
There has been a cycle across the history of computing, a cycle that has repeated itself multiple times. Engineers and IT architects innovate, and the result is a new technology. They build out a platform, and its adoption reaches critical mass. Not long after that, what was recently a new, cutting-edge technology is used almost universally by enterprises. With infrastructure, this cycle has occurred over the years with mainframes, then with desktops, physical servers and virtual servers. For applications, we went from mainframes to on-premises servers and then the web.
For security teams scrambling to secure their organizations against Log4j exploitation, one of the first and most challenging tasks is understanding where Log4j exists within their environment. Without this understanding, any remediation efforts will be hamstrung from the get-go. Of course, this type of asset management can prove exceedingly difficult as Log4j is represented across thousands of products.For security teams scrambling to secure their organizations against Log4j exploitation, one of the first and most challenging tasks is understanding where Log4j exists within their environment. Without this understanding, any remediation efforts will be hamstrung from the get-go. Of course, this type of asset management can prove exceedingly difficult as Log4j is represented across thousands of products.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – Sanford Health says it was targeted in a cybersecurity incident Wednesday.
Sanford Health President and CEO Bill Gassen tells Dakota News Now that the health system experienced an “attempted cybersecurity incident” and that it’s taking measures to contain the impact.
Gassen says that at this time no known patient, resident, or employee personal or financial information was compromised.
Sanford has notified federal authorities.
Small businesses are bearing the brunt of ransomware attacks, the Senate Judiciary Committee was told Tuesday.
Small businesses make up over half the victims, the committee’s chair Dick Durbin (D-IL) pointed out while Senate Judiciary’s Ranking Minority Member Chuck Grassley put the number at three out of every four:
Officials from the U.S. and China met on Monday to discuss ways to set terms for responsible management of the relationship between the two countries, but the meeting turned testy over cybersecurity and other issues, The Wall Street Journal reports.
While some ransomware gangs have gone silent, many continue to operate, pointing to the challenge authorities face in cracking down on the problem.