The recent REvil ransomware attack has revealed that our computer systems are vulnerable to unknown and surprising pathogens, similar to our vulnerability to Covid-19. The hackers claim that the attack penetrated more than a million workstations, and demanded about $70 million to unlock them. However, the most important question is how the damage could have […]

Beef? Beef?! It’s come to this: a ransomware attack has come between me and my Wendy’s quarter pounder! As much as I’d like to say that there’s nothing to this problem for my favorite fast food lunch, I can’t. A ransomware attack on the world’s largest meat processor, JBS, forced nine US beef plants to […]

May 27, 2021 Coast Guard Academy cadets test their network connection during the 2012 Cyber Defense Exercise (CDX) at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. U.S. Coast Guard photograph Among the many threats and vulnerabilities that come to mind when discussing cybersecurity and risk management, one that immediately comes to mind is […]

On the eve of the Super Bowl in Tampa, a hacker remotely accessed a water treatment system in Oldsmar. He accomplished this by exploiting weaknesses in the water treatment plants security architecture and security best practices. The two weaknesses exploited, as reported by Rick Swearingen, head of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, were that […]