Jen Easterly, former NSA official and Morgan Stanley vet, will take up the lead at CISA as the ransomware scourge rages on. [...]

Security vulnerabilities in the ERP platform could allow attackers to tamper with or sabotage victims' business-critical processes and to intercept data. [...]

Nate Warfield, CTO of Prevailion and former Microsoft security researcher, discusses the many security challenges and failings plaguing this industry. [...]

Kerry Matre, senior director at Mandiant, discusses the appropriate metrics to use to measure SOC and analyst performance, and how MTTR leads to bad behavior. [...]

A survey from GSMA and Trend Micro shows a concerning lack of security capabilities for private 5G networks (think factories, smart cities, industrial IoT, utilities and more). [...]

A DarkSide doppelganger mounts a fraud campaign aimed at extorting nearly $4 million from each target. [...]

An hour-long outage hit airlines, banks and the Hong Kong Stock exchange. It's thought to have been caused by a DDoS mitigation service. [...]

"We hereby keep a right (sic) to forward all of the relevant documentation and data to military agencies of our choise (sic)" REvil reportedly wrote. [...]

Joseph Carson, chief security scientist and advisory CISO at ThycoticCentrify, discusses best practices for securing healthcare data against the modern threat landscape. [...]

Pandemic and evolving IT demands are having a major, negative impact on CISOs' mental health, a survey found. [...]

According to news reports, Colonial Pipeline paid the cybergang known as DarkSide the ransom it demanded in return for a decryption key. [...]

Paper ballots and source-code transparency are recommended to improve election security. [...]

Security researchers mull possible perpetrators of the attack, and warned that the incident could be a harbinger of things to come. [...]

The San Diego-based hospital system diverted ambulances to other medical centers after a suspected ransomware attack. [...]

Our new eBook goes beyond the status quo to take a look at the evolution of ransomware and what to prepare for next. [...]

Sivan Tehila, cybersecurity strategist at Perimeter 81, discusses climate change and the cyber-resilience lessons companies should take away from dealing with the pandemic. [...]

A 100-day race to boost cybersecurity will rely on incentives rather than regulation, the White House said. [...]

How this class of vulnerabilities will impact millions connected devices and potentially wreck the day of IT security professionals. [...]

Current and former administration sources say the nation-state attackers were able to read the Homeland Security Secretary's emails, among others. [...]

New research shows that while all sectors are at risk, 70 percent of manufacturing apps have vulnerabilities. [...]

Unpatched Schneider Electric PowerLogic ION/PM smart meters are open to dangerous attacks. [...]

Espionage attacks exploiting the just-patched remote code-execution security bugs in Microsoft Exchange servers are quickly spreading. [...]

The FBI has warned that telephony denial-of-service attacks are taking aim at emergency dispatch centers, which could make it impossible to call for police, fire or ambulance services. [...]

Researchers discovered credentials for the Oldsmar water treatment facility in the massive compilation of data from breaches posted just days before the attack. [...]

A threat actor remotely accessed the IT system of the water treatment facility of Oldsmar and raised the levels of sodium hydroxide in the water, an action that was quickly noticed and remediated. [...]