The UK’s Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has started legal action against the controversial Sellafield nuclear waste facility due to years of alleged cybersecurity breaches. Last December, as we previously reported, claims surfaced about Russian and Chinese hackers planting malware on the nuclear reactor site’s systems as far back as 2015. The fear is that…

The report emphasizes the direct involvement of cybersecurity experts within these committees as a critical factor. Companies with cybersecurity experts on either audit or specialized risk committees achieve an average security performance rating of 700, significantly higher than the 580 rating for companies with such experts only on the general board. The report also highlights…

Cyberattacks on utilities more than doubled from 2020 to 2022. It’s likely the case that the rapid growth of connected assets is outstripping security capabilities. One analyst firm predicts that by 2026, industrial organizations will have more than 15 billion new and legacy assets connected to the cloud, internet, and 5G. Security and IT leaders…

“Firstly, people may have both personal devices and work devices but device management or policy from the IT team might mean each device is equally able to access corporate resources, or there is no such policy, so employees would just use whichever is most convenient,” Lohokare said. “The second big reason would be the continued…

However, the latest court documents indicate that Meta’s IAAP program expanded to target encrypted analytics traffic from competitors beyond Snapchat, including YouTube and Amazon. Allegations suggest that Facebook employees developed customized client and server-side code based on Onavo’s VPN proxy app and server stack. The code included a client-side “kit” that installed a “root” certificate…