CAMP WILLIAMS, Utah – Hundreds of military and civilian cyber defense specialists converged on Utah Tuesday as the largest unclassified cyber defense exercise began at Camp Williams. As we learned earlier this year with the Colonial Pipeline and the JBS meatpacking plant computer attacks, cybersecurity is an ever-growing concern for the public. About 800 people from around the country came to Utah for Cyber Shield 2021. It’s a major event for Camp Williams. “What we are doing here at Cyber Shield gives our soldiers real-world experience,” said Lt. Col. Brad Rhodes. The Army National Guard has stepped up its cybersecurity training. Hundreds of military members from across the U.S. are training on defense-focused tactical exercises. “Depending on which open-source material you read, China has 50 – 100,000 cyber operators. They’re building capacity to attack and do incursions and properties around the world,” Rhodes said. “So, it is very important to understand the nation-state actors out there are building these capacities and it’s why we need to build these capacities.” Rhodes has decades of experience in the military. He said the importance of cyber security has grown to the top of the list of priorities. “Inside the military itself, across the department of defense, we are actually a pretty small cadre. Having been in Cyber Com and working some of those missions out there, I will argue we are probably some of the most capable and talented cyber force,” he said. The Cyber Shield training brought in people from cyber departments with large companies like Boeing, Microsoft and Utah’s Pluralsight. “We look at what we are doing here for simulation. We start at website defacement, then...
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Following last month’s ransomware attack against the world’s largest meatpacker JBS, experts in the UK are also taking closure look at how vulnerable the UK’s food supply chains are to cyber attacks. A leading food expert has warned that the Britain’s food supply is highly vulnerable to attacks from threat actors, and warns that the government needs to put emphasis on domestic production to boost food security in the country. “If anyone wanted to really damage the British food system, they could just take out the satellites,” Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City, University of London, told . “Our ‘just-in-time’ system is entirely dependent on computerised logistics. When you pay for your food at the checkout, the computer isn’t just adding up the bill, it’s reordering the stock.” Last month’s attack on JBS led to increased pressure on a food-supply chain that is already under strain due to high transportation costs, labour shortages and production constraints. The attack forced the company to shut down several plants in the US and Australia, impacting beef markets. While JBS downplayed the impact, it admitted that it had paid $11 million in ransom to the hackers. In recent years, experts have drawn attention to the large number of food companies still using legacy computer systems as well as outdated software that are vulnerable to cyber attacks. They advise that the government need to enforce cyber security standards in the food industry in the same way it enforces food safety standards. Lang’s warning comes as the UK government is due to publish the second part of its national food strategy. The first...
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review edition for the week ending Friday July 9th. From my studio in Toronto, I’m Howard Solomon, contributing writer on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. With me today to discuss events is Dinah Davis, Canadian-based vice-president of research and development at Arctic Wolf. We’ll chat in a few minutes. But first a look back at some of the news from the past seven days: The big news, of course, was the huge ransomware attack that spread to some 1,500 companies using or customer of managed service providers using the Kaseya VSA remote IT monitoring product. This attack raises a lot of questions about the readiness of organizations to face cyber attacks, and whether this attack could have been worse. Dinah and I will tackle these and other questions. Microsoft has created patches for a security vulnerability in Windows print spooler called PrintNightmare, which allows an attacker to infiltrate networks through a print server. Administrators are urged to install the patch immediately, although there are reports it doesn’t completely close the hole. Dinah and I will talk about this. Separately, Microsoft urged Windows administrators to update PowerShell to close a serious vulnerability. Police in Morocco arrested a veteran cybercriminal who allegedly went by the name Dr. Hex and attacked or helped attack French telecom companies, banks and corporations. He is believed to have created and sold phishing and credit card theft kits. The investigation was the joint work of authorities in Morocco, the Interpol police co-operative and a Singapore-based threat intelligence company called Group-IB. U.S.-based insurance brokerage Arthur J. Gallagher has now acknowledged...
Full or partial cloud migration has been all the rage for a few years. The worldwide public cloud services market is predicted to grow 17% in 2020, to a total of $266.4 billion. According to Gartner, 35% of CIOs are decreasing their investment in their infrastructure and data center, while 33% are increasing their investment in cloud services or solutions. But there’s a catch. Gartner also predicts that: “through 2020, 80% of organizations will overshoot their cloud IaaS budgets due to a lack of cost optimization approaches.” When big data cloud migration is still in its early stages, it all seems easy-going. Operating a data center in the cloud is always cheaper than on dedicated on-premises servers. But, eventually, when enterprise IT organizations receive their first few cloud bills, they are often shocked and puzzled. Compared to their legacy stance, they suddenly cannot understand what they are spending on or why. Big data cloud invoices can add up to hundreds of thousands more dollars than expected. When Bain & Company asked more than 350 IT decision-makers what aspects of their cloud deployment had been the most disappointing, the top complaint was that the cost of ownership had either remained the same or increased. Why the lack of cost optimization approaches? Because IT operations are in a visibility crisis: In order to optimize costs, IT operations require full-stack visibility to optimize application performance, support SLAs, uncover infrastructure inefficiencies, and minimize MTTR (mean time to repair). What makes this a daunting task, however, is the sheer size of modern big data clusters, running to thousands of nodes. Add to that the...
The COVID-19 pandemic causes a huge economic and social disruption which is devastating. The rapid disruption to businesses around the world has left organizations and companies struggling to sustain business and security continuity. VHR takes a deeper look into how the pandemic has affected the Cyber Security sector and the changes that have had to be made in order to adapt to “new times”. Cyber Safe Home Working The boundaries imposed by governments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have made employees manage their work from home. As a result, technology has become even more important in both our professional and personal lives. However, this eruption has caused an increase in both the probability and impact of cyberattacks. Ever since the beginning of the pandemic, the internet plays a huge role in making things simpler for people, allowing them to stay connected during periods of extended isolation and allowing people to manage their business online. Because of this, the nature of the threat changes to a great extent. Despite this increase in technology need, it is noticeable that a lot of organisation’s still do not present a cyber-safe remote-working environment to their employees. Hackers, nowadays, come up with new techniques to exploit new digital services and remote working setups. A rising number of online bad actors have initiated malware attacks on workers, healthcare facilities, and the unemployed. According to OpSec Security, some of the biggest targets of phishing were webmail sites and SaaS, accounting for around 34% of all attacks, trailed by 19% of financial institutions and 13% of the payment sector. However, this results in creating a lot of...
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