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Digital Defense: Cybersecurity and the Wendy’s Hack
/by RedSealFOODABLE WEBTV NETWORK | July 9, 2016
Fast food chain Wendy’s is the industry’s latest cyberattack victim. In fact, more than 1,000 of Wendy’s 6,500 locations across the United States were hit in a widespread credit/debit card hack.
It’s not an uncommon scenario: malware infects network; over a long period of time, said malware morphs, and spreads broadly and deeply throughout the network. It’s almost unavoidable these days, but a good digital defense can help.
“Cyberattacks are so advanced these days that if a hacker sets his sights on your network, you can bet he’ll get in,” said Ray Rothrock, CEO of RedSeal, a cybersecurity company. “Being prepared when they get in is the essence of resilience.”
EU Parliament Approves New Cybersecurity Rules
/by RedSealPOWER | July 8, 2016
The European Union (EU) parliament on July 6 approved the first community-wide rules designed to bolster cybersecurity throughout the EU.
According to the official statement, the new law “lays down security and reporting obligations for ‘operators of essential services’ in sectors such as energy, transport, health, banking and drinking water supply. EU member states will have to identify entities in these fields using specific criteria, e.g. whether the service is critical for society and the economy and whether an incident would have significant disruptive effects on the provision of that service.”
Let Legacy IT Systems Just Die
/by RedSealSIGNAL | July 8, 2016
Federal agencies need to address their aging legacy systems and need to do it now. The situation is so dire that some systems are more than 50 years old and running on 8-inch floppy disks, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office.
Cybersecurity Skill Shortage Increases Risk
/by RedSealSECURITY INFOWATCH | July 8, 2016
It was not a good day for the SOC.
Warnings had been emerging over the past few days, but none of them had resulted in crisp defensive action. The team was scrambling, and activity was extreme.
But nothing was happening. No one had seen anything like this before. It was pretty likely that this was a new, active attack, but what exactly was happening? What was the attack vector? What was the target?
No one had seen anything like this before.
Liberal Arts Supporter Ray Rothrock Named Distinguished Alumnus
/by RedSealTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | July 6, 2016
One of the marks of a great leader is humility—a trait manifested by Ray Rothrock ’77, one of the 2016 Distinguished Alumnus Award recipients. Given jointly by Texas A&M University and The Association of Former Students, this award recognizes Aggies for their professional excellence as well as their service to Texas A&M and their local communities.
Why 334M People Should Care About Friday, July 1
/by RedSealINFORMATION SECURITY BUZZ | July 1, 2016
Utility companies nationwide are angst-ing about Friday. Not because it’s a long weekend, but because July 1 marks the end of the extended deadline for compliance – imposed by the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) – with NERC’s(N. American Electric Reliability Corp.) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) V5 standards.
Why is this important?
Cyber Resilience Protects Medical Data
/by RedSealBUSINESS INSURANCE | June 19, 2016
Health care organizations are becoming resilient in the face of cyber attacks as hackers attempt to access sensitive patient information.
Experts from Zurich North America and RedSeal Inc., a Sunnyvale, California-based cyber security firm, discussed how health care providers, insurers and affiliated companies can bounce back when data breaches are discovered.
The Chinese Hackers in the Back Office
/by RedSealNEW YORK TIMES | June 11, 2016
BELLEVILLE, Wis. — Drive past the dairy farms, cornfields and horse pastures here and you will eventually arrive at Cate Machine & Welding, a small-town business run by Gene and Lori Cate and their sons. For 46 years, the Cates have welded many things — fertilizer tanks, jet-fighter parts, cheese molds, even a farmer’s broken glasses.
And like many small businesses, they have a dusty old computer humming away in the back office. On this one, however, an unusual spy-versus-spy battle is playing out: The machine has been taken over by Chinese hackers.
The hackers use it to plan and stage attacks. But unbeknown to them, a Silicon Valley start-up is tracking them here, in real time, watching their every move and, in some cases, blocking their efforts.
Has Ransomware Become the Chicken Little of the Security Industry?
/by RedSealSC MAGAZINE UK | June 16, 2016
That ransomware is a problem cannot be doubted. Whether the current level of media coverage, fuelled by vendor press releases, is doing more harm than good is more open to debate..
Just today SCMagazineUK.com reported how Avecto research had revealed that 30 percent of UK councils suffered at least one ransomware attack in 2015. That is big news.That Smart TVs have been infected by the Flocker ransomware maybe less so. Unless it’s your TV that is asking for cash to start working properly again of course.
Silicon Valley Has a Chance to Influence Cyber Security Policy
/by RedSealUSA TODAY | June 16, 2016
U.S. cybersecurity policy has followed a Jekyll-and-Hyde path lately.
In December, Congress passed a bill making it easier for U.S. software companies to hold onto their proprietary technology, to encourage them to share data on cyber threats. It was part of a new push for open cybersecurity standards to help combat rapidly-evolving threats.
In April, however, the Senate Intelligence Committee introduced a bill that would force U.S. companies to provide backdoor access to encrypted data to law enforcement in response to a warrant.