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Cyber Supply Chain Security Is Increasingly Difficult for Critical Infrastructure Organizations

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As the old cybersecurity adage states, ‘the cybersecurity chain is only as strong as its weakest link.’  Smart CISOs also understand that the proverbial weak link may actually be out of their control. 

U.S. retailer Target certainly experienced this lack of cybersecurity control in 2013.  The now infamous Target data breach that exposed the personal information of 110 million people began with a spear phishing attack on one of the company’s HVAC contractors, Fazio Mechanical of Sharpsburg, PA.  Cyber-criminals compromised a Fazio Mechanical system, gained credentialed access to Target, and proceeded to wreak havoc on Target’s data, customers, and reputation.

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Asian nations increasingly hit by espionage groups

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Multiple cyberespionage groups are specifically targeting government and military organizations from countries in Asia and the Pacific region with the goal of gathering geo-political intelligence, according to new security research.

Some of the groups have been active for years, but the extent of their operations are only now coming to light.

One Chinese-speaking group, dubbed Naikon, has been operating for five years and has had a “high volume, high profile, geo-political attack activity,” researchers from Kaspersky Lab said Thursday in a report.

The group has targeted top-level government, military and civilian organizations from the Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar (Burma), Singapore, Nepal, Thailand, Laos and China.

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Organised drug gangs increasingly hooking up with hackers, warns Europol

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Organised crime is becoming increasingly entwined with hacking, creating a “service-orientated industry” and making the internet “the single most important” factor facilitating major organised crime and drug trafficking, according to the head of Europol.
Naked Security – Sophos

Autoit Scripting Increasingly Used By Malware Developers – CIO

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Autoit Scripting Increasingly Used By Malware Developers
CIO
For example, the Flame cyberespionage malware used the LUA scripting language to automate some tasks without being detected by antivirus products, Botezatu said. AutoIt is extremely intuitive and easy to use, produces compiled binaries that run out of …

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