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Data breach has Arkansas seeking new vendor
Bryan-College Station Eagle LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas is seeking someone else to provide database services after a breach during the spring impacted 600,000 of the state's residents. America's Job Link Alliance-TS has held a contract with the state since 2007. In March … |
The Angler exploit kit is once again leveraged by online criminals in an attempt to infect innocent computer users.
David Bisson reports.
A new study of a cyberattack last month against Ukrainian power companies suggests malware didn’t directly cause the outages that affected at least 80,000 customers.
Instead, the malware provided a foothold for key access to networks that allowed the hackers to then open circuit breakers that cut power, according to information published Saturday by the SANS Industrial Control Systems (ICS) team.
Experts have warned for years that industrial control systems used by utilities are vulnerable to cyberattacks. The Dec. 23 attacks in Ukraine are the most prominent example yet of those fears coming to fruition.
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Ukraine: First power station knocked offline by hackers is harbinger of cyber …
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