By Shannon Perry Another data breach is making headlines, as eBay.com has revealed that the passwords for its accounts were recently compromised. The peculiar thing about this breach, however, is the way eBay communicated – and did not communicate – the breach to its users. If you visited eBay.c...
By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: This strikes me as important news that can impact every sector of the economy and every industry, as well as the future of humanity. Yep, this can be really big. Read the release below for more, including info on how to watch the scientific symposium online. – bg. S...
Funding by the Office of Naval Research has led to a robot jellyfish that runs on hydrogen and oxygen gas extracted from the sea and could eventually be used as self-sustaining ocean surveillance. More here. The state of Illinois and two regional governments in the Chicago area are offering citizens...
Botnet takedowns make front page in this week’s security news in review This week saw a lot of activity on botnet control and disruption as several corporations struggled to disrupt or destroy major botnets and their command-and-control facilities. Botnets are responsible for some of the ...
New reports on Nov. 28 backed initial DHS skepticism that the failure of a pump at an Illinois water utility was a foreign cyber attack on the system’s supervisory control and acquisition system. The Washington Post reported on Nov. 28 that the failure of a water pump was the result of an error ...
Federal officials said there’s no evidence to support a report that hackers destroyed a pump used by an Illinois-based water utility after gaining unauthorized access to the computer system it used to operate its machinery. In an email sent on Tuesday afternoon to members of the Industrial Co...
Russian hackers are reported to have been behind an attack on a water utility station in Springfield, Illinois, earlier this month, destroying a pump after gaining unauthorized access to the system. As reportedly previously SCADA – Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition – systems are often u...
A pump at a public water utility in Springfield, Ill. was recently destroyed after cyberattackers gained access to a SCADA system controlling the device, according to a security expert who said he obtained an official report about the incident. A spokesman from the U.S. Department of Homeland Secu...