impact Tag

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released seven advisories this week about vulnerabilities in industrial control systems (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software from various vendors. These advisories cover critical flaws, two of which have public exploits.   The affected products include ScadaFlex II controllers made by Industrial Control Links, Screen Creator Advance 2 and Kostac PLC programming software from JTEKT...

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frontier software

NSW Health Data Breach: Payroll Information of Over 1,600 Staff Affected!   NSW Health has recently confirmed that it has become the latest organisation to suffer a data breach in the Frontier Software cyber-attack at the end of 2021. According to an FAQ posted on its website, the breach has impacted staff or former staff who were employed by the Ministry of Health, as a senior executive...

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stolen password

Cybercriminals are increasingly turning to stolen credentials as a valuable commodity on the underground market. According to a report by cybersecurity firm Flashpoint, last year saw 4,518 data breaches reported, with attackers stealing or exposing 22.62 billion credentials and personal records.   Over 60% of these were stolen from organizations in the information sector. Flashpoint's database of threat intelligence includes 575 million posts on illegal forums, 3.6...

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Wireless IIoT Device Vulnerabilities Pose Risk to Critical Infrastructure

A set of 38 security vulnerabilities has been uncovered in wireless industrial internet of things (IIoT) devices from four different vendors that could pose a significant attack surface for threat actors looking to exploit operational technology (OT) environments. "Threat actors can exploit vulnerabilities in Wireless IIoT devices to gain initial access to internal OT networks," Israeli...

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