The City of New Orleans, La. says the recent cyber attack on its networks will cost more than seven million dollars. Mayor Latoya Cantrell expects that number to grow. According to a FOX 8 WVUE-TV in New Orleans report, Mayor Cantrell says the...
Data-driven vehicles: The next security challenge
Companies are increasingly building smart products that are tailored to know the individual user. In the automotive world, the next generation passenger vehicle could behave like a personal chauffeur, sentry and bodyguard rolled into one. Over the next decade, every...
7 ways to store Renewable Energy
Renewable energy is growing by leaps and bounds, but in order for much of it to work, it needs to be stored during peak production and released during low production. https://www.youtube.com/embed/kAB3-lzxvkE Credit Joe Scott...
‘Invisible’ East China Sea oil spill contaminating Asia’s richest fisheries
Unlike crude oil, condensate does not clump into black globules that can be easily seen or produce heart-wrenching images of birds tarred muck A fiery collision that sank an Iranian tanker in the East China Sea a month ago has resulted in an environmental threat that...
MONITORING AND ANALYZING SOCIAL MEDIA TO PROTECT CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
By Csaba Fenyvesi and Ana Miletic At first glance the connection between the social media and critical infrastructure is not so obvious. But if we define critical infrastructure as all the physical and IT-based devices, networks and services, which are...
Cyber attackers turn to business disruption as primary attack objective
Over the course of 2019, 36% of the incidents that CrowdStrike investigated were most often caused by ransomware, destructive malware or denial of service attacks, revealing that business disruption was often the main attack objective of cybercriminals. Another...
Building a Cyber Risk Report Your Board Will Love
It’s not a question of if but when – as a CISO, you will be called to brief the board of directors on cybersecurity performance - and with growing pressure from the board, this day is probably coming sooner than expected. The meeting will probably come with a short...
The Four New Pillars of Corporate Protection
Over the last few years, we’ve witnessed countless cyber-attacks and massive data breaches. If we take a closer look at some of the more recent larger hacks such as Facebook, Uber, Yahoo and Capital One, we see that these breaches are hitting very advanced companies...
Thirsty future ahead as climate change explodes plant growth
Rising CO2 levels and a warmer earth means plants will grow bigger and have longer to suck the land dry. That’s bad news for human water supplies. By the end of the century plants could consume substantially more water, leaving less for people across North America,...