Sentences with phrase «target critical infrastructure»

«We have watched for several years the trend of malicious actors in cyber try to figure out how to target critical infrastructure,» he said.

Russia is ripping up the rulebook by undermining democracy, wrecking livelihoods by targeting critical infrastructure and weaponizing information.»

«Russia is ripping up the rulebook by undermining democracy, wrecking livelihoods by targeting critical infrastructure and weaponizing information... We must be primed and ready to tackle these stark and intensifying threats.»

Joint DHS and FBI analysis finds evidence that Russia has been actively targeting critical infrastructure in the U.S with cyber-attacks.

Not exact matches

April 16 (Reuters)- The United States and Britain on Monday warned of a global cyber attack targeting routers and other networking equipment, blaming Russian government - backed hackers for the campaign on government agencies, businesses and critical infrastructure operators.

«Rather, Russia and the Syrian regime have chosen to pursue a military course, inconsistent with the Cessation of Hostilities, as demonstrated by their intensified attacks against civilian areas, targeting of critical infrastructure such as hospitals, and preventing humanitarian aid from reaching civilians in need,» the statement said.

The attacks have apparently been going on since last year, around the world, with targets including public and private - sector organizations, as well as critical infrastructure providers.

Therefore the military would have to target «not only nuclear infrastructure but command and control facilities, key leaders, artillery and missile units, chemical and biological weapons facilities, airfields, ports, and other targets deemed critical to regime survival,» according to the report for Congress.

The upshot is that Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure may need to be included on the list of critical infrastructure targets, which includes utilities, transportation systems, financial markets and most recently election systems.

Why this matters: Code governing control systems at industrial sites has already been the target of attacks, and US officials recently warned Russian hackers are probing for security holes in software controlling critical infrastructure like nuclear facilities and dams.

On May 20, 2015, nine days BEFORE the government was inaugurated, I laid out «Policy Prescriptions» - diversification of production, government revenue, and exports; imperative of a strong and credible economic team and cabinet; targeting «opportunity sectors» (solid minerals, refining and petrochemicals, a new and realistic fiscal regime for upstream oil and gas, private sector investments in power and infrastructure, agro-processing, retail and construction); freeing «up resources from downstream petroleum sector deregulation» emphasizing «an economic reality in which hard decisions including some previously rebuffed by the opposition will have to be taken» a clear reference to the petrol subsidy which government waited a full year before countenancing the critical decision!

Now that Stuxnet has shown it is possible for a targeted piece of software to take command of an industrial control system, and now that the malware has been released on the Internet for other hackers to study, the bar has been lowered for destructive attacks on other control systems — whether at critical infrastructure or an industrial factory.

Lieberman agrees: «It's not inconceivable that an attacker could target an employee of a critical infrastructure company, shut down that company down, and demand a ransom to restore access.»

The event was held on 10 - 12 May 2016 in Geneva and focused on SDG 14 as well as on other Sustainable Development Goals and targets and considered, inter alia, a range of interconnected issues related to sustainable transport, ship - source pollution prevention and control and climate change adaptation for ports and other critical transport infrastructure.

«Since at least March 2016, Russian government cyber actors... targeted government entities and multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, including the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors,» according to an alert issued by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.

Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has predicted that «because of the destructive potential of these types of breaches, critical electric and other utility infrastructure will remain highly - prized targets for future cyberattacks.»

Peter Cohen, Strategic Director of Countercept at MWR InfoSecurity, is involved with setting up, detecting and responding to targeted cyber-attacks across critical national infrastructure across the UK.

Chinese companies and threat actors are collecting vast stores of psychographic and demographic data that can be leveraged by Big Data machine learning algorithms to produce insights that facilitate information warfare against populations, Counterintelligence operations against Intelligence assets, and precision - targeted attacks against critical infrastructure executives.

The FBI also warned of Russian government actors targeting the energy grid and other critical infrastructure.

In a separate alert, Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI warned of Russian government - backed cyberattacks targeting the energy grid and other critical national infrastructure.

«The ease with which an attacker can harvest and collect demographic and psychographic data on targets is astounding,» said James Scott, senior fellow at the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology.

Since at least March 2016, Russian government cyber actors have also targeted U.S. government entities and multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, including the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors.

gov - Since at least March 2016, Russian government cyber actors — hereafter referred to as «threat actors» — targeted government entities and multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, including the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors.

Since at least March 2016, Russian government cyber actors — hereafter referred to as «threat actors» — targeted government entities and multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, including the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors.

In the US - CERT advisory, DHS warned that «Russian government cyber actors» have targeted and infiltrated organizations active in the US energy grid and other critical infrastructure networks.

securityaffairs.co - While US - CERT warns of cyber attacks against critical infrastructure in the energy sectors, Russia - linked Sofacy APT is targeting a government agency in Europe.