There is more news on the cyber security attacks on KP Snacks and Oiltanking. The cyber incident at the German firm Oiltanking has spread to other connected oil companies, SEA-Invest based in Belgium and Evos in the Netherlands, spreading the oil supply disruption across Europe. European oil facilities hit by …
Cyber attack impacts German fuel supplies
Oiltanking Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, a major player in the infrastructure of oil supplies in German discovered the cyber security breach on Saturday. Cyber-attack strikes German fuel supplies – BBC News Cyberattack hits German service station provider • The Register
Reward offered for pipeline attackers
The US government has offered a reward up to $10million for information relating to the DarkSide hacking group that attacked US oil supply infrastructure in May 2021. US offers $10m bounty for Colonial Pipeline hackers – BBC News However as these hackers are thought to be in Russia, even these …
Cisco admits to leaving a backdoor open
Cisco – a company that likes to remind us how much of their hardware makes up the infrastructure of the internet – has released a statement warning that an “unintentional debugging credential” has not been removed from some of their devices before they were sold. This affects devices found in …
Hallowe’en and maybe the hacker god will return from the dead! – #BeCyberSmart
In 2017 an academic paper1 about printer security highlighted open ports on many different types of printer. The paper was published on Monday 30 January and the following weekend a hacker using the pseudonym Stackoverflowin searched the internet to find vulnerable printers. The hacker then made his way into over …
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Telecoms vulnerabilities
Here is more on the story – Sophisticated hackers attack telecom companies – Smart Thinking Solutions with links to more information. Nation-State Attacker of Telecommunications Networks – Schneier on Security
Sophisticated hackers attack telecom companies
This is another attack on the infrastructure we are all dependent on. At least 13 phone firms hit by suspected Chinese hackers since 2019, say experts | Hacking | The Guardian Chinese hackers get the headlines and the blame, and there is evidence, but the attribution is not definitive. Assumptions …
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