Top news of the week: 24.06.2021.
Companies And Services
How Cyber Safe is Your Drinking Water Supply?
Amid multiple recent reports of hackers breaking into and tampering with drinking water treatment systems comes a new industry survey with some sobering findings: A majority of …
Senate confirms Chris Inglis as Biden's top cyber adviser
Inglis, a former NSA deputy director, will confront the mammoth task of streamlining the government's approach to a growing crisis.
7 best practices for enterprise attack surface management
Follow this advice to minimize vulnerabilities and give threat actors fewer opportunities to compromise your organization's network and devices.
Energy Department Revising Cybersecurity Requirements for Nuclear Administration Contractors
The revision is part of an effort to reduce requirements contractors perceive as burdensome.
Government-mandated SBOMs to throw light on software supply chain security
The US government will soon require vendors to provide a software bill of materials to help ensure integrity of an application's components.
Lawmakers Urge Private Sector to Do More on Cybersecurity
The private sector in the U.S. must do more to defend against cyberattacks, lawmakers from both major parties stressed Thursday as several senators introduced legislation designed to target ...
Complex supply chain logistics are leaving defense contractors vulnerable
An evaluation of 300 small and medium defense companies suggests contractors prioritized interoperability with outside systems over security.
First American Financial Pays Farcical $500K Fine
In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage settlement giant First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] was leaking more than 800 million documents — …