Check out the top five articles for November 2022

There are several techniques for disseminating miners, most of which are comparable to methods for spreading any other sort of malware.

Cybercriminals can exploit weaknesses in access control system credentials, controllers, servers, readers, or workstations connected to the network.

Of the 500 officials surveyed, 40% work at federal civilian agencies, 40% at defense agencies, and 20% at intelligence and homeland security agencies.

All sectors say phishing is the most common type of attack they experience. 

When a company experiences a data breach, the financial impacts of the compromise can be detrimental. Share prices are estimated to fall 3.5% within four months, and 8.6% after a year. But which global companies have experienced the most expensive data breaches?

The solution is designed to help improve power system reliability by providing warnings of pending issues to administrators and helping perform orderly shutdown of servers and storage. 

Despite cybersecurity experts continuously warning about the consequences of irresponsible password management, internet users were found guilty again. Compared to the data from 2021, 73% of the 200 most common passwords in 2022 remain the same. Furthermore, 83% of the passwords in this year’s list can be cracked in less than a second.

Two of the biggest rules of thumb when it comes to password safety are not sharing passwords with others and using different passwords across accounts. It may not seem like a big deal to indulge in password laziness from time to time, but these lapses could end up having more drastic consequences.

How do you know when a perfect storm is brewing? If your team is tasked with securing your organization’s operational technology and industrial control systems (OT/ICS), you may have a pretty good idea by now.