Department of Homeland Security
Sounding the Alarm on Emergency Alert System Flaws
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is urging states and localities to beef up security around proprietary devices that connect to the Emergency Alert System -- a national public warning system used ...
New Cyber Safety Review Board Will Tackle Log4j Debacle First
DHS has launched the long-awaited Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) to assess major cybersecurity incidents and make recommendations for improvements. After a year in the making, the CSRB is first setting its ...
FBI Raids Chinese Point-of-Sale Giant PAX Technology
U.S. federal investigators today raided the U.S. offices of PAX Technology, a Chinese provider of point-of-sale devices used by millions of businesses and retailers globally. KrebsOnSecurity has learned the raid is tied ...
How Pipeline Owners and Operators Can Fulfill the TSA’s Second Security Directive
Back in June, I wrote about the Transportation Security Agency’s (TSA) new security directive concerning pipeline owners and operators. The order mandated those entities to disclose security incidents such as the ransomware ...
On the Importance of Protecting U.S. Pipeline Owners and Operators
In the beginning of May, a U.S. pipeline company suffered a ransomware attack. The company decided to respond by halting operations while it investigated the incident. This delayed tens of millions of ...
Task Force Seeks to Disrupt Ransomware Payments
Some of the world's top tech firms are backing a new industry task force focused on disrupting cybercriminal ransomware gangs by limiting their ability to get paid, and targeting the individuals and ...
Christopher Krebs to Keynote in Live Fireside Chat/Q&A Session at DevOps Connect: DevSecOps at RSA Conference 2021
Former Director of Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to headline free one-day event Boca Raton, FL, April 26, 2021 — MediaOps, the place to tell your story in ...
SolarWinds Hack: U.S. Govt Failure is Deeply Worrying
The U.S. government is doing a piss-poor job of protecting Americans from foreign hackers ...
U.S. Indicts North Korean Hackers in Theft of $200 Million
The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against three men accused of working with the North Korean regime to carry out some of the most damaging cybercrime attacks over the past decade, ...
FBI, DHS, HHS Warn of Imminent, Credible Ransomware Threat Against U.S. Hospitals
On Monday, Oct. 27, KrebsOnSecurity began following up on a tip from a reliable source that an aggressive Russian cybercriminal gang known for deploying ransomware was preparing to disrupt information technology systems ...