Weekly #InfoSec News Roundup
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2 min readNov 25, 2024
Sunday, November 17, 2024 — Sunday, November 24, 2024
A baker’s dozen of Information Security & Data Privacy news items that you may have missed!
- Army Cyber AI monitoring tool, Panoptic Junction or PJ, moves to 12-month pilot
(Defense Scoop, November 18th) - ‘Critical’ cyber vulnerabilities found in many water utilities, warns EPA inspector general
(State Scoop, November 18th) - Energy Department’s ‘Energy Threat Analysis Center’ cyber threat center goes operational
(Federal News Network, November 18th) - United Kingdom’s largest water and waste treatment company Thames Water’s IT ‘falling apart’ and is hit by cyber-attacks, sources claim
(The Guardian, November 18th) - Moody’s rates education sector at ‘high’ cyber risk in 2024
(K-12 Dive, November 19th) - Rail and pipeline representatives push to dial back Transportation Security Administration’s cyber mandates
(Cyber Scoop, November 19th) - Note to Industry: Make Spanish Language-Enabled Cybersecurity Tools
(The Cyber Edge by Signal, November 21st) - Now Hackers Are Using Snail Mail In Cyber Attacks — Here’s How
(Forbes, November 21st) - The Philippine army is recruiting young tech civilians to fight cyber attacks
(Rest of World, November 21st) - Report: Media &Entertainment taking longer to recover from cyber attacks
(Advanced Television, November 21st) - U.S. Coast Guard Sounds Alarm on Cyber Threats from Chinese Port Cranes
(gCaptain, November 22nd) - Russia ‘aggressive’ and ‘reckless’ in cyber realm and threat to Nato, UK minister to warn
(The Guardian, November 23rd) - Iranian Handala Hacking Group Claims Cyber Attack on Silicom, Mossad’s Cover Company
(Sri Lanka Guardian, November 25th)
