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Infrastructure. In the U.S., critical infrastructure protection (CIP) is a concept that relates to the preparedness and response to serious incidents that involve the critical infrastructure of a region or the nation. The American Presidential directive PDD-63 of May 1998 set up a national program of "Critical Infrastructure Protection". [1]
Critical infrastructure, or critical national infrastructure (CNI) in the UK, describes infrastructure considered essential by governments for the functioning of a society and economy and deserving of special protection for national security. [1] Critical infrastructure has traditionally been viewed as under the scope of government due to its ...
[139] [279] Ciaran Martin, a cybersecurity expert, said, "This is a very, very uncomfortable illustration of the fragility of the world's core internet infrastructure". [139] Critical infrastructure expert Gregory Falco said, "Cybersecurity providers are part of this homogenous backbone of modern systems and are so core to how we operate that a ...
It was the largest cyberattack on an oil infrastructure target in the history of the United States. [2] The FBI and various media sources identified the criminal hacking group DarkSide as the responsible party. [14] The same group is believed to have stolen 100 gigabytes of data from company servers the day before the malware attack. [1]
A squirrel can disrupt a power system if its body becomes a current path between electrical lines such as those seen here. Electrical disruptions caused by squirrels are common and widespread, and can involve the disruption of power grids. It has been hypothesized that the threat to the internet, infrastructure and services posed by squirrels ...
Hospital as an infrastructure is one of the major assets to have been impacted by cyber attacks. These attacks could "directly lead to deaths." The cyberattacks are designed to deny hospital workers access to critical care systems. Recently, there has been a major increase of cyberattacks against hospitals amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The attackers exploited flaws in Microsoft products, services, and software distribution infrastructure. [23] [15] [9] [18]At least one reseller of Microsoft cloud services was compromised by the attackers, constituting a supply chain attack that allowed the attackers to access Microsoft cloud services used by the reseller's customers.
An Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) is an organization that provides a central resource for gathering information on cyber and related threats to critical infrastructure and providing two-way sharing of information between the private and public sectors. [1][2] Sector ISACs began forming in 1999, subsequent to the May 22, 1998 ...