"This recognition is a testament to the talent, dedication, and 'can-do' spirit of the professional staff on the NYS Department of Transportation's team," Commissioner Dominguez said. "From bridge strikes in the capital region to catastrophic flooding in the Adirondacks, our team members work tirelessly to restore traffic and critical infrastructure-safely and quickly-with modern and resilient structures along these vital corridors within New York State."
Deutsche Bahn, Germany's national rail operator, has been dealing with a large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that has disrupted some of its IT systems. Regular status updates from Deutsche Bahn indicated that the attack began on February 17 and continued into February 18. According to the rail giant, the attack came in waves and its scale is substantial. The DDoS attack disrupted Deutsche Bahn's information and ticketing systems, including its websites and the DB Navigator app.
Life doesn't pause for grief or fear. You might be going through something devastating but you're still packing lunches, still driving your kids to baseball practice, still showing up to work. One minute I find myself prepping for a whole home presentation and the next minute I'm checking the news, hoping and praying that no one has been killed on the streets today.
The reported wiper attack ... may represent a similar dynamic, an early signal of activity that could expand beyond a single target. Organizations need to assume that attackers will gain a foothold and focus on proactively shutting down the attack paths adversaries rely on to escalate privileges, move laterally and expand their impact.
Entering the cyber world is stepping into a warzone. Cyber is considered a war zone, and what happens there is described as cyberwar. But it's not that simple. War is conducted by nations (political), not undertaken by criminals (financial). Both are increasing in this war zone we call cyber, but the political threat is growing fast. Cyberwar is a complex subject, and a formal definition is difficult.
The findings are based on several years of deploying OMICRON's intrusion detection system (IDS) StationGuard in protection, automation, and control (PAC) systems. The technology, which monitors network traffic passively, has provided deep visibility into real-world OT environments. The results underscore the growing attack surface in energy systems and the challenges operators face in securing aging infrastructure and complex network architectures.
