At this year's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, we caught up with Sonatype CTO Joshua Corman to discuss the industry's role in public safety, as well as some initiatives he's involved in that will be announced soon.
Canada had its various government agencies and financial and transportation industries subjected to distributed denial-of-service attacks by pro-Russian cybercrime operation NoName057(16), according to SecurityWeek.
A hearing ostensibly focused on CISA's CDM and EINSTEIN cybersecurity programs took a detour as witnesses strongly warned Congress that a shutdown could imperil federal cybersecurity efforts.
TechCrunch reports that major payments technology platform Square disclosed that a daylong outage it suffered late last week was prompted by a DNS error and not by a cyberattack. "While making several standard changes to our internal network software, the combination of updates prevented our systems from properly communicating with each other, and ultimately caused the disruption."