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Is the recent accident at Iran Natanz nuclear plant a cyber attack?

Security Affairs

The “accident” impacted the electricity distribution network at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, Atomic Energy Organization of Iran spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi told the Iranian Fars News Agency. . ” reads the post published by Jerusalem Post. ” continues the JP. ” continues the JP.

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MY TAKE: Iran’s cyber retaliation for Soleimani assassination continues to ramp up

The Last Watchdog

cyber ops capability is Stuxnet , the self-spreading Windows worm found insinuating itself through Iranian nuclear plants in 2010. Issued a few days after the killing, the report assesses cyber risks of North American electrical utilities, identifying 11 hacking groups that target energy sector companies. That was a glitch.

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

In fact, memory attacks have quietly emerged as a powerful and versatile new class of hacking technique that threat actors in the vanguard are utilizing to subvert conventional IT security systems. Allegedly developed by US and Israeli operatives, Stuxnet was discovered circulating through Iranian nuclear energy facilities in 2010.

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Updates on Federal Cybersecurity Legislation

Hunton Privacy

The GRID Act was passed by the House of Representatives on June 9, 2010. This bill would amend the Federal Power Act to grant the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) authority to issue emergency orders requiring critical infrastructure facility operators to take actions necessary to protect the bulk power system.

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DOE Releases Report on Consumer Privacy Issues Related to Smart Grid Technologies

Hunton Privacy

On October 5, 2010, the Department of Energy (“DOE”) released a report entitled “Data Access and Privacy Issues Related to Smart Grid Technologies.” The idea behind the Smart Grid is that electricity can be delivered more efficiently using data collected through monitoring consumers’ energy use.

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Life at ForAllSecure: Shawn Santos, Director of Sales

ForAllSecure

I graduated college in 2010 and started a sales career. I've worked at a few startups before, and had some hand in the process, but taking the lead on putting together our outreach program (including tools and workflow) and now having the team onboard that is utilizing that has been fun and rewarding for me. It's never perfect.

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Friday Signal: The Web Gets Its Wisdom Teeth (We Hope)

John Battelle's Searchblog

The emergence of the MOLRS web indicates a third wave of Internet evolution - first was the flat HTML web of the 1990s, second was the burgeoning post search web of 2000-2010 (Web 2.0), and now we're in the third wave - what Tim and I coined as " WebSquared " last year. And that's about where the web is right now. on this one.

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