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Guest Post: Cybersecurity Incidents Lead to New Standards, Requirements

Security Industry Association

The two most significant recent incidents in the cybersecurity timeline were the Mirai botnet of 2016 and the SolarWinds breach of 2020. The hack targeted the network management company’s Orion software, injecting it with malware that was then sent to approximately 18,000 public and private organizations through a customer software update.

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Beware of the self-wiggling mouse – Water industry & Cyber

Plan B Consulting

These have varied from: Stuxnet, where Americans and Israelis used malware to infect Iranian nuclear centrifuges, which were then programmed to “spinning themselves apart” while telling the telemetry system all was normal. Marine life died, the creek water turned black, and the stench was unbearable for residents”.

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Beware of the self-wiggling mouse – Water industry & Cyber

Plan B Consulting

These have varied from: Stuxnet, where Americans and Israelis used malware to infect Iranian nuclear centrifuges, which were then programmed to “spinning themselves apart” while telling the telemetry system all was normal. Marine life died, the creek water turned black, and the stench was unbearable for residents”.