KrebsOnSecurity celebrates its 14th year of existence today! I promised myself this post wouldn't devolve into yet another Cybersecurity Year in Review. Nor do I wish to hold forth about whatever cyber horrors may await us in 2024. But I…
There's usually a word or phrase that sums up my annual Cybersecurity Year in Review. "Lack of resilience" was 2022's theme, highlighting the Canada-wide outage at Rogers Communications. "A crazy mess" was 2021's theme, because of the SolarWinds Orion and other supply chain hacks. This year, successful ransomware attacks hit a record level. But for
Our annual Cybersecurity Year in Review traditionally starts with the choice of a word or phrase that sums up the last 12 months ransomware, huge data breaches, supply chain attacks and so on. Arguably, this year's central event in Canada was something indirectly related to cybersecurity: The nationwide collapse on July 8th of the
Major cybersecurity incidents in 2021 struck industrial organizations in a range of sectors, with international headlines detailing everything from a compromise of a water treatment facility with the intent to poison its community to a ransomware attack against a pipeline operator that disrupted gas supplies to the southeastern United States.