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We Spend Billions, and All We Get Is a B? Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief The American Society of Civil Engineers reminds me of those college professors whose standing policy is never to give any student an A. No matter how diligent or resourceful you are, you must be doing something wrong, right? On the other hand, there are those profs who automatically pass you as long as you show up for class, or who grade on a curve. “Wow, I barely studied and I still got a B+!” But I digress … The ASCE on March 1 awarded U.S. freig...

The American Society of Civil Engineers' quadrennial "Report Card" noted the beginnings of progress on waterways infrastructure.

BNSF photo The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) awarded U.S. freight and passenger railroads the highest grade—B—of its most recent quadrennial Infrastructure Report Card. That’s compared to an overall C–. In reviewing the rail sector, ASCE cited sustained private investment by freight railroads as the primary reason for the network’s good condition. In the 40 years since partial deregulation under the Staggers Rail Act—1980 to 2020—privately owned U.S. freight railroads invested nearly $740 billion, averaging approximately $25 billion per year over the past five year...

minute read Share this article: Researchers at Recorded Future report a rise in cracked Cobalt Strike and other open-source adversarial tools with easy-to-use interfaces. Simple to use and deploy offensive security tools, making it easier than ever for criminals with little technical know-how to get in on cybercrime are seeing a significant rise, researchers say. Recorded Future just released findings from its regular year-end observations of malicious infrastructure, identifying more than 10,000 unique command and control (C2) servers, across 80 malware families — nearly all l...