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GUEST OPINION:  The energy sector stands at the forefront of technological advancement as providers implement mechanisms to reduce costs and improve efficiencies by converging Information Technology (IT), Operational Technology (OT) and the Internet of Things.  As assets across the digital and physical worlds become increasingly interconnected, cyberattacks that target IT systems spread into OT environments, resulting in devastating consequences.

GUEST OPINION: Recent cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure have starkly illustrated the risk of industrial control systems, sending a disturbing reminder to the power sector about the critical need for resilient operational technology (OT) environments.

Not for the first time, the industrial cyber security firm Dragos has contradicted popular conclusions about malware, saying its research into the ICS malware, dubbed COSMICENERGY by the Google-owned Mandiant, has found that it is not an immediate threat to operational technology.

GUEST RESEARCH: WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in unified cybersecurity, today announced findings from its most recent Internet Security Report, which details the top malware trends and network security threats analysed by WatchGuard Threat Lab researchers in Q2 2022. Key findings from the data include a reduction in overall malware detections from the peaks seen in the first half of 2021, an increase in threats for Chrome and Microsoft Office, the ongoing Emotet botnet resurgence, and much more.

The Indian Government has said a power outage in Mumbai last year was caused by human error, adding that no evidence exists to connect the incident to a "hacking attempt".

The head of the cyber security firm Dragos has played down reports of a cyber attack being behind a fire at the Abadan Oil Refinery in Iran, which were published by Reuters on Sunday.

Security outfit Tenable Research has released details of 12 vulnerabilities it discovered in industrial control systems made by Siemens, Fuji, Schneider Electric, and Rockwell Automation over the last nine months, with the latest being a hole in the Siemens TIA Portal discovered this month.

Industrial cyber security firm Dragos has acquired NexDefense, a pioneer in the field of industrial security, and says it will simultaneously release two tools for assessment of ICS/SCADA networks.

Attacking industrial control system computers is an attack on the computers that control the world around you, be it at a utility, factory, air-con systems and more, and these attacks are rising.

The acronym ICS is short for industrial control systems – a pleasant TLA (three-letter acronym) that is the basis of critical infrastructure like water and waste treatment, nuclear and conventional power plants and so much more. ICS is hackable!

Motorola has just this morning launched version 2.0 of its original 'XOOM' tablet in Australia, but given the fact that Asus has already launched its quad-core, ICS 4.0-equipped Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, is the competition zooming past a Motorola that needs much more mobility?

HTC's Velocity 4G is the fastest smartphone in Australia, primarily because it's the first to offer a 4G LTE chipset, and while more 4G models are clearly on the way, the ironic 'wait' for ICS 4.0 to arrive with some velocity for the Velocity begins.

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