ANN ARBOR - October is Cyber Security Awareness Month. Joining us last week for the ITC Energy Report was Matt Kurpinski, VP, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer for ITC. Matt discussed why Cyber Security is so important to ITC and what businesses can do to become more Cyber Smart. In this video interview, he
DETROIT - State-sponsored cyberattacks are carried out to espionage secret government data, disrupt services or identify and exploit national infrastructure vulnerabilities. According to the data collected by the Atlas VPN team, Russia and China sponsored over 50 cyberattacks in 2022, with Ukraine being the most targeted country. The data is based on Council on Foreign
NORTH KOREA - Hackers backed by the North Korean government are weaponizing well-known pieces of open source software in an ongoing campaign that has already succeeded in compromising "numerous" organizations in the media, defense and aerospace, and IT services industries, Microsoft said on Thursday. ZINC—Microsoft's name for a threat actor group also called Lazarus, which
DETROIT - During a recent investigation of a series of cyber intrusions into an unnamed high-value target, threat intelligence researchers with SentinelOne’s SentinelLabs team discovered nearly 10 hacking groups associated with China and Iran. This isn’t necessarily new when dealing with significant targets, sometimes referred to as a “magnet of threats” in cybersecurity, as they
WASHINGTON DC - The National Security Agency and CISA have issued guidance on how to secure operational technology and industrial control systems part of U.S. critical infrastructure. The joint advisory shares info on all the steps used by malicious actors to compromise IT-enabled OT and ICS assets which provide a larger attack surface and highlights
BEIJING, China - China has accused the U.S. of "hacking" into a Chinese space and aviation university, "stealing" critical technical data. U.S. National Security Agency's (NSA) cyber-warfare unit "penetrated and controlled" unnamed telecom operators, Chinese news media Global Times reported on Thursday, quoting its state sources. "Hackers from abroad were caught sending phishing emails with Trojan horse programs
ANN ARBOR - Some NATO countries bordering the Ukraine are under cyber attack. Cybersecurity experts Dan Lohrmann and Richard Stiennon joins Matt and Mike to figure out who. Spoiler alert it's probably Russia. Dan and Richard also update what your company must know to avoid ransomware, phishing attacks, plus several new business hacks that are
ANN ARBOR - The Michigan CyberPatriot program is looking for cybersecurity professionals who can donate a little time to help educate students who want to become cybersecurity professionals. Michigan Director Tamara Shoemaker joins Matt and Mike on MITech TV to explain the program. CyberPatriot's mission is to increase the number of Michigan Schools participating in
LANSING - Montenegro, Estonia and new NATO applicant Finland are just three of the countries being hit hard by sophisticated cyber attacks. What’s happening and who’s next? A headline this past week from Balkan Insight read: “Montenegro Sent Back to Analog by Unprecedented Cyber Attacks.” Here’s an excerpt: “The digital infrastructure of a major part of Montenegro’s
DETROIT - In this day and age, we are more exposed than ever to cyber threats, including phishing, identity theft, shadow profiles, and hackers to name a few. Most of this is due to the fact that there are thousands of “data brokers” in America that collect, analyze, and sell your data for a profit.
