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Attackers did not just lock operators out. Federal guidance says they learned to disable the alarms that warn something is wrong. A proposal wants underwriters to enforce a standard of care that courts already struck down once. Attackers spent late July inside the control systems of American water utilities. They changed IP addresses. They set … Read more
Both numbers sit inside IBM’s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report. The gap between them may be the most useful finding in the study. As follow-on research to the IBM data breach report, Ponemon Institute studied 602 breached organizations between March 2025 and February 2026. Nearly two-thirds said they planned to spend more on … Read more
Microsegmentation. Poland’s cyberwar. AI-powered attackers. The blast radius that decides your cyber insurance premium. New podcast episode. Poland absorbed 270,000 cyberattacks in the past year. That’s 2.5 times more than the year before, according to Deputy Digital Affairs Minister Paweł Olszewski. Russia tripled its military intelligence resources aimed at Polish targets in 2025, per Digital … Read more
The NCSC now links most attacks on UK critical infrastructure to hostile states. That collides with how cyber policies handle war. A utility goes dark. And the darkness cascades. Investigators trace the intrusion to a hostile state. Then the cyber insurer turns to its war exclusion. That sequence is now the central question for critical … Read more
A manufacturer whose devices touch millions of patients a year gets hit by a cyberattack. Ordering, manufacturing, and shipping are disrupted. Some patient-specific procedures are rescheduled. Suddenly, a surgery schedule is no longer just tied to hospital capacity or clinical need; it is tied to the recovery timeline of a hacked supplier. This is the … Read more