According to a survey conducted by the Internet of Things (IoT) security company Pwnie Express, an overwhelming number of IT security professionals (85 percent) see a cyber attack on critical infrastructure happening in the next five years.
Speaking on May 14th 2018 at an event in Berlin, MI5 Director General Andrew Parker warned that Europe faces “an intense, unrelenting and multidimensional international terrorist threat”.
Measures to protect the UK’s critical infrastructure and digital services from cyber attacks and computer network failure came into force on 10th May 2018. Health, water, energy, transport and digital infrastructure companies will now be expected to have robust safeguards in place against cyber threats and will have to report breaches and network outages
On 14th May 2018, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Ranking Member Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), and Sens. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) introduced the Preventing Emerging Threats Act of 2018.
Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield's catastrophe model development team, has published the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide during April 2018.
Telstra is blaming a lightning strike followed by the initial failure of contingency measures for a network outage that resulted in loss of triple-0 services in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania. 000 is the primary national emergency number in Australia.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and a broad range of partners are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) working with the Government to contain an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Bikoro health zone, Equateur Province.
The Australian Government has announced that it is to conduct a fuel security review to assess Australia's liquid fuel security and supply resilience. Liquid fuel, such as petrol, diesel and jet fuel, accounts for 37 percent of Australia's energy use, including 98 percent of transport needs.
Tenable has reported the discovery of a critical remote code execution vulnerability in two Schneider Electric applications widely used in manufacturing, oil and gas, water, automation and wind and solar power facilities.
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