In response to the growing threat by pro-Russia hacktivists, on May 1, 2023, CISA and other national agency partners issued an Alert to operators of industrial control systems and small-scale operational technology systems in North America and Europe on mitigation techniques for cyber operations to prevent a compromise of industrial control systems, including “Water and
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Red Cross Creates Rules for Civilian Hackers in Conflict Zones
By Robinson+Cole's Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team on
Posted in Data Security
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has taken a new step to regulate the activities of civilian hackers in conflict zones. To address the rise in the involvement of civilian hackers in inter-state conflicts, the ICRC has come up with eight directives to ensure that these hackers don’t end up harming non-combatants.
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Hackers Target Russia in Support Of Ukraine
By Robinson+Cole's Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team on
Posted in Cybersecurity
The world has rallied around Ukraine since Russian forces invaded this past week, including, it seems, hackers. The hacktivist collective Anonymous, which gained prominence between 2008 and 2014 with a series of high-profile politically motivated cyber-attacks against such disparate groups as the Church of Scientology and PayPal, has come out of the woodwork once again…
Anonymous hacks login information of Paris climate summit attendees
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
In what has been described as a response to the arrests of protesters on a climate march in Paris this past Sunday in the midst of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), the hactivist organization Anonymous has announced that its hackers have successfully hacked into the website of UNFCC and posted the…