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US Maritime Administrator to study port crane cybersecurity concerns

The 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed by Congress and signed by President Biden in late December 2022 was filled with a host of military-related cybersecurity provisions. One little-noticed provision in the bill called for a study of cybersecurity and national security threats posed by foreign-manufactured cranes at United States ports. Under this provision, the Maritime Administrator, working with Homeland Security, the Pentagon, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is required to conduct a study to assess whether foreign manufactured cranes at United States ports pose cybersecurity or national security threats. It must be completed by late December 2023 and submitted to the Senate Commerce and Armed Services committees and House Transportation and Armed Services committees. To read this article in full, please click here
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Training, endpoint management reduce remote working cybersecurity risks

33% of companies are not providing any cybersecurity awareness training to users who work remotely, according to Hornetsecurity. The study also revealed that nearly 74% of remote staff have access to critical data, which is creating more risk for companies in the new hybrid working world. Despite the current lack of training and employees feeling ill-equipped, almost 44% of respondents said their organization plans to increase the percentage of employees that work remotely. “The popularity … More → The post Training, endpoint management reduce remote working cybersecurity risks appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Agencies are on the hook to increase ‘operations security’ training, education

Officials are concerned about adversaries targeting unclassified data and the employees who work with it.
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How AI chatbot ChatGPT changes the phishing game

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s free chatbot based on GPT-3.5, was released on 30 November 2022 and racked up a million users in five days. It is capable of writing emails, essays, code and phishing emails, if the user knows how to ask. By comparison, it took Twitter two years to reach a million users. Facebook took ten months, Dropbox seven months, Spotify five months, Instagram six weeks. Pokemon Go took ten hours, so don’t break out the champagne bottles, but still, five days is pretty impressive for a web-based tool that didn’t have any built-in name recognition. To read this article in full, please click here
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