Typically, holidays are a hot time for a serious cyberattack because offices are quiet and no one is around to monitor things. At the end of this year, however, my email account was not flooded with notifications with breaking security stories.
That’s not to say nothing was reported. A few hours after I shut off my computer for 2015 (but technically not the holiday week), I heard about the discovery of the cyberattack on a New York state dam. The attack happened two years ago, and while considered a breach by Iranian hackers, no serious damage was done, as eSecurity Planet reported:
The hackers are believed to have breached the dam’s control system via a cellular modem. They probed the system, but didn’t take control of it.
As Chris Petersen, CTO and co-founder of LogRhythm, told me in an email For the full article click here
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