Former cyber executive turned whistleblower accuses IBM of covering up several data breaches

A former IBM cybersecurity executive accused the company of getting hacked three times in the previous decade by foreign governments and then covering up the breaches.  In a lawsuit unsealed this week but filed in 2020, William Barlow, who was IBM’s vice president of threat intelligence until August 2019, said IBM concluded Chinese hackers breached…

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Hackers Are Targeting Fuel Tank Monitoring Systems

Cybercriminals are probing a quiet layer of fuel infrastructure: the systems that monitor what is inside storage tanks. According to a new government advisory, reports have emerged of threat actors targeting Automatic Tank Gauge (ATG) systems used to monitor fuel and liquid storage tanks across the US. Officials say these actors have already compromised internet-facing…

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