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Critical Infrastructure Threats Placing Incident Response in the Crosshairs

Homeland Security Today: Cyber attacks on critical infrastructure are becoming more commonplace, threatening public health and safety, and occasionally deteriorating relations between countries. These attacks have grown in sophistication as adversaries including nation-states deploy more advanced techniques to pursue their goals of financial gain or destabilizing a country’s core systems.

The severity of such activities recently prompted the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to issue a technical alert describing ongoing attacks on critical infrastructure by hackers apparently associated with the Russian government.

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