Texas Governor Greg Abbott says that as many as 10,000 attempted attacks per minute from Iran had been detected over the past two days on state agency networks.
NIST has released the second public draft of NISTIR 8259, "Recommendations for IoT Device Manufacturers: Foundational Activities and Core Device Cybersecurity Capability Baseline."
The U.S. Conference of Mayors has released its Mayors’ Vision for America: A 2020 Call to Action, which revolves around technology to help improve critical infrastructure and protect citizens.
The London Stock Exchange denies that a cyber attack was responsible for a trading outage in August. U.K. security agencies are reportedly investigating the cause of the incident.