Christian Vasquez

Christian covers industrial cybersecurity for CyberScoop News. He previously wrote for E&E News at POLITICO covering cybersecurity in the energy sector. Reach out: christian.vasquez at cyberscoop dot com

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LAS VEGAS, NV – JANUARY 02: Exterior view of Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada sign is seen on January 02, 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by BG032/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

Las Vegas didn’t fold during CrowdStrike outage

Government

Broken RGB screen close-up with a missing pixel on the bottom right. (Getty Images)

Zero trust: How the ‘Jia Tan’ hack complicated open-source software

Government

The Iranian national flag is seen outside the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters during the agency’s Board of Governors meeting in Vienna on March 1, 2021. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran increases phishing attempts on U.S., Israeli targets

Threats

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DARPA competition shows promise of using AI to find and patch bugs

AI

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White House to study open source software in critical infrastructure

Government

Jen Easterly, director of the Homeland Security Department’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, testifies before the House (Select) Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party Committee on Capitol Hill on January 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Easterly: Cybersecurity is a software quality problem

Cybersecurity

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 20: In an aerial view, pools of water are visible at the East Bay Municipal Utility District Wastewater Treatment Plant on March 20, 2024 in Oakland, California. The Biden administration and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are warning states of possible cyberattacks on water systems after recents attacks including one by the Cyber Av3ngers, a group linked to the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, that targeted internet-facing programmable logic controllers at Pennsylvania’s Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

EPA ‘urgently’ needs to step up cybersecurity assistance for the water sector, GAO says

Government

The US Capitol in Washington, DC, on June 29, 2022. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Banking, oil and IT industry reps call on Congress to harmonize cyber regulations … again

Government

A view of the monument to the first Ukrainian printer Ivan Fedorov during snowfall on November 28, 2023 in Lviv, Ukraine. (Photo by Les Kasyanov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

Simple ‘FrostyGoop’ malware responsible for turning off Ukrainians’ heat in January attack

Threats