The Biden administration's strategy for bolstering health sector cybersecurity, which includes newly released voluntary cyber performance goals and plans to update the HIPAA Security Rule, is fueling uncertainty in some organizations, said privacy attorney Iliana Peters of law firm Polsinelli.
Chinese espionage hackers penetrated Dutch military systems in early 2023, using a zero-day exploit in a Fortinet virtual private network to obtain access, Netherlands intelligence agencies disclosed Tuesday. They attributed the hacking to Chinese state actors with high confidence.
Hackers can use generative AI and deepfake technology to manipulate live conversations, IBM security researchers said. They used the "surprising and scarily easy" audio-jacking technique to intercept a speaker's audio, replace an authentic voice with a deepfake, and share fake bank account data.
HHS has fined a New York City medical center $4.75 million to settle potential HIPAA violations discovered during an investigation into a hospital insider who sold patient data to identity thieves in 2013. The hospital said it has beefed up its security and privacy since the incident occurred.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency launched a public-private sector collaborative in 2021 to help unify cyber defenses between government and industry, but experts testified Tuesday that the program is suffering from "growing pains" that are hindering its success.
The novel variant of the banking Trojan Mispadu is targeting Latin American countries, especially Mexico, by exploiting a flaw in Windows SmartScreen. In this latest distribution method, the attackers send spam emails that deliver deceptive URL files that circumvent the SmartScreen banner warning.
A federal judge has denied Kochava's latest attempt to ditch a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit alleging the firm is invading consumers' privacy and exposing them to risk by collecting and selling their location data to third parties. The FTC is also pursuing other cases against data brokers.
Firewall maker Check Point Software in an earnings call touted a strong fourth quarter - and a future that won't involve co-founder Gil Shwed as company CEO. Shwed has headed the publicly traded, $19 billion Israeli pure-play cybersecurity company for three decades.
The United States ramped up pressure on the commercial surveillance industry shortly before the United Kingdom and France convened a two-day meeting dubbed the Pall Mall Process intended to culminate in an international agreement limiting the proliferation of advanced spyware.
The escalating adoption of generative AI has introduced concerns regarding data privacy, fake data and bias amplification. Ashley Casovan, managing director of the IAPP AI Governance Center, discusses the need to develop governance models and standardize AI systems.
Greater diplomacy and faster vulnerability identification and remediation, backed by more bug bounty programs, are needed to combat the ongoing rise of advanced surveillance tools now being offered by at least 40 commercial spyware vendors, said Google's Threat Analysis Group.
In times of conflict, such as the Israel-Hamas war, intelligence becomes even more important than it is in peacetime. Red Curry, chief marketing officer at Tautuk, and his brother, Sam Curry, CISO at Zscaler, discuss the need for a combined intelligence strategy and better resilience in wartime.
A government watchdog urged the White House to establish metrics that would help determine the effectiveness of federal cybersecurity initiatives, but it's a lot easier to recommend developing outcome-oriented performance measures for cybersecurity than it is to actually develop them.
Fast-growing cloud cybersecurity startup Wiz snagged a former Zscaler executive as its new chief operating officer and president as the company prepares to go public. Wiz announced Monday that Dali Rajic has jumped to the New York-headquartered company.
Network systems - including phones, email, electronic health records and patient portals - remain offline at a Chicago children's hospital and research center nearly a week after it was hit by a cyberattack. Such incidents targeting entities that cater to kids are especially egregious, experts say.
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