Two large healthcare organizations - Memorial Health System in Ohio and University Medical Center of Southern Nevada - continue to mop up after recent cyberattacks apparently involving ransomware. The Ohio organization admits negotiating "a settlement" with attackers to obtain a decryptor.
The U.S. State Department reportedly recently sustained a cyber incident that prompted a notice to the Defense Department's Cyber Command. The report of the incident follows a congressional report that gave the State Department a "D" grade for its cybersecurity defenses.
A January 2021 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of ServiceNow How a Representative Organization Managed Risk 75% more Efficiently For Front Line and Second Line Employees.
This Forrester Study provides a framework and customer example to help readers evaluate the potential financial...
To protect manufacturing operations and data, there are some important cybersecurity gaps to address. Cybersecurity company Lookout explains how to close the five most common security gaps in manufacturing, which are created as a result of digital transformation.
Many employees are likely to begin looking for the flexibility and ease that remote work offers even as the pandemic wanes, turning many previously in-person government workplaces into hybrid ones.
As agencies begin to support a more permanent remote future, it’s critical that they build security in every step of...
John "Chris" Inglis says one of his first priorities as national cyber director within the White House is focusing on issues of cyber resiliency. Battling ransomware and coordinating government responses with the private sector are also top issues he's tackling.
In the latest weekly update, four editors at Information Security Media Group discuss important cybersecurity issues, including the evolution of fraud trends and the challenges in implementing the "zero trust" framework in the OT environment.
The World Bank has launched a cybersecurity fund for low- and middle-income nations to support public sector efforts to conduct cybersecurity maturity assessments, offer technical assistance and support training and staff development.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of the cybercrime-as-a-service model and how law enforcement could potentially disrupt it. Also featured: T-Mobile probes a massive data breach; tackling abuse in the workplace.
The inevitable digital transformation was accelerated by the pandemic. Before 2020, remote work was reserved for a select few and generally not encouraged. According to Forrester, the number of permanent, full-time remote workers is expected to increase by 300% or more from pre-pandemic levels. Global Workplace...
The Center for Internet Security (CIS) emphasizes continuous vulnerability management in its top 10 security controls. Given the complexity of the current digital landscape, many organizations face greater cyber-risk today. Adding to this woe is the rate at which vulnerabilities are burgeoning. The coverage of attack...
Managed security service providers need a vendor-agnostic observability tool that centralizes their customers’ growing amounts of data and continues to prioritize cybersecurity, with a focus on pure threat detection and response. Cribl LogStream is the best way for managed security service providers to implement an...
T-Mobile USA says its massive data breach is worse than it first reported: The count of prepaid and postpaid customers whose information was stolen has risen to 14 million. Also revised upward: its count of 40 million exposed credit applications from former customers and prospects.
Following a breach of some of its servers in January 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau failed to follow standard cybersecurity practices, including properly maintaining logs of the incident to assist in an investigation, according to an inspector general's report made public this week.
A Nigeria-based ransomware gang is conducting a campaign that dangles a $1 million bribe - or a portion of any ransom collected - to employees of targeted organizations if they will install DemonWare ransomware on their corporate network.
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