It doesn't appear to be a cyberattack, security experts said of the hundreds of pagers that blew up Tuesday across Lebanon, an apparent salvo against Hezbollah militants by the Israeli government. "The only logical explanation is that explosives and a side channel for detonation was likely used."
While cyberthreats facing healthcare continue to evolve, security leaders must juggle a variety of cyber and related tech challenges, said Shawn Parker and Quincy Raybon, IT leaders at two elder medical care providers, and Ram Vaidyanathan of security firm ManageEngine.
The healthcare sector is plagued by increasingly complex cyberthreats, and simply meeting compliance standards is not doing enough to protect sensitive healthcare data, according to Christopher Frenz, assistant vice president of IT security at Mount Sinai South Nassau.
Many organizations are moving too slowly towards addressing the human risk elements of security. At the heart of this lies a misunderstanding of human risk factors - with many believing the only contributors are Knowledge & understanding (85%) and Security behaviors (15%).
Recent CybSafe analysis suggests there are...
Data warehousing platform Snowflake rolled out default MFA - as well as a 14-character password minimum - to shore up security in the wake of a series of cyberattacks in June that hit high-profile customers including Santander Bank, Advance Auto Parts, LA Unified School District and Neiman Marcus.
Customers of internet appliance maker Ivanti face yet another hackable vulnerability. The Utah company warned customers Friday about exploitation of a Cloud Service Appliance detected in the wild. Ivanti said the vulnerability doesn't affect version 5; it released a patch on Sept. 10.
Preparing healthcare organizations to respond to and rebound from a disruptive ransomware attack is akin to implementing a "12-step program," said Dr. Eric Liederman, CEO of consultancy CyberSolutionsMD and recently retired long-serving director of medical informatics at Kaiser Permanente.
Excessive deployment of remote access tools in operational technology environments expands attack surfaces and creates operational challenges, warn security researchers from Claroty. Remote access tools are essential, but they introduce numerous potential vulnerabilities that threat actors exploit.
In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discussed the fallout from the CrowdStrike global IT outage on endpoint security tools, Mastercard's monumental acquisition of Recorded Future to bolster its cybersecurity portfolio, and the latest efforts by U.S. officials to secure the 2024 election.
Welcome to Information Security Media Group's Black Hat and DEF CON 2024 Compendium featuring latest insights from the industry's top cybersecurity researchers and ethical hackers, as well as perspectives from CEOs, CISOs and government officials on the latest trends in cybersecurity and AI.
Authentication requiring stored credentials is not only vulnerable to phishing and other compromises, but using these credentials can also be cumbersome for busy clinicians, said Tina Srivastava, co-founder of Badge, a provider of deviceless, tokenless authentication technology.
Your personal information is continuously harvested and analyzed by countless data brokers eager to sell to the highest bidder. From your name to your online activities, to your employment details and even your real-time location - all are on the market for anyone interested.
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Cutting kernel mode dependencies and adopting safe deployment practices will make endpoint systems more resilient and secure for Windows customers. Tuesday's meeting came two months after a faulty CrowdStrike update disrupted 8.5 million Windows machines and caused $5.4 billion in direct losses.
Data integrity, collection, analytics - they all are essential for compliance reporting, and yet each remains a challenge for enterprises across business sectors. Siva Vrs of Wipro discussed the pain points with compliance in the cloud era and Wipro's partnership with AWS to alleviate them.
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An AI-powered virtual care provider's unsecured database allegedly exposed thousands of sensitive mental health and substance abuse treatment records between patients and their counselors on the internet - where they were available to anyone, said the security researcher who discovered the trove.
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