A nursing home operator is seeking bankruptcy protection, citing the effects of a ransomware attack last fall and fallout from the recent Change Healthcare outage as factors that contributed to its financial woes. Also, a Senate bill aims to address cash flows for some health firms hit by an attack.
The 2024 Economic Report of the President includes a chapter on artificial intelligence that warns of the risks associated with AI-fueled job displacement and discrimination. The report also highlights the benefits associated with the federal government harnessing AI tools.
In the latest weekly update, four editors discussed ISMG's plans for in-depth and diverse coverage at the 2024 RSA conference, the latest guidance on web trackers from federal regulators and the latest forecasts on quantum computing - and why security teams should care.
Ongoing, rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence tools and large language models, including fewer barriers to illicit use, presage their increased use by cybercriminal and nation-state cyber operators to bolster sophisticated operations, cybersecurity officials and insurers warn.
Chief information security officers are challenged with building high-functioning cybersecurity teams amid an impossible labor and skills market. Here are strategies they can use to assemble teams capable of defending their organizations against the myriad of cyberthreats they face daily.
A likely Chinese hacker-for-hire used high-profile vulnerabilities in a campaign targeting a slew of Southeast Asian and U.S. governmental and research organizations, says threat intel firm Mandiant. Rapid exploitation of newly patched flaws has become a hallmark of Chinese threat actors.
The U.S. Department of Justice in a lawsuit filed Thursday is accusing Apple of discarding user security and privacy protections as part of a broader effort to maintain dominance in the national smartphone market. A spokesperson for the tech giant told ISMG the lawsuit threatens the entire company.
Skyhigh Security snagged longtime Cloudera and Splunk executive Vishal Rao as its next CEO to capture more opportunities in the growing security service edge market. Rao replaces Gee Rittenhouse, who left the company Feb. 29 to become AWS' vice president for security services.
Artificial intelligence technologies such as generative AI are not helping fraudsters create new types of scams. They are doing just fine relying on the traditional scams, but the advent of AI is helping them scale up attacks and snare more victims, according to researchers at Visa.
The United Nations on Thursday unanimously adopted a U.S.-brokered first-ever international resolution promoting the safe use of artificial intelligence. The adoption of the resolution comes at a time when governments are vying to exert influence and lead global governance in the nascent technology.
A new type of denial-of-service threat can disrupt an estimated 300,000 internet hosts that are at risk of exploitation. Researchers at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security say attackers are using IP spoofing to entangle two servers in a perpetual communication loop.
This week, FTX emergency CEO John Ray filleted previous CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, the SEC charged 17 members in a $300 million Ponzi scheme, Hong Kong warned against Bybit, reports said North Korea made half of its revenue from cyberattacks, and police rescued hundreds from a pig-butchering scam center.
Revenue cycle management firm MedData has agreed to a $7 million settlement in a class action lawsuit filed after an employee inadvertently uploaded and exposed the health and personal information of about 136,000 individuals on the public-facing part of GitHub for more than a year.
Synopsys' board of directors signed off Wednesday on selling the company's $525 million application security testing business to focus exclusively on design automation and IP. The systems design behemoth began exploring strategic alternatives for its software integrity group in November.
This week, Flipper Devices petitioned Canada, UnitedHealth Group dealt with its attack, Nemesis Market was seized, phishers fooled ML, AceCryptor returned to Europe, Brazil and Ukraine made arrests, another Ivanti flaw, London rebuked for possible data exposure, and Fujitsu reported malware attack.
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