This week, a breach at real estate firm Wealth Network exposed 1.5 billion records, Corewell Health patients were hit by a second breach, data of 1.3M LoanCare mortgage customers was exposed, and Yakult Australia admitted to experiencing a "cybersecurity incident" that exposed 95 gigabytes of data.
Legacy medical gear continues to pose big cyber challenges to healthcare entities. A joint report by the Food and Drug Administration and MITRE Corp. emphasizes the importance of entities taking a consistent risk-based approach to managing these and other devices, said Jessica Wilkerson of the FDA.
The U.S. Department of Defense released a draft of a long-awaited proposed rule for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program that aims to simplify compliance, enhance public-private coordination and better protect sensitive information from cyberthreats.
Hacks on healthcare sector entities reached record levels in 2023 in terms of data breaches. But the impact of hacks on hospital chains, doctors' offices and other medical providers - or their critical vendors - goes much deeper than the exposure of millions of health records.
Explore the future of enterprise security as analysts foresee a shift to passwordless authentication, addressing the issues of cost, user experience, and vulnerability, in a concise video.
Ground control to the space industry: Take your static cybersecurity practices and upgrade them to a dynamic model. So says NASA's first-ever security best practices guide for space communications, part of an effort to make mission security requirements more accessible.
Senior analyst Alla Valente discusses Forrester's "Predictions 2024: Cybersecurity, Risk and Privacy" report, which outlines five predictions to help security, risk and privacy leaders prepare for the coming year. She also discusses the significance of governance and accountability in the use of AI.
Marc Lueck, EMEA CISO at Zscaler, describes generative AI as the bridge between traditional AI and machine learning. He said it offers the ability to engage in humanlike conversations while tapping into vast data repositories and is both a powerful defense mechanism and a potential vulnerability.
All has not been quiet on the malicious cybersecurity front this year, thanks to constant cybercrime innovation, cyberattacks and cyberespionage, and malicious or inadvertent data breaches. Here are 12 notable incidents and trends of 2023 and their implications for the bigger cybersecurity picture.
A new GAO report says federal agencies fail to provide health are providers and patients with enough resources and information to address critical vulnerabilities in a majority of medical devices in the U.S. that can result in "potential catastrophic impact to hospital operations and patient care."
In the latest weekly update, two analysts at Forrester - Allie Mellen and Jeff Pollard - join three editors at ISMG to discuss important cybersecurity issues, including CISOs' primary inquiries about AI/ML, how organizations can thwart data poisoning attacks, and practical use cases for AI.
Microsoft said Iranian state hackers are using a newly developed backdoor to target organizations in the American defense industrial base. The Iranian state threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Peach Sandstorm employed a custom backdoor named FalseFont.
With the surge in major cyber incidents involving third-party suppliers, it's critical for healthcare sector entities to raise their security expectations and tighten their requirements for vendors handling sensitive data, said Renee Broadbent, CIO of Southern New England Healthcare.
Google rolled out security updates Wednesday for its Chrome web browser to fix a critical vulnerability exploited in the wild. The zero-day vulnerability is a heap-based buffer overflow bug in the WebRTC framework that allows real-time communication between different browsers and devices.
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