A report on the head of Equifax contending that his company - not individual consumers - owns the personally identifiable information the credit reporting agency markets to lenders leads the latest version of the ISMG Security Report. Also, a preview of the ISMG Healthcare Security Summit.
French cloud computing and hosting giant OVH has apologized to customers after it suffered an outage that left many individuals unable to access websites, email accounts, online databases and other infrastructure. In response, it's promised to be much more paranoid.
The financial sector is under increasing threat from cybercrime syndicates, and the distributed nature of today's predominantly Russian-speaking attackers is making them tough to disrupt, says Rob Wainwright, director of Europol.
The FBI is still working to unlock the mobile phone of Devin P. Kelley after he shot and killed 26 people in a church in a rural Texas town. The revelation seems certain to revive the contentious debate over the use of strong encryption to protect consumers and their devices.
The global cybersecurity skills shortage is real, and it's deeply impacting organizations' abilities to implement and manage new technology tools, says Lee Fisher of Juniper Networks. But worse, it's also affecting how organizations assess their adversaries.
The former CEO of Yahoo, which has had 3 billion records exposed in a 2013 data breach, testified at a Senate hearing that it's tough for any corporation to defend against nation-state backed cyberattacks. That led senators to grill Marissa Mayer about the security steps Yahoo had taken.
Ransomware and other cyberattacks will be the biggest health technology hazard in 2018, according to the ECRI Institute. It's the first time the patient safety research organization has listed cyber issues as the top threat.
Researchers have discovered how to speed up an attack disclosed last month that recovers secret RSA encryption keys generated by faulty Infineon software in TPM chips. Estonia has blocked and plans to replace weak security certificates on 750,000 of its smart ID cards used for healthcare and e-voting.
Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer may have envisioned spending her post-Yahoo days seeking new work or experimenting with other search engines. Instead, she gets to sit in a Senate hot seat alongside former Equifax CEO Richard Smith, defending past data breach response decisions.
The acting director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management cites "audit fatigue" as a factor that explains why the federal agency, which experienced a massive data breach in 2015, continues to come up short in securing its information systems.
The ISMG Security Report leads with a discussion about the sale of compromised remote desktop protocol credentials for as little as $3 on darknet marketplaces. Also, grading the performance of DHS in sharing cyberthreat information.
CISO Mitchell Parker of Indiana University Health says healthcare organizations that have focused on HIPAA compliance when crafting security and privacy policies need to be making plans to comply with the EU's GDPR if they handle Europeans' data. How will that influence decisions about data protection?
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Information Security Media Group's Healthcare Security Summit in New York on Nov. 14-15 will feature a top-notch lineup of more than 40 experts, including leading CISOs, who will explore such issues as battling ransomware, improving medical device security and beefing up breach prevention.
A whistle-blower false claims lawsuit filed against electronic health records vendor Epic Systems raises the issue of whether the company's billing software can be used to support fraud.
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