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 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, 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.
In the latest "Proof of Concept," panelists Sam Curry of Zscaler and Heather West of Venable LLP discuss the crucial role of explainability and transparency in artificial intelligence, especially in areas such as healthcare and finance, where AI decisions can significantly affect people's lives.
Federal authorities are warning healthcare and public health sector entities of email bomb attacks, a type of denial-of-service attack that can overwhelm email systems and networks and distract victims from other nefarious activities. The incidents can also disrupt clinical and business workflow.
Major technology vendors keep being hacked by the nation-state hacking group Midnight Blizzard. Essential defenses to combat such attacks begin with implementing log monitoring across multiple platforms to find red flags, said John Fokker, head of threat intelligence at Trellix.
Cybersecurity startups are wary of the public markets following a hard economic reset that made profitability more important than growth and performance more important than potential. Due to this dramatic shift, lots of cybersecurity startups want to file for an IPO, but nobody wants to go first.
Cybereason is carrying out its third round of layoffs in 21 months, and dozens of senior employees are expected to be let go. Among the exiting employees is Zohar Alon, the longtime Dome9 Security leader who joined Cybereason just 11 months ago as president of product and research and development.
As quantum computing looms, experts emphasize the urgency of embracing quantum-safe strategies. They highlight the need for proactive measures to protect digital assets from future breaches, deliver long-term data security and ensure the integrity of encryption.
Data breach blast from the past: Data pertaining to 70 million individuals that the ShinyHunters gang claimed were AT&T customers has been leaked via a hacking forum, three years after criminals first offered it for sale. AT&T said the information didn't appear to have been stolen from its systems.
A new analysis has unearthed that cryptocurrency scammers siphoned off a staggering $43.6 million in 2022. Those who enjoy forensics should have a field day in this domain. From ethical hacking to penetration testing and incident response, there are tons of well-paying opportunities.
A spokesperson for the International Monetary Fund confirmed in a statement to ISMG on Monday that the global economic organization is investigating a February cyber incident that compromised 11 email accounts, all of which have since been re-secured.
A Mississippi women's health clinic has filed a proposed class action lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group alleging the disruption in claims processing caused by the cyberattack on the company's Change Healthcare unit and the resulting IT outage is threatening to push the practice into bankruptcy.
Amazon Web Services hired Gee Rittenhouse to help organizations protect their data and applications in the cloud. Rittenhouse spent more than two years atop San Jose, California-based security service edge vendor Skyhigh and prior to that, more than three years leading Cisco's cybersecurity unit.
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