Embattled social media platform Twitter lost its chiefs of security, privacy and compliance, and the resignations put the company and its new owner, Elon Musk, at greater risk of regulatory enforcement. The company signed a binding two-decade agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in May.
As businesses grow, a key challenge for CISOs is to scale security and at the same time keep it simple, says Jagdish Mahapatra, vice president, Asia, at CrowdStrike. Mahapatra shares the three tenets of cybersecurity for CISOs and how to mitigate the impact of cloud migration on security.
Hacktivists fighting a proxy online battle against Russia after its invasion of Ukraine claim to have dumped online a trove of files from the Central Bank of Russia. The IT Army of Ukraine also claimed to have disrupted payments processing at Moscow's Alfa Bank.
The Red Cross symbol has marked people and facilities off-limits to attack across a century of wars, but security experts are skeptical about a proposal to create a digital Red Cross marker to protect healthcare and humanitarian groups from cyberattacks. The reason? You can't trust cybercriminals.
Microsoft released patches fixing a pair of Exchange vulnerabilities revealed publicly in late September and collectively known as ProxyNotShell. The computing giant assesses with "medium confidence" that state-sponsored hackers have exploited the now-squashed bugs.
A Dutch member of the European Parliament accused the European Union of weakness in the face of a threat to democracy posed by advanced spyware apps such as the NSO Group's Pegasus. Sophie in ’t Veld called for a moratorium on such apps and for a supranational crackdown.
The healthcare industry should be aware of Iranian hackers using social engineering techniques, says the U.S. federal government. Hackers sponsored by Tehran layer on the social media deception, warns the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordinating Center.
When it comes to advanced threat response, most financial institutions say their current abilities are average. Only one-third say automation is crucial to how they identify and respond to threats. This panel of APAC and ANZ experts analyzes the state of security automation in financial services.
It's been a year since Beijing imposed regulations requiring disclosure to authorities of vulnerabilities - a period that correlated with an uptick in zero-day exploitation by Chinese state-backed hackers, says computing giant Microsoft. China is likely stockpiling and weaponizing the disclosures.
Malware activity has increased 28% since last year, and botnet and exploit activity are up over 100%, according to CyberTheory's 2022 Third Quarter Review. CyberTheory Director Steve King says "a new approach to cybersecurity defense" is needed to fight today's cybercrime.
Federal agents seized more than 50,000 in bitcoin stolen from Silk Road a decade ago by a man who until recently owned a Tennessee real estate development firm. James Zhong, 32, pleaded guilty Friday to one count of wire fraud while prosecutors seek to formally claim the cryptocurrency.
A Georgia-based home health and hospice provider will pay $425,000 to Massachusetts to settle litigation stemming from a 2020 breach affecting about 166,000 individuals nationwide. The agreement comes shortly after Aveanna Healthcare settled a proposed class action lawsuit in federal district court.
The British data watchdog says the U.K. Department for Education shouldn't have allowed a private company to use student records to check whether new users of gambling apps were underage. A departmental spokesperson said it will ensure such misuse of the database doesn't reoccur.
Cybersecurity basics are still an overlooked ransomware defense, Lindy Cameron, CEO of the National Cyber Security Center, told the CyberScotland Summit in Scotland. "We still think that 90% of incidents in the U.K. could have been prevented if people had followed the basics," she said.
Embattled Australian private health insurer Medibank says it won't pay hackers' extortion demand, saying it can't trust cybercriminals to delete personal data. A ransomware gang claiming affiliation with REvil is threatening to publish the data, which Medibank says affects 9.7 million individuals.
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