The European Union adopted regulations on cyber hygiene intended to beef up cybersecurity at EU government agencies amid concerns that trading bloc institutions have failed to keep pace with mounting digital threats. European agencies lack "cyber preparedness commensurate with the threat."
Cybercriminals are extorting some patients and threatening them with swatting in the wake of a recent cyberattack on a Seattle cancer center. The incident, stemming from a Citrix Bleed exploit, has triggered multiple lawsuits and affected the personal data of at least 1 million people.
Criminals have built highly successful business models by hacking into a wide range of organizations at will. University professor John Walker warned that the world is witnessing the unintended consequences of our collective inability to secure assets - kinetic threats to global stability.
Fallout is mounting, and new developments are emerging in several high-profile health data hacks. Data breaches reported in recent weeks and months at a medical transcription vendor, a hospital chain and a law firm are affecting a growing list of clients and individuals - and triggering lawsuits.
Australian travel company Inspiring Vacations is investigating a misconfigured cloud database that exposed passport details and the personal information of tens of thousands of travelers. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler said the database leaked 112,000 passport scans and identity documents.
Ivanti issued an urgent alert to users of its endpoint security product to patch a critical vulnerability that exposes systems to potential exploitation by unauthorized attackers. The SQL injection vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-39336 is in all supported versions of Ivanti Endpoint Manager.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it has wrapped up its investigation of the xDedic dark web marketplace and successfully dismantled the multinational criminal organizations, leading to charges against 19 individuals, including administrators, developers and customer service reps.
Mimecast announced the acquisition of human risk management solutions specialist Elevate Security as part of its initiative to enhance digital workplace protection. The move aims to address evolving cyberthreats by offering insights into human behaviors and risks and empowering customers.
A proposed settlement has been reached between Merck & Co. and several insurers that were appealing a 2023 court decision saying the insurance companies could not invoke "hostile warlike action" exclusions in refusing to pay drugmakers' claims filed after the 2017 NotPetya cyberattack.
In the wake of an apparently weak password being harvested by information-stealing malware and used to disrupt telecommunications giant Orange Spain's internet traffic, an expert is warning all organizations to beware of copycat attacks - and to lock down their internet registry accounts.
In the latest weekly update, four ISMG editors discussed the number of ransomware victims who are paying a ransom to cybercriminals, the need for greater cyber resilience during wartime, and the critical role of human risk management in organizational cybersecurity in the era of remote work.
It's a new year, but federal regulators are beating an old HIPAA drum: The Department of Health and Human Services has hit a New Jersey medical practice with a $160,000 settlement in the agency's 46th enforcement action involving HIPAA complaint about right of access to health records.
Accenture has finalized its acquisition of U.K. tech consultancy firm 6point6, which specializes in cybersecurity, cloud and digital transformation solutions. The acquisition will add 6point6's 400 staffers to Accenture in support of its business in the U.K. market.
An upstate New York hospital group has filed a lawsuit against cybercriminal group LockBit in a legal maneuver aimed at forcing a Boston-based cloud services firm to turn over patient data LockBit had stolen from the entities last summer and allegedly stored on the tech company's servers.
Mobile password managers are different from computer-based password managers due to different constraints found in the mobile operating system, said Ankit Gangwal, assistant professor at the International Institute of Information Technology. He shed light on the risks introduced by AutoSpill.
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