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.
The explosion in applications using genomic data - from drug and vaccine development and consumer ancestry testing to law enforcement work - is heightening the need to carefully address critical privacy and security concerns around this sensitive data, government authorities say in a new report.
The Federal Trade Commission has banned Rite Aid from using AI-based facial recognition technology for security surveillance for five years after the retail drug store chain failed to implement safeguards such as mitigating risks for inaccurate outputs based on race and gender.
Comcast says attackers stole personal information pertaining to 35.9 million customers of its Xfinity-branded TV, internet and home telephone services in an October attack that targeted a vulnerability - dubbed Citrix Bleed - present in NetScaler and Citrix networking equipment.
Okta finalized an agreement to acquire Spera Security, saying the purchase will expand its ability to track risky accounts and access misconfigurations. Spera, a Tel Aviv startup, touts itself as a tool for giving security teams "real-time visibility into their entire identity surface."
Marta Rybczyńska, technical program manager at Eclipse Foundation, discussed best practices for reporting vulnerabilities, adopting AI and bridging the gap between developers and security researchers to adhere to cybersecurity best practices for open-source software.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure and Security Agency is urging health sector entities to take critical steps in fortifying their environments based on findings from a risk and vulnerability assessment performed by the federal agency on a healthcare industry organization earlier this year.
Vulnerability researcher Jesse Chick busted the tacit assumption that data centers are inherently more secure than other computing environments. Devices that are co-located in large data centers and those hosted on-premises share a lot of the same issues and vulnerabilities, he said.
As a legacy protocol, DICOM lacks proper security measures, and as the healthcare industry modernizes and moves to the cloud, there is a significant risk of patient data exposure, said Sina Yazdanmehr, a senior IT security consultant at Aplite.
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