IT infrastructure mainstays including NetScaler, Atlassian and VMware on Tuesday released fixes for vulnerabilities including some allowing malicious takeover of appliances. NetScaler warned customers Tuesday of two zero-day vulnerabilities that researchers say are being exploited in the wild.
Google released an urgent fix for the first zero-day vulnerability of the year in its Chrome web browser, warning the bug is under active exploitation. Google blamed an out-of-bounds memory access flaw in its V8 JavaScript rendering engine. It also affects Microsoft Edge browser.
It's last call for Drizly, the alcohol delivery service Uber bought for $1.1 billion in 2021. Whether or not Drizly's past cybersecurity missteps - leading to a two-decade consent agreement with regulators - played any part in its being retired by Uber remains unclear.
The ubiquity and anonymity of cryptocurrencies are fueling economic, legal and ethical challenges that put healthcare entities in the crosshairs of cybercriminals, said David Hoffman, general counsel of Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center, which recently filed a lawsuit against ransomware gang LockBit.
The British data regulator is set to analyze the privacy implications of processing scraped data used for training generative artificial intelligence algorithms. The Information Commissioner's Office is soliciting comments from AI developers, legal experts and other industry stakeholders.
Mimecast, the cloud security firm specializing in email and cyber resilience, has appointed a new CEO after co-founder Peter Bauer served in the chief executive role since the company's inception in 2003. The leadership transition comes less than two years after the company went private.
Federal agencies are making significant headway in achieving a series of critical cybersecurity milestones included in a sweeping executive order on artificial intelligence the president signed in October 2023, according to White House Special Advisor for AI Ben Buchanan.
A North Carolina healthcare system has agreed to pay $6.6 million to settle a consolidated class action lawsuit involving its use of tracking tools in its websites and patient portals. The suit alleges the website trackers sent sensitive patient information to third parties without their consent.
Digital money is energizing Southeast Asian organized crime as a method for money laundering and as a way of reaping new revenue, warn experts who say that tether plays a heavy role in the rapidly evolving state of law-breaking in Myanmar, Thailand and elsewhere.
Cryptocurrency phishing scams designed to send crypto owners to fake versions of legitimate sites, recently disseminated via hijacked high-profile social media accounts, highlight the ongoing use of drainer scam-as-a-service offerings, which researchers say last year led to $295 million in losses.
Extended Detection and Response (XDR) has evolved significantly over the past few years, becoming more critical than ever for organizations in need of enhanced capabilities. But so, too, have the accompanying managed services evolved. Port53 Technologies President Omar Zarabi explains.
Estimates of the number of devices affected by a duo of zero-days in a popular corporate VPN made by software developer Ivanti have skyrocketed from fewer than 10 to over 1,700. The flaws affect the firm's Connect Secure VPN appliance, formerly known as Pulse Secure, and Ivanti Policy Secure.
Robert Blumofe, executive vice president and CTO at Akamai, expects social engineering, phishing, extortion and AI-driven attacks to dominate the threat landscape. He advised enterprises to use FIDO2-based MFA, zero trust, microsegmentation and API security to reduce risks.
Thermostats sold across the globe by German multinational engineering company Bosch contained a flaw allowing hackers to cut power to the heating system and override the firmware, warn researchers from cybersecurity firm Bitdefender. Bosch pushed an over-the-air update in October.
Consumer groups continue to fight for banks to reimburse victims of authorized push payment scams, but regulators in some countries including the United Kingdom and Australia are looking for ways to tighten controls, said Ken Palla, fraud expert and retired director at MUFG Union Bank.
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