Privacy groups are urging European lawmakers finalizing the global treaty on artificial intelligence to tighten rules surrounding the use of AI by the private sector and states. Lawmakers and other country representatives are set to meet for final negotiations on the treaty on March 11.
Two weeks into a major cyberattack-induced outage at its Change Healthcare business, UnitedHealth Group is offering short-term financial aid to some healthcare providers whose cash flows may be running short because of the disruption in insurance payments. But not everyone is impressed.
A new report from the Office of the National Cyber Director calls for the universal adoption of memory-safe programming languages, but experts warned ISMG the process of overhauling legacy information technology and high-impact code can be daunting, costly and risky.
An Indian government advisory that requires tech companies to obtain government approval to deploy AI platforms has raised fears that too much regulation could stifle AI development in the country. Union Minister Chandrasekhar clarified that the requirement does not apply to startup companies.
Knowing how competent we are and how we stack up against peers gives us the ability to decide when we can proceed based on our own experience and when we need to seek advice. But psychological research says we are lousy at evaluating our own capabilities and frequently overestimate our skills.
The Change Healthcare mega hack has taken nearly 120 of the company's IT products and services offline since Feb. 21, and that cyber disruption is having serious, widespread impact on the entire healthcare industry including major players, said attorney Sara Goldstein of the law firm BakerHostetler.
A defunct U.K. Home Office pilot project that tracked the whereabouts of 600 migrants violated British privacy law, the British data regulator said early Friday in London, giving the agency a deadline of nearly a month to bring its data processing requirements under compliance.
Officials from the U.S. Coast Guard Cyber Command told lawmakers Thursday the military branch is building out deployable teams of cybersecurity protection units and taking advantage of expanded authorities under a recent executive order to better protect Americas modern maritime infrastructure.
Ransomware group Rhysida is offering to sell "exclusive data" stolen from a Chicago children's hospital for $3.4 million on the dark web, while the hospital is still struggling to recover its IT systems, including its electronic health records and patient portal, one month after the attack.
The U.S. presidential election is still eight months away, but the FBI is already seeing its share of cyberattacks, nation-state threats and AI-generated deepfakes. According to FBI Agent Robert K. Tripp, "We're no longer considering threats as a what-if situation; it's happening now."
Is Moscow using the Russian-speaking LockBit ransomware group as a tool to disrupt critical infrastructure and democracy in the West? While no publicly available evidence reveals direct ties, what are the chances that the prolific, trash-talking group has escaped authorities' attention - or demands?
First-party fraudsters have shifted their focus from credit card fraud to deposit scams. In this evolving threat environment, financial institutions face new challenges from the increased use of synthetic identities and the difficulties in classifying first-party fraud, said BioCatch's Seth Ruden.
BlackCat claimed on its dark web site that it is behind the biggest healthcare hack so far the year - exfiltrating 6 terabytes of "highly selective data" relating to "all" Change Healthcare clients, including Tricare, Medicare, CVS Caremark, MetLife and more.
Microsoft once again finds itself in the crosshairs of antitrust regulators, this time for practices around its Entra ID identity management tool. The European Commission is probing whether Microsoft prevents customers from buying security software that competes with its own, The Information said.
Has the U.S. created the wrong war machine? Developing and deploying advanced military technologies involves balancing the desire to improve national security with the need to navigate the ethical, strategic and existential challenges these technologies present.
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