A commercial real estate company that operates more than a dozen addiction recovery centers and other medical facilities in several states is notifying 319,500 employees and patients of a recent ransomware incident that compromised their personal and health information.
Federal regulators have hit Washington state-based Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital with a $240,000 HIPAA fine and correction action plan following a 2018 breach involving 23 hospital security guards who snooped into the electronic medical records of 419 patients.
European lawmakers on Thursday denounced the commercial spyware industry and chastised half a dozen member nations for deploying spyware against citizens or selling it abroad. "Spyware is part of the toolkit of authoritarians who undermine democracies," said Dutch MP Sophie in 't Veld.
Chinese hackers in a state-run operation compromised hundreds of organizations through a zero-day vulnerability in a popular email security appliance, warns cyber threat intelligence firm Mandiant. Hackers used a zero-day vulnerability in Barracuda Networks Email Security Gateway appliances.
"Insurance is a tool," said Libby Benet, the global chief underwriting officer for AXA XL. "When you buy an insurance policy, you are buying a network of professional crisis managers." In this episode of "Cybersecurity Insights," Benet discussed present and future cybersecurity insurance issues.
Microsoft's June dump of patches for the first time in months doesn't include a fix for an actively exploited zero-day in a slew of fixes for 69 vulnerabilities spread across the computing giant's portfolio of products. Among them are SharePoint, Exchange and servers that enable multicasting.
A French conglomerate will buy Australia's largest publicly traded cybersecurity company to expand its cyber service delivery capability in the high-growth Oceania market. The Tesserent deal will help Thales to accelerate its development road map and boost its footprint in Australia and New Zealand.
A company that makes patient debt collection software is the latest healthcare sector entity to report a hacking breach related to a flaw in Fortra's GoAnywhere secure file transfer software. To date, the GoAnywhere vulnerability has affected the health information of 4.4 million individuals.
Fortinet has patched a critical vulnerability affecting Fortigate Secure Sockets Layer network VPN devices that allow remote network access. French security firm Olympe uncovered the vulnerability and said the flaw can be exploited without credentials and can bypass multifactor authentication.
The company behind the MOVEit managed file transfer application is urging customers into a new round of emergency patching after identifying additional vulnerabilities. "These newly discovered vulnerabilities are distinct from the previously reported vulnerability," said Progress Software.
Moore Strategic Ventures led a $33 million investment into a military and transportation security startup founded by officers who stood up U.S. Army Cyber Command. The funds will help Shift5 expand from safeguarding military vehicles to protecting commercial modes of transportation.
An April ransomware attack that compromised the personal information of more than 2.5 million individuals has triggered at least four proposed federal class action lawsuits against Massachusetts health insurer Harvard Pilgrim Health and its parent company, Point32Health.
As cloud migration continues across regions and sectors, how are organizations choosing security tools, and how are those tools being operationalized? Which practices are producing the best security outcomes? Explore these cloud security tips from Palo Alto Networks' Ben Nicholson.
CISOs need to bridge the gap between security concerns and business outcomes to ensure everyone plays an active role in third-party risk management. But effectively communicating that risk comes down to knowing your audience - from employees to the board, said CyberGRX's Caitlin Gruenberg.
Ransomware hackers are stretching the concept of code reuse to the limit as they confront the specter of diminishing returns for extortionate malware. In their haste to make money, some new players are picking over the discarded remnants of previous ransomware groups.
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