Join Acronis experts Markus Bauer, Senior Technology Evangelist, EMEA, and Irina Artioli, Cyber Protection Evangelist for a live webinar on the latest ransomware threats and how to protect your MSP clients in 2023. The latest statistics indicate that ransomware remains the top concern for MSPs in 2023, with...
The Los Angeles Unified School District confirmed that records containing mental health data and other sensitive information of about 2,000 students, including 60 current pupils, were among data leaked in a ransomware attack last fall by Russian hacking group Vice Society.
The European Commission is preparing a proposal mandating more cooperation among national government agencies charged with enforcing the General Data Protection Regulation. Nationally driven enforcement of the regulation has emerged as a sore point for some during the GDPR's first half decade.
Having an incident response plan in place is essential for any engineering organization. A plan helps keep every person, tool, and process involved in your incident response workflow working together cohesively. Oftentimes, incident
response workflows are reactive, disorganized processes that move slower than...
AT&T wants to unload its cyber assets just five years after doubling down on security through its $600 million purchase of threat intelligence vendor AlienVault. The Dallas-based carrier has been working with British banking firm Barclays to solicit bids for its cybersecurity business, Reuters said.
The cybersecurity industry experienced a dramatic drop-off in funding, stock prices and M&A activity as the economic downturn took hold in late 2022. Venture capital financing tumbled to $18.5 billion in 2022, 39% lower than the record-breaking $30.4 billion invested in 2021, Momentum Cyber found.
Cyberthreats have become more aggressive in recent years, as advanced persistent threats elude detection through stealth and ransomware attacks maximize damages through speed. Devastating data theft campaigns, costly cyber extortion, and hidden zero-day exploits represent a looming sword of Damocles for wary CISOs....
Two recent separate hacking incidents involving attackers stealing copies of sensitive protected health information have affected more than 1 million patients of a New Jersey healthcare system and an Alabama cardiovascular clinic. Victims get free credit monitoring and identity restoration services.
Ireland's child and family agency, Tusla, says it is beginning a months-long process to notify 20,000 individuals that their personal information was exposed in the May 2021 ransomware attack against the Health Service Executive, which formerly managed Tusla's IT systems.
Federal regulators are working on proposed rule to modify HIPAA to better safeguard the privacy of reproductive health data. The Biden administration last year already issued guidance about the application of the HIPAA Privacy Rule to information about reproductive health.
Darktrace has brought in Ernst & Young to review the cybersecurity AI vendor's financial process and controls following bombshell allegations from short seller Quintessential Capital Management. The review comes weeks after QCM claimed that Darktrace overstated its sales, margins and growth rates.
The attorneys general of Pennsylvania and Ohio have slapped a DNA testing lab with HIPAA settlements totaling $400,000 in the wake of a 2021 hack of a legacy database that affected 2.1 million individuals nationwide, including nearly 46,000 consumers in the two states.
Airbus has made a formal offer to purchase a 29.9% stake in Atos' $4.8 billion Evidian cybersecurity, big data and digital business. Atos says it will initiate negotiations focused on both Airbus' offer and a long-term strategic and technological partnership between the two organizations.
Forcepoint's new Security Service Edge offering allows clients to apply access, threat or data loss protection policies across all channels as soon as they're implemented. The firm long offered DLP, SD-WAN, SWG and CASB tools, but the lack of full integration made it tough to apply unified policies.
The U.S. government on Thursday unveiled a task force aimed at preventing advanced technology from reaching repressive regimes, including the People's Republic of China. The task force will be led by personnel in the departments of Justice and Commerce.
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