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.
The rapid rise of artificial intelligence technologies poses new risks. Enterprises using AI must regularly scan for prompt injection attacks, implement transparency in the supply chain and reinforce built-in software controls to serve their company's security needs, Microsoft said.
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.
A new phishing campaign is targeting victims through mobile devices by mirroring legitimate login pages for the Federal Communications Commission and large cryptocurrency platforms including Binance and Coinbase. At least 100 victims, including crypto company employees, have fallen for the scam.
Cybersecurity truism: Focusing on the basics helps defenders arrest many of today's top attacks, as well as tomorrow's. While IT defenders have been repeating that mantra for years, experts say it also applies to operational technology environments, including ICS and SCADA systems.
According to a new survey from ISC2, the nonprofit member organization that promotes cybersecurity education, 82% of cybersecurity professionals say AI will improve their job efficiency by helping them conduct analysis, automate tasks, perform monitoring, predict vulnerabilities and block threats.
About 20% of new companies created in the U.K. every day - or some 800 firms - are scams. These fake businesses are being created from an ocean of stolen high-quality data related to real people, making it hard to spot the fraudsters, said Graham Barrow, director of "The Dark Money Files" podcast.
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In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discussed the convergence of the NOC and SOC functions, Scottish Police efforts to address the escalating challenge of cybercrime in Scotland, and why OpenAI is pushing to dismiss certain aspects of The New York Times lawsuit.
Corporate VPN maker Ivanti disputed findings by the U.S. cybersecurity agency that said hackers can establish persistence on rooted appliances through a factory reset but nonetheless released an updated integrity checking tool Tuesday. Ivanti has been in emergency response mode since early January.
In his first week in his new role as interim CEO of SSH Communications Security, Rami Raulas shares insights on the company’s strategic focus on zero trust, operational technology security, and quantum-safe cryptography to address evolving cybersecurity challenges.
Saving passwords in browser-based password managers or via "remember my details" website options might make for simple and fast log-ins for employees, but they also give attackers an easy way to lift legitimate credentials, oftentimes via highly automated, information-stealing malware, experts warn.
Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry said Palo Alto Networks' strategy of offering free products to new platform customers will "unravel over time" as firewalls become shelfware. Legacy vendors find themselves "in a defensive position" as the role of firewalls shrinks and demand for zero trust security grows.
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.
A post-SolarWinds move away from Active Directory Federation Services to Azure AD - now known as Entra ID - didn't necessarily stop hackers from forging single sign-on authentication messages, warn security researchers from Semperis, who unveiled an attack they dub "Silver SAML."
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