ISMG’s 2024 Financial Services Cybersecurity Summit kicks off Thursday in New York City, bringing together industry leaders and cyber experts to explore critical defense strategies, including digital identity protection, SecOps transformation and realistic threat simulations.
The director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Monday the agency has not seen any evidence of material threats that could sway the nationwide results, despite escalating claims of fraud from the Republican presidential nominee.
In its fraud case against SolarWinds, the SEC is pursuing testimony from former SolarWinds engineer Robert Krajcir - who lives in the Czech Republic - to address claims of lax cybersecurity practices. SolarWinds - which is also representing Krajcir - has until Friday to respond to the SEC's motion.
A small community hospital and its nursing home in rural Georgia have resorted to paper charts and other manual process for patient care as they deal with a ransomware attack discovered Saturday that knocked its electronic health records and other IT systems offline.
Australia's Western Sydney University said hackers breached its student management system and data warehouse to steal students' demographic and enrollment information in the third data theft incident of 2024. The hacker gained unauthorized access by compromising an IT account.
For anyone dreaming of law enforcement agencies arresting ransomware bigwigs, or intelligence agencies taking them out with drone strikes, keep on hoping. But here's good news: ransom payments haven't skyrocketed, as disruptions by law enforcement appear to be having an impact.
Dr. James Breit recalled the day a hacker locked up his systems with ransomware at his plastic surgery practice. He paid $53,000 in ransom. Nearly, seven years later, after paying a $500,000 HIPAA fine, Breit claims he got better treatment from the cybercriminals than he did federal regulators.
A ransomware attack on German pharmaceutical distributor AEP detected Monday has not led to medication shortages so far, report local media. AEP disclosed Wednesday that hackers successfully encrypted some of its IT systems. Pharmacies usually work with several wholesalers.
Western governments should take a page from China's cybersecurity playbook and sponsor sector-specific capture-the-flag competitions, not just for talent development and recruitment but also to help forge strong "social bonds," says a new report from Washington think tank Atlantic Council.
This week: S&P said poor material vulnerability remediaton can be a material risk factor, OnePoint in the United States and French ISP Free suffered data breaches, a Russian court sentenced REvil members, Five Eyes published security guidelines for small businesses.
Cryptocurrency-seeking hackers are increasingly targeting macOS users. So warn security researchers as they track a rise in macOS backdoors and information-stealing malware, much of which traces back to a well-known cryptocurrency heist culprit: North Korea.
Firewall maker Sophos disclosed Thursday a half-decade worth of efforts by multiple nation-state Chinese hacking groups to infiltrate its appliances, calling the admission a wake-up call for the cybersecurity industry. Targeting firewall appliances is a known nation-state tactic.
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A Colorado-based pathology laboratory is notifying more than 1.8 million patients that their sensitive information was compromised in an April hack, one of the largest breaches reported by a medical testing lab to U.S. federal regulators to date. Ransomware gang Medusa is blamed for the attack.
In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discussed the impact of recent law enforcement operations against ransomware gangs, the state of U.S. election security on the eve of the presidential election, and the key trends emerging from recent ISMG industry roundtables and summits.
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