European electoral and cybersecurity authorities on Tuesday held a joint exercise assessing plans to hold an incident-free election, weeks after trading bloc cybersecurity agency ENISA said the election is at risk from deepfake images and videos.
The Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously to approve the use of civil investigative demands for investigations related to the use of artificial intelligence, after a White House executive order on AI tasked the commission with policing competition and protecting consumers.
In the latest "Proof of Concept," Zscaler's Sam Curry and Venable's Heather West join ISMG editors to discuss the implications of President Biden's executive order on AI, how AI enhances security review processes, the potential for AI to spot software flaws, and challenges of AI talent acquisition.
FBI officials said Wednesday that the federal government is preventing advanced ransomware attacks targeting a range of institutions with the help of new information-sharing and victim engagement initiatives with organizations across the public and private sectors.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said it was setting up a variety of real-time initiatives to provide technical support and cybersecurity assistance for election offices nationwide, including an Election Day operations center and a virtual cyber situational awareness room.
The Department of Defense has published guidance calling for the rapid and responsible deployment of artificial intelligence systems across its entire enterprise while emphasizing continuous experimentation, iterative feedback loops between experts and users and enhanced data and analytics programs.
Secretaries of state and election administrators told the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration that local election offices are facing a critical lack of resources and funding to support essential cybersecurity measures ahead of the upcoming voting cycle.
Members of Congress don't agree on much these days. But a new bipartisan working group launched in the Senate on Thursday hopes to rally congressional support for potential legislation focused on improving the state of cybersecurity in the healthcare sector.
The Department of Homeland Security inspector general found U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees had downloaded "risky user-installed mobile applications" onto government devices despite the devices being banned from federal information systems for posing national security risks.
Security researchers say an Iranian state hacking group is likely using spearfishing and a legitimate content hosting service in a cyberespionage campaign targeted against Israel. The hacker group, tracked as MuddyWater, likely mounted a new campaign after the onset of the Israel-Hamas war.
Harry Coker, the former executive director of the National Security Agency, told lawmakers he will take a "whole of government" approach to bolstering national cybersecurity if confirmed to serve as the second-ever permanent national cyber director, a post that has remained vacant for five months.
Oren Eytan spent 25 years in the Israel Defense Forces, rising to the rank of colonel and heading the IDF's cybersecurity unit. Now, as CEO of odix, an Israeli cybersecurity vendor, he is helping his country rebound from the Oct. 7 attacks and support the nation's war against Hamas.
North Korean hackers are spreading malware through known vulnerabilities in legitimate software. In a new campaign spotted by Kaspersky researchers, the Lazarus group is targeting a version of an unnamed software product for which vulnerabilities have been reported and patches are available.
"We're doing fine, but we're not OK." This was the opening comment from Michael Yehoshua, CMO of HolistiCyber, discussing the impact of the Israel-Hamas war. Yehoshua shared his insights about the conflict, its historic perspective and how his and other Israeli companies are focused on resilience.
Genetics testing firm 23andme is facing intensifying scrutiny in the wake of a credential-stuffing hack that leaked genetic ancestry information of potentially millions of customers. That includes at least 16 proposed federal class action lawsuits and an inquiry by a high-ranking U.S. senator.
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