The count of known U.S. organizations that fell victim to ransomware last year - whether or not they paid a ransom - surged from 220 to 321, and hospital systems, K-12 school districts and post-secondary schools were especially affected, researchers report.
Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne is set to acquire PingSafe for an undisclosed sum of cash and stock. The move will integrate PingSafe's cloud-native application protection platform into SentinelOne's Singularity Platform, creating a unified and advanced cloud security solution.
State regulators fined a New York hospital $300,000 to settle privacy violations related to the organization's prior use of tracking tools in its websites and patient portal. Regulators said the hospital violated HIPAA rules in sharing patient information with third parties for marketing purposes.
Domain name system or DNS attacks have persisted as a popular method for carrying out DDoS attacks. Haixin Duan, professor at Tsinghua University's Institute for Network Sciences and Cyberspace, describes TsuKing as a new form of DNS attack that does not require IP address spoofing.
The European Central Bank beginning this month will conduct cyber stress tests on banks to determine their resilience against cyberattacks. The agency is requiring 109 banks in Europe to perform vulnerability assessments and incident response evaluations by mid-2024.
Brisbane-based retail group Eagers Automotive is investigating a cyberattack that disrupted parts of its regional operations and compromised the personal information of some of its customers. Eagers said Tuesday it doesn't know the full extent of the hack, but it has started notifying customers.
Hackers celebrated the year-end holidays with a malicious "Free Leaksmas" posting on the dark web, releasing 50 million stolen consumer records, including credit card information. Researchers said the leaked data can be used for identity theft and fraud.
Over the New Year's holiday weekend, Belarusian hacktivists shut down the country's leading state-owned media outlet, claiming they had wiped the main website servers and backups of BelTA. The group said its actions had been retaliation against President Alexander Lukashenko's propaganda campaign.
Forrester analyst Sandy Carielli highlights key API security aspects in Forrester's report titled The Eight Components of API Security," which covers governance, discovery, testing, authentication and protection from API breaches as many organizations are grappling with the maturity of these areas.
As we bid farewell to 2023, Philip Reitinger, president and CEO of the Global Cyber Alliance, reflected on the state of global cyber hygiene, shedding light on what's working, what needs improvement, and the transformative shifts necessary to achieve a cyber-secure future.
Joe Kim, president and CEO of Sumo Logic, delved into the company's strategic shifts and future priorities after its acquisition by Francisco Partners this year. The company is now focusing on areas such as cloud-native scalability, technological advancements and a customer-centric approach.
In conjunction with a new report from CyberEd.io, Information Security Media Group asked some of the industry's leading cybersecurity and privacy experts about 10 top trends to watch in 2024. Ransomware, emerging AI technology and nation-state campaigns are among the top threats.
The New York Times is suing OpenAI and its chief backer Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging that OpenAI used without permission "millions" of its copyrighted articles to train the large language models used by ChatGPT and by extension Bing Chat and Copilot.
Cybersecurity is a critical concern for organizations of all sizes these days, and the responsibility for promoting it often falls on the CISO. But there's often a major disconnect between the CISO and the rest of the C-suite. William Beer of Accenture discussed strategies for bridging the gap.
Quantum computers are in their infancy but rapidly advancing, so firms need to upgrade security protocols now to address threats that quantum technology could one day pose to current cryptographic methods, said Clement Jeanjean, business operations lead in the quantum security group at SandboxAQ.
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