An unsecured Amazon Web Services S3 bucket left 425 GB of financial data, including credit reports, bank statements and more, exposed to the internet, according to a VPN Mentor researcher.
The global outbreak of COVID-19 is intensifying the already heightened threat of attacks, including phishing scams, on healthcare organizations, says attorney Lee Kim, director of privacy and security of the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society.
The Trump administration on Tuesday announced immediate limited waivers of certain HIPAA privacy provisions to help improve patient care during the growing COVID-19 pandemic. For example, it's now OK for providers to offer telehealth services through certain applications that allow for video chats.
With U.S. stock markets suffering their worst day since 1987 on Monday, most technology firms took a hit as Wall Street continues to be rattled by the COVID-19 crisis. Experts predict this will drive fresh waves of consolidation and M&A in the cybersecurity market, as well as growth in hot areas.
The ACLU has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department Of Homeland Security and three of its agencies in an effort to learn more about how the department uses facial recognition technology at airports and the country's borders.
It's no exaggeration to say that, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we now have the largest-ever global remote workforce. And with it comes an expanded attack surface that requires extra attention. Phil Reitinger of the Global Cyber Alliance shares five tips for securing the remote workforce.
The COVID-19 pandemic present new challenges to healthcare IT and security teams, including the need to reassess and adjust business continuity plans, says Christopher Frenz, who leads information security at New York's Interfaith Medical Center. He's chair of an industry committee that developed guidance.
Nation-state hackers as well as cybercriminals are now attempting to use phishing emails with themes tied to the global COVID-19 pandemic to spread malware, according to recent security reports.
As the COVID-19 pandemic intensifies, public health efforts are being complicated by ransomware attacks continuing to hit healthcare facilities that are not only handling cases but also running frontline virus-testing labs.
Automated workflows can help pre-emptively report cybersecurity risks to the board and allow for better qualitative approaches to interpreting data, says Ben de Bont, CISO of ServiceNow.
To help deal with the coronavirus outbreak, healthcare providers are examining how to implement or expand the use of telehealth services to remotely evaluate and care for patients. But these providers need to carefully consider privacy and security issues as they work to quickly offer these services.
Microsoft has released an "out of band" security update to fix a flaw in SMBv3 that was accidentally disclosed publicly before a full fix had been prepared. Security experts warn that the flaw could be exploited to crash vulnerable systems and potentially execute arbitrary code.
2019 was the year when enterprises across all sectors woke up to the scale of their third-party risk challenges. How will they respond to those risks in 2020? Jaymin Desai of OneTrust shares insights.
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