Bipartisan legislation proposing to help rural hospitals better address cybersecurity personnel shortages cleared a Senate committee Wednesday amid signs of a deepening ransomware crisis affecting hospitals serving areas with low population density.
European lawmakers on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of restrictions for the artificial intelligence industry, approving a regulatory package obliging generative AI model makers to mitigate societal risks and banning a slew of applications, such as biometric recognition in public places.
Each year, billions of dollars are transferred in and out of money mule accounts to support a variety of money laundering schemes. But banks are now using machine learning and AI more effectively to spot mule accounts. Two experts shared the latest approaches and tools for beefing up AML programs.
A French conglomerate will buy Australia's largest publicly traded cybersecurity company to expand its cyber service delivery capability in the high-growth Oceania market. The Tesserent deal will help Thales to accelerate its development road map and boost its footprint in Australia and New Zealand.
Swedish privacy regulators ordered Spotify to pay 5 million euros after finding the music streaming service not forthcoming enough with how it uses consumer data. Spotify in an emailed statement said the investigation revealed that "only minor areas of our process" were at odds with the GDPR.
A rural Illinois medical system will shut down on Friday partly due to fallout from a 2021 ransomware incident as a wave of extortionate malware exacts rising costs from the healthcare industry. "These problems have no end in sight," said Mike Hamilton of security firm Critical Insight.
Mihai Ionut Paunescu, who hosted "bulletproof" infrastructure for malware, received a prison sentence of 36 months. His sentencing concludes a 10-year effort by prosecutors against a trio of hackers who created and distributed the Gozi banking Trojan.
Hackers hit the e-commerce industry with 14 billion attacks in 15 months, pushing it to the top of the list of targets for web application and API exploits. A new Akamai report blames digitalization and the wide range of vulnerabilities hackers can exploit in web applications.
Cisco connected the world; who better to defend it? This is the mindset Carlos Diaz brings to the new Cisco XDR release, which he says is designed to make cybersecurity defenders' lives easier. The message that defenders should draw from this XDR solution, he says, is: "Cisco knows me."
Expel has axed 60 workers just eight months after hauling in $31 million to provide the managed detection and response vendor with a financial cushion. The company will reduce its 600-person staff by 10% - or 60 people - in response to "many shifts in the market," the co-founders wrote in a blog.
A company that makes patient debt collection software is the latest healthcare sector entity to report a hacking breach related to a flaw in Fortra's GoAnywhere secure file transfer software. To date, the GoAnywhere vulnerability has affected the health information of 4.4 million individuals.
Fortinet has patched a critical vulnerability affecting Fortigate Secure Sockets Layer network VPN devices that allow remote network access. French security firm Olympe uncovered the vulnerability and said the flaw can be exploited without credentials and can bypass multifactor authentication.
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