Leading this week's industry news roundup, HP launches a secure private cloud solution designed for government agencies, while IBM expands the services on its open cloud platform.
In the wake of the Heartbleed flaw, a researcher finds new weaknesses in OpenSSL that could be exploited to launch man-in-the-middle attacks, distributed-denial-of-service attacks and remote-code execution on millions of sites.
Although breach prevention may be on the minds of more CEOs and boards of directors in the wake of recent incidents, getting their buy-in for funding still requires educating them on the risks that could have an impact on the business.
Poor Internet hygiene, not increased cybercrime, is what's really to blame for the increased botnet traffic the online world is battling, say cybersecurity experts Tom Kellermann and Rod Rasmussen.
Although the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is reorganizing, it appears privacy and security issues will remain a top priority at the agency. Here are the latest details.
There's good news on the Zeus Gameover Trojan and Cryptolocker ransomware campaigns: The number of new infections has become "very low," if not fallen to zero. But related attacks could quickly resurge. Learn the reasons why.
Healthcare organizations should take several key steps to ensure the cybersecurity of medical devices, including "walling off" certain devices from the network, says Rick Comeau of the Center for Internet Security.
A George Mason University researcher says NIST's cybersecurity framework is likely to cause more problems than it solves. Instead, he encourages critical infrastructure operators to adopt dynamic cybersecurity provisions.
Healthcare organizations using medical devices that run on the Microsoft Windows XP platform, which is no longer supported, need to have short- and long-term strategies to address cybersecurity, says medical device security researcher Kevin Fu.
An ongoing APT campaign employs decoy documents to lure potential victims into installing malicious remote-control tools. Targets include at least one bank, the BBC and many U.S. and EU government agencies.
Security researchers say the international takedown of the Gameover Zeus botnet and servers for CryptoLocker ransomware will have a positive short-term impact, but they warn the threats could quickly re-emerge unless key steps are taken.
The total number of employees affected by a breach of financial information at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has more than doubled to 62,000 in a case that's resulted in federal income tax fraud and triggered lawsuits.
Local police are investigating a breach involving inappropriate access to about 600 patients' records by a former employee at ProMedica Bay Park Hospital in Oregon, Ohio. Find out what information was exposed.
Law enforcement agencies worldwide took part in a coordinated operation to disrupt the Gameover Zeus botnet and seize computer servers crucial to the CryptoLocker ransomware. A Russian citizen has been indicted in connection with the crackdown.
Making senior management aware of the risks involved in failing to invest in security technology is essential to getting buy-in, says Phil Curran, CISO at Cooper University Health Care.
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