This year, the annual Black Hat Europe conference decamps from Amsterdam to London. What's in store? Everything from mobile ransomware and quantum-resistant crypto to "ego markets" and how to turn Belkin IoT devices into launch pads for DDoS attacks.
For healthcare information security professionals, the time has come to adopt a "wartime mindset" to ensure patient information is safeguarded from cyber threats. That's why ISMG has recruited a diverse array of experts to provide timely advice at our Healthcare Security Summit in New York Nov 1-2.
Federal regulators are reminding for-profit companies that if they collect and share consumers' health information, they not only need to comply with HIPAA security and privacy regulations, but also the Federal Trade Commission Act. Is their new guidance too narrow?
Russian hackers may think twice before traveling outside the country for a vacation in light of the arrest of alleged 2012 LinkedIn hacker "Yevgeniy N." by Czech police at a restaurant in Prague earlier this month.
WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange's interference in the U.S. elections has earned the Ecuadorian embassy in London's houseguest a slap on the wrist as his internet connection gets taken away. In the interim, maybe he can take up knitting?
A search warrant executed earlier this year gave authorities the power to force occupants of a Los Angeles-area house to unlock devices with their fingerprints, casting doubt on biometric defenses.
Under a hefty new Medicare payment reform final rule, healthcare providers must attest that they will not inappropriately block secure patient information exchange. But how will the provisions work?
A new audit that uncovered numerous problems with the U.S. Secret Service's IT management is "alarming," says House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz, a victim of a Secret Service insider breach.
With comprehensive network modeling extending into virtual networks, network security engineers can gain the needed visibility to unify security and compliance processes across their hybrid hardware and virtual environments.
Two Republican senators are demanding answers from the Federal Trade Commission about the "due process afforded" LabMD in the agency's data security enforcement case against the cancer testing laboratory. Meanwhile, LabMD has asked a federal court to delay the FTC's enforcement order while the lab appeals.
Verizon is reportedly awaiting the full results of a digital forensic investigation into the record-setting Yahoo data breach to ascertain whether it will revise its $4.8 billion bid to buy the search firm. Did the breach have a "material impact" on Yahoo's business? That's the question.
If you look beyond the political bickering and study the cybersecurity platforms that presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have posted on their campaign websites, you'll see that their approaches are similar in some respects.
New long-awaited federal guidance clarifies that cloud services providers that handle protected health information are nearly always considered business associates under HIPAA and, as a result, must meet the regulation's security requirements.
Hacker attacks continue to account for the vast majority of health data breach victims this year, according to the latest federal tally. Some security experts expect that trend will persist as long as many organizations focus narrowly on HIPAA compliance rather than larger cybersecurity issues.
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