Apple's latest desktop operating system, High Sierra, has a massive vulnerability that allows anyone to create, without a password, a "root" account that has access to all files on the computer. It's the third authentication-related fumble found in High Sierra since its general release in September.
Canadian citizen Karim Baratov has pleaded guilty to targeting more than 11,000 webmail accountholders to steal their passwords, including targeting 80 Gmail accounts at the request of an alleged Russian intelligence agent tied to a 2014 hack attack against Yahoo that exposed 500 million accounts.
From GDPR to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, vendor risk management is a key component of every new piece of cybersecurity guidance. Yet, security leaders still struggle to inventory and assess their strategic partners. Sam Kassoumeh of SecurityScorecard explores the challenges.
Looking for a way to benchmark your cybersecurity organization against those of your peers? Intel Health and Life Sciences and its partners offer a Healthcare Security Readiness program that provides a benchmarking opportunity, David Houlding explains.
As a security researcher at Cisco, Brad Antoniewicz has the opportunity to watch cybersecurity threats emerge and evolve. Among the latest: a shift in phishing campaigns to target cryptocurrencies. Antoniewicz explains the shift and how organizations can respond.
Two Indiana attorneys, frustrated by delays in obtaining patient records on behalf of clients, are seeking more than $1 billion in damages in a lawsuit alleging 60 hospitals in the state fraudulently received HITECH Act electronic health record incentive payments.
The U.S. government has charged three employees of Chinese cybersecurity firm Boysec with stealing valuable intellectual property from Siemens, Moody's Analytics and Trimble. Security researchers say Boysec has been operating since 2007 and is also known as APT 3 and Gothic Panda.
When Arbor Network's Paul Bowen looks at the IoT threat to healthcare, he's concerned about how medical devices are conceived, created and connected. And he says device manufacturers are dangerously behind the maturity curve when compared to threats actors.
It's more than a honeypot, and it's different from "hack back." The topic is deception technology, and Carolyn Crandall of solutions vendor Attivo discusses myths and realities of this emerging cybersecurity toolset.
The California attorney general's office has smacked Cottage Health System with a $2 million settlement in the wake of breaches in 2013 and 2015. What lessons can be learned from this significant enforcement action?
Reports that a plea deal is about to be reached for Karim Baratov - extradited from Canada to the United States on charges that he assisted Russian intelligence agents with the massive hack of Yahoo in 2014 - are premature, his attorney tells Information Security Media Group.
Every new cybersecurity regulation includes at least some emphasis on improving vendor risk management. But what happens when vendors balk at the extra degree of scrutiny required? Moffitt Cancer Center's Dave Summitt describes his risk-based approach to business associates.
As the GDPR's enforcement date nears, North American healthcare organizations are scrambling to ensure their data protection policies and practices are up to snuff. Mitch Parker of Indiana University Health System offers his prescription for GDPR compliance.
The steady stream of new reports about years-old breaches continues as Imgur, the popular photo-sharing service, belatedly warns that it suffered a breach in 2014 that compromised 1.7 million users' accounts.
Uber's tardy data breach notification - one year after the incident occurred - has trigged fresh questions about how quickly companies should come clean after they suffer a cybersecurity incident.
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