The Latest
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Officials see a real change in Microsoft’s security plans: financial accountability
CISA Director Jen Easterly pointed to Microsoft’s decision to link security to executive compensation as a meaningful signal of its priorities.
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White House wants to hold the software sector accountable for security
Federal officials are taking steps toward a long-stated goal of shifting the security burden from technology users to the companies that build it.
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Some Ascension hospitals diverting emergency care after cybersecurity incident
The health system’s electronic health records, MyChart patient portal and several systems for ordering tests and medications are unavailable, Ascension said.
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CISA explains why it doesn’t call out tech vendors by name
Federal officials rarely criticize tech companies when their mistakes result in attacks. The stinging conclusions CSRB levied at Microsoft are an exception, not the norm.
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68 tech, security vendors commit to secure-by-design practices
CISA said companies ranging from Microsoft to Palo Alto Networks signed the voluntary pledge in an effort to boost resiliency and increase transparency around CVEs and cyberattacks.
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Ascension hit by cybersecurity incident disrupting clinical operations
The major nonprofit health system detected “unusual activity” on some network systems Wednesday.
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The US really wants to improve critical infrastructure cyber resilience
A report from the Office of the National Cyber Director highlights persistent threats targeting healthcare and water, echoing warnings from cyber officials earlier this year.
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Generative AI is a looming cybersecurity threat
Researchers have not identified any AI-engineered cyberattack campaigns, yet, but they say it’s only a matter of time before an AI system is dominant enough in the market to draw attention.
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China-linked attackers are successfully targeting network security devices, worrying officials
Espionage groups linked to China are heavily exploiting zero days, focusing on devices that lack endpoint detection and response capabilities, one expert said.
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CISA, FBI urge software companies to eliminate directory traversal vulnerabilities
The software defects are linked to recent exploitation campaigns against critical infrastructure providers, including healthcare and schools.
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Change Healthcare cyberattack: 5 technical takeaways from UnitedHealth CEO’s testimony
Change Healthcare was running on legacy technology, which magnified the ransomware attack’s impact and hampered recovery efforts, Andrew Witty said.
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Tech skills gaps put pressure on existing IT staff
Technologists surveyed by Pluralsight said skills gaps are adding to their workloads, especially across cybersecurity, cloud and software development jobs.
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Microsoft restructures security governance, aligning deputy CISOs and engineering teams
The company will enhance management roles under the CISO and partially tie compensation to security performance.
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Amazon CEO touts AWS cloud security as AI risk concerns mount
Andy Jassy urged enterprises “not to overlook the security and operational performance” of cloud-based generative AI services. “It’s less sexy, but critically important.”
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Congress grills UnitedHealth CEO over Change cyberattack
Legislators slammed Andrew Witty over the company’s lack of cybersecurity practices and the impact of the breach, which may have compromised the data of a third of Americans.
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Clorox lowers sales outlook as recovery from 2023 cyberattack continues
The cleaning products maker is still working to fully restore distribution capabilities after the attack.
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Every Dropbox Sign user, account holders or not, stung in cyberattack
An attacker intruded the electronic signature platform’s production environment and accessed a trove of user data, including OAuth tokens.
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CISA warned 1,750 organizations of ransomware vulnerabilities last year. Only half took action.
More than half of CISA's ransomware vulnerability warning pilot alerts were sent to government facilities, healthcare and public health organizations.
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Hacktivists exploiting poor cyber hygiene at critical infrastructure providers
CISA, the FBI and international partner agencies want water, energy, agriculture and other sectors to immediately reset passwords and apply multifactor authentication.
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CVE exploitation nearly tripled in 2023, Verizon finds
Threat actors are going after critical security flaws in widely used applications, but human error is still at the root of business security woes.
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Deep Dive
At Microsoft, years of security debt come crashing down
Critics say negligence, misguided investments and hubris have left the enterprise giant on its back foot.
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Change Healthcare, compromised by stolen credentials, did not have MFA turned on
AlphV deployed ransomware nine days after it used access to a Citrix portal on Change’s network to move laterally within systems, CEO Andrew Witty said in testimony prepared for a House subcommittee hearing set for Wednesday.
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Cactus ransomware targets a handful of Qlik Sense CVEs
Security researchers warn the threat group is ramping up exploitation of previously disclosed flaws in the cloud platform.
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FTC broadens health breach notification rule
Regulators have been pursuing more enforcement actions against health applications sharing consumers’ data. Friday’s final rule should give those actions more heft.
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Kaiser exposed up to 13.4M plan member records to third parties
The largest data breach reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights so far this year comes as regulators reconsider healthcare’s use of tracking technologies.