Federal regulators and medical device maker Becton, Dickinson and Co. are warning about eight vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to compromise BD's medication infusion product suite, potentially putting data and device integrity at risk if exploited.
It’s hard for SaaS startups to sit at the same table with large enterprises. They need governance and risk management programs to build trust. So how can startups compete when they have no background? Privacy and security play a key role in building trust, said Privacy Business Group's Sawan Joshi.
Life sciences firms, including pharmaceutical companies, are facing growing challenges in securing complex sets of sensitive data, including genomic information, said H-ISAC's Phil Englert, one of many high-profile speakers who will discuss industry trends at ISMG's upcoming Healthcare Summit 2023.
Based on the 1,862 U.S. data breach notifications issued in the first half of this year, 2023 looks set to break multiple records, especially as more breaches come to light due to the Clop ransomware group exploiting a zero-day flaw in widely used MOVEit file transfer software.
Security appliance manufacturers SonicWall and Fortinet fixed multiple critically rated vulnerabilities in their network security products this week. The fixes include authentication bypass flaws that could result in exposure of sensitive information. Regulators urge users to patch soon.
Supply chain attacks, such as the MOVEit data breach that has affected more than 150 organizations, are "the nature of the landscape now," said security leader Ian Hill of Upp Corp. The answer to this scourge may be using generative AI to qualify partners and to analyze and score supply chain risk.
Russia is mulling a ban on iPhone use by government employees after a suspected American intelligence campaign exploited vulnerabilities in the device to spy on Russian staff. The ban is the latest in a slew of similar measures taken by Moscow against Western tech devices.
Safe Security purchased the creators of the industry's only open standard for cyber risk quantification to improve the visibility, management and communication of risk. Buying RiskLens will help CISOs answer questions about risk from board members or regulators without talking about products.
The growing list of MOVEit cyberattack victims has grown. Sixty-two clients of Big Four accounting firm Ernst & Young now appear on the Clop ransomware group's data leak site. A spokesperson for Ernst & Young confirmed that a "limited" attack on the company's systems had occurred.
Attackers are targeting the weakest link in the supply chain. Because every vendor poses a risk, you need to classify them by risk and track all the data they manage, said Matan Or-El, co-founder and CEO of Panorays, who advised taking a holistic view of your third-party risk program.
North American cybersecurity agencies are warning about a new variant of the Truebot Trojan that collects and exfiltrates information from victims. The new variant attacks a known critical-severity vulnerability - a remote code execution vulnerability in the Netwrix Auditor.
For the third time since the discovery of the MOVEit Transfer application zero-day vulnerability, Progress Software has revealed a new critical SQL injection vulnerability that allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary code.
This week, Charming Kitten targeted nuclear experts; over 130,000 solar energy monitoring systems are exposed; organizations confirmed a breach due to the MOVEit zero-day; Russian hackers took over a Ukrainian government agency's Facebook page; and a WordPress plug-in gave admin privileges to users.
A mature cybersecurity program is not necessarily an effective one. And while many companies conflate maturity with efficacy, the CISO knows that when it comes to information security, there is a significant difference between the two.
Most of the time, maturity means there are systematic processes in place that...
Cyber insurance companies gather a lot of information on the cost of breaches, but security organizations need to know the bigger picture. Jack Jones, chairman of the FAIR Institute, discussed identifying risk and evaluating overall costs with the FAIR model.
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