Federal regulators and medical device maker Medtronic have issued new warnings about cybersecurity vulnerabilities in certain cardiac devices from the manufacturer that could potentially allow attackers to manipulate the products' functionality, posing safety risks to patients.
An incident involving a third-party vendor migrating a server containing archived email of a medical device provider has resulted in a reported health data breach impacting more than 277,000 individuals. What went wrong?
Facebook has corrected an internal security issue that allowed the company to store millions of user passwords in plaintext that were then available to employees through an internal search tool.
Attackers have hit North Carolina's Orange County with ransomware for the third time in six years. Government officials say IT teams have been working overtime to restore systems, and that no data has been lost.
Script-based payment card malware continues its successful run, impacting a range of e-commerce sites, security researchers warn. With fraudsters continuing to refine their tactics, countering card-sniffing scripts continues to be difficult.
At ISMG's Fraud Summit in New York, former Black Hat hacker and hacktivist Hector Monsegur explains why security executives need to listen to people like him and why attackers simply won't go away.
Aluminum giant Norsk Hydro has been hit by LockerGoga ransomware, which was apparently distributed to endpoints by hackers using the company's own Active Directory services against it. To help safeguard others, security experts have called on Hydro to release precise details of how it was hit.
In today's hyper-connected enterprise, organizations are at risk of two different types of attack. Larry Link, CEO of Cequence Security, explains how to defend at a platform level - without adding friction.
An unprotected database belonging to Chinese e-commerce site Gearbest exposed 1.5 million customer records, including payment information, email addresses and other personal data for customers worldwide, white hat hackers discovered.
Mirai, the powerful malware that unleashed unprecedented distributed denial-of-service attacks in 2016, has never gone away. And now a new version has been equipped with fresh exploits that suggest its operators want to harness the network bandwidth offered by big businesses.
Destructive malware attacks, once rare, have been surging as attackers seek to cover their tracks and complicate life for incident responders, says Rick McElroy, head of security strategy at Carbon Black.
It's not enough to detect an attack. To be truly effective, defenders need to capture digital fingerprints and movement through the network. Lastline CEO John DiLullo discusses this level of defense.
Symantec and scores of partners have launched a new integrated cyber defense initiative aimed at promoting industry collaboration and delivering new business value, Art Gilliland explains.
Getting a telemetry stream back from applications can help organizations to "adjust much more quickly to see how practical attacks are happening on the endpoint and then go to mitigate," says Aaron Lint of Arxan.
In light of concerns raised about the security of electronic voting machines in India, Dr. Alok Shukla, former deputy election commissioner, says it's nearly impossible for a hacker to tamper with the chips in an EMV in an attempt to alter the vote tally.
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