The Indian government directed social media companies to clamp down on deepfakes and misinformation shortly after a deepfake video of a leading actress sparked public criticism. Social media firms must act within 36 hours of a complaint and potentially face prosecution.
Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced Wednesday that the Justice Department will appoint a new board to advise top officials on the "ethical, lawful use of AI" following a White House executive order that sets new standards for the use of the emerging technology across federal agencies.
New York state regulators have smacked one of the nation's largest physician-owned radiology groups with a $450,000 settlement in the aftermath of a 2021 data exfiltration incident that compromised sensitive information of nearly 200,000 patients, including about 93,000 New Yorkers.
Microsoft spent the past year testing how generative AI can boost productivity, accelerate learning curves and drive collaboration for itself, its partners and its customers. Microsoft infuses generative AI into every product it builds and now uses generative AI to build generative AI capabilities.
Heads of major European tech companies are calling on trading bloc lawmakers to revise a proposed cybersecurity law, which they argue will create bottlenecks that disrupt the supply chain. "We risk creating a COVID-style blockage in European supply chains," the company heads say.
A major healthcare provider in Chicago that targets underserved populations is notifying 1.2 million patients that their information was compromised in a data theft incident at a medical transcription vendor. The county said it is among "many" entities affected.
Heavy reliance on legacy systems by the manufacturing organizations have led to cyberattacks becoming more frequent, complex and nuanced over the past two years. Rockwell Automation has sought to build cyber resilience and mitigate risk in industrial operations.
Ransomware hackers have seized on an exploit of a recently disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence instances days after the company urged its customers to patch immediately. Atlassian on Monday elevated the bug's criticality to 10, the maximum possible on the CVSS scale.
Declining consumer spending and a looming cost-of-living crisis in Australia have forced a majority of small businesses to cut cybersecurity spending and devote available funds to revenue generation efforts such as customer acquisition, client relationships and growth.
U.S. federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment against three foreign nationals for allegedly participating in a $48 million fraud scheme. The alleged reshipping scheme operated between 2013 and 2018 while the three defendants lived in Russia.
Rockwell's automation efforts have moved away from a purely programmed approach to one that combines programming and self-learning based on specified parameters. Rockwell trained autonomous vehicles using real-time learning and millions of images that capture optimal behavior by human drivers.
The American Hospital Association, along with three other organizations, has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to have the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services withdraw guidance issued last year warning that the use of online trackers by hospitals potentially violates HIPAA.
Rockwell Automation's acquisition of industrial cybersecurity vendor Verve will help businesses better handle one of the biggest challenges with critical infrastructure: asset identification. Industrial organizations need to manage plants located all over the world, and some of them are very old.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said it was setting up a variety of real-time initiatives to provide technical support and cybersecurity assistance for election offices nationwide, including an Election Day operations center and a virtual cyber situational awareness room.
Israel is known for its cyber resilience, but small and medium businesses in the country need to reduce external communication during wartime to reduce their attack surface, said May Brooks-Kempler, director of Cyber Range Solutions and founder and former president of ISC2 Israel Chapter.
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