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The current state of cybersecurity in the connected hospital

Abbott and The Chertoff Group released a white paper that shares key findings from a recent study of 300 physicians and 100 hospital administrators on cybersecurity challenges …

EU
GDPR’s impact: The first six months

GDPR is now six months old – it’s time to take an assessment of the regulation’s impact so far. At first blush it would appear very little has changed. There are no …

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Are we chasing the wrong zero days?

Zero days became part of mainstream security after the world found out that Stuxnet malware was used to inflict physical damage on an Iranian nuclear facility. After the …

Blocks
For recent big data software vulnerabilities, botnets and coin mining are just the beginning

The phrase “with great power comes great responsibility” was excellent advice when Ben Parker said it to his nephew Peter, aka Spiderman. It is even more …

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Internal negligence to blame for most data breaches involving personal health information

Your personal identity may fall at the mercy of attackers on many websites, but when it comes to health data breaches, hospitals, doctors offices and even insurance companies …

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Week in review: The lessons of Conficker, holiday season cybercrime, IoT vulnerability discovery

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Don’t accept risk with a pocket veto No security professional wants to accept risk. …

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Don’t accept risk with a pocket veto

We who live risk management know there are four responses when confronted with a credible risk to our organizations. We can treat the risk to reduce it. We can avoid the risk …

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Losses from online payment fraud to reach $48 billion annually

A new study from Juniper Research has found that annual online payment fraud losses from eCommerce, airline ticketing, money transfer and banking services, will reach $48 …

Adobe Flash
Adobe plugs critical RCE Flash Player flaw, update ASAP! Exploitation may be imminent

Adobe has released a Flash Player update that plugs a critical vulnerability (CVE-2018-15981) that could lead to remote code execution, and is urging users to implement it as …

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Conficker: A 10-year retrospective on a legendary worm

This November marked the 10-year anniversary of Conficker, a fast-spreading worm targeting Microsoft systems that went on to claim one of the highest levels of infection in …

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The holiday season and cybercrime: 8 ways to protect yourself

The holiday season has become an unbridled online spending extravaganza, and threat actors have taken notice. For shoppers, what starts out as an attempt to fulfill their …

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Should government officials complete basic cyber security training?

Venafi announced the results of a survey of 515 IT security professionals’ views on the cyber security literacy of government officials. The survey was conducted August 4-9, …

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