Accenture acquired one of Spain's most prominent cybersecurity service providers to better support multinational companies with a presence in the country. The consulting giant said its buy of Madrid-based Innotec Security will add 500 cyber professionals to Accenture Security's 20,000-person staff.
This week, Canada banned WeChat and Kaspersky apps, REvil members faced trial in a Russian military court, the British Library experienced an IT outage, Iranian state-backed hackers targeted Middle East governments and European officials extended the ban on Meta's behavioral advertising practices.
Texas-based mental healthcare provider Deer Oaks Behavioral Health is notifying nearly 172,000 patients that their information was potentially compromised in a ransomware incident, even though the attack was apparently quickly detected and contained.
The fallout from the SEC's charges of fraud and internal control failures against SolarWinds and its CISO has implications for the industry. Cordery Compliance attorney Jonathan Armstrong advises security leaders to "take heed and remember that the actions of today can determine your fate tomorrow."
Splunk has executed its second round of layoffs since February, axing 7% of its workforce weeks after Cisco announced plans for a $28 billion acquisition. Splunk will reduce its 8,000-person staff by 7% or approximately 560 positions. Most of the jobs being cut are in the United States.
Once ransomware hackers get inside a healthcare sector organization's systems, 3 in 4 attackers will also maliciously encrypt data, says security firm Sophos. Attackers successfully encrypted data in 75% of ransomware attacks on healthcare sector entities, researchers report.
A scientist claims to have developed an inexpensive system for using quantum computing to crack RSA, which is the world's most commonly used public key algorithm. If true, this would be a breakthrough that comes years before experts predicted. Now, they're asking for proof.
A Georgia-based firm that provides administrative services for health plans is among the latest firms reporting a major health data hack involving their use of Progress Software's MOVEit file transfer software. NASCO joined a growing list of health sector vendors hit by MOVEit hacks.
Palo Alto Networks plans to purchase a data security posture management startup led by a Microsoft and Google veteran and backed by Samsung. The proposed buy of Tel Aviv, Israel-based Dig Security will give Palo Alto Networks customers visibility into and control of their multi-cloud data estate.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency launched a security tool intended to help organizations with limited resources better protect their Windows-based devices and sensitive data. Logging Made Easy is meant to serve as a turnkey log management tool.
Two cybersecurity vendors are laying off a sizable chunk of their staff, with Exabeam axing 20% of its workforce and F-Secure cutting up to 70 employees. Exabeam eliminated roughly 134 positions this week, while F-Secure wants to shrink its workforce by nearly 14%.
Social media single sign-on standard OAuth has an implementation weakness that hackers could exploit to obtain unauthorized access, say researchers. "We expect that 1,000s of other websites are vulnerable to the attack," wrote Salt Security, "putting billions of additional internet users at risk."
Unveiling a vision of factory workers using AI chatbots to control the assembly line, fix production issues and develop code, Rockwell Automation plans to buy an industrial cybersecurity vendor and team up with Microsoft's generative AI practice to speed automation design and development.
This week: espionage group exploits a zero-day in Roundcube Webmail, Cloudflare records a surge in HTTP DDoS attacks, ZScaler detects a spike in IoT hacks, the International Criminal Court says its cyber incident was espionage and the Kansas court system still offline.
Welcome to "Cyber Fail." In this ISMG program, our experts uncover fails so we can strengthen our defenses. In this episode, we take on deepfakes, hallucinating chatbots, the fate of humanity and why you should never put your trust in a ransomware gang.
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