More than five dozen British lawmakers across political parties and privacy organizations called for an "immediate stop" to real-time facial recognition in the United Kingdom. Live facial recognition faces a ban in Europe and its use by police is banned in a handful of U.S. jurisdictions.
How did Israeli intelligence fail to spot and stop the deadly assault on Saturday by Hamas militants? Experts suggest planners used offline tactics and extreme compartmentalization to prevent leaks and evade well-known Israeli cyberespionage and digital surveillance capabilities.
Israeli cybersecurity leaders reacted Saturday with shock, defiance and resolve to an unprecedented land, sea and air assault by Palestinian militants from Gaza. Much of the Israeli cybersecurity community's anger stems from the deliberate targeting of children and the elderly by Hamas militants.
Being an independent firm under TPG's ownership will allow Forcepoint G2CI to invest in defense-grade cyber tools such as insider threats and content disarm and reconstruction. Separating Forcepoint's government security practice will allow it to focus on secure remote access to classified networks.
In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors examine policies in the U.S. and Europe that could regulate AI, recent developments within the EU cybersecurity and privacy policy arena, and the disparities between the perspectives of business leaders and cybersecurity leaders on the security landscape.
America's largest hospital lobbying group says Congress should pressure health regulators into retracting a warning that online trackers embedded into patient portals could violate medical privacy law. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., is seeking feedback for potential improvements to HIPAA.
Hackers have weaponized a zero-day in a popular workspace collaboration tool to create administrator accounts and gain unrestricted access to their on-premises instances of the software, Atlassian's Confluence Data Center and Server products, which serves millions of daily active users.
This week, Bitsight found a lot of internet-exposed industrial control systems, Apple issued new patches, Sony confirmed a data breach, Google and Yahoo tackled spam, Qualcomm patched three zero-days, Cisco revealed zero-day exploits in VPN, and the FBI warned of twin attacks.
Trick question for CSOs: When does a security incident qualify as being a data breach? The answer is that it's "a very complicated question" best left to the legal team, said former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan, sharing lessons learned from the U.S. Department of Justice's case against him.
Eric Eddy, principal technical marketing engineer at Cisco, discusses critical aspects of user-centric security. From alleviating the security burden on users to the role of zero trust in granting access, Eric provides actionable insights for achieving a seamless and robust security posture.
A clutch of vulnerabilities in an open-source tool used by major corporations to scale up machine learning models could lead to remote takeover, says a cybersecurity firm in a warning downplayed by Meta, which co-manages the open-source project.
Atos snagged the longtime European CEO of Accenture Technology to lead its soon-to-be-independent $5.76 billion cybersecurity, big data and digital unit. Yves Bernaert, 55, will split Atos' infrastructure and data management and business and platform solutions unit from its high-growth Eviden unit.
More than four dozen cybersecurity mavens say a proposed European Union mandate for software publishers to inform the trading bloc's cybersecurity agency of zero-day exploits within 24 hours of their discovery risks harming cybersecurity efforts.
Okta bought a password manager founded by a former Google engineer and backed by Andreessen Horowitz to get a foothold in the consumer identity market. Okta was impressed by Uno's experience in building consumer-first, design-focused and easy-to-use password management and personal identity tools.
Hacktivists who hit healthcare or otherwise target civilians are violating international humanitarian law, warns the International Committee of the Red Cross. As many self-proclaimed hacktivists appear to be Russian government cutouts, will legal threats make them rethink their life choices?
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