A ransomware attack on the Irish healthcare system in 2021 has cost the government 80 million euros in damages and counting. The Irish Health Service continues to notify victims of the incident that their personal information was illegally accessed and copied.
The security industry has traditionally tried to protect sensitive data by putting control points on endpoints or networks, but Skyhigh Security has taken a different approach. The company applies consistent policies around how data is treated across its ZTNA, SWG and CASB offerings.
Ngrok has closed a $50 million Series A round to provide enterprise-grade authentication and user and session observability without adding complexity for developers or users. Ngrok will use the proceeds to support additional authentication protocols and build out integrations and connections.
The founder of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, has been arrested by police in the Bahamas, the day before he was due to remotely testify before Congress. Bahamian officials say he faces a "likely" extradition request from the U.S., which has filed charges against him.
Banks using behavioral-based controls are detecting malicious accounts in 92% of cases before traditional AML and transaction monitoring systems alert the bank.
Snyk hauled in nearly $200 million just weeks after laying off 198 employees but had to slash its valuation by $1.1 billion to seal the deal. The company intends to use the Series G proceeds to enhance and expand its developer security platform through both organic investments and acquisitions.
Ride-hailing app maker Uber says a data breach at a third party is responsible for the appearance on a hacking forum of internal data. The data is unrelated to the September incident Uber experienced after a hacker affiliated with Lapsus$ penetrated the company network, an Uber spokesperson says.
Updated guidance from the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Health and Human Services aims to help clarify for mobile health app developers creating apps that process health data the privacy and security regulations that apply to their products.
Months after a global law enforcement team took down the world's largest darknet marketplace, a dozen others have taken its place. The new platforms operate in the Russian language, bring in more volume than the very profitable Hydra, and run operations differently from their Western counterparts.
Chicago-based hospital chain CommonSpirit reported to federal regulators that its October ransomware incident affected the protected health information of nearly 624,000 individuals. Among the information compromised were names, addresses, phone numbers and birthdates.
Ashan Willy has made his first deal as Proofpoint's CEO, scooping up an identity startup established by Check Point's former cloud and document security leader. The purchase of Illusive will allow Proofpoint to add identity risk discovery and remediation and post-breach defense to its platform.
Attackers wielding Royal ransomware have been hitting crypto-locking healthcare targets, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services warns, saying that in each known case, attackers "claimed to have published 100% of the data that was allegedly extracted from the victim."
Australian telecommunications provider Telstra apologized for accidentally publishing names, numbers and addresses of over 130,000 customers whose details were supposed to be unlisted. The company apologized for the error and blamed a "misalignment of databases."
Hosted services company Rackspace is warning customers about the increasing risk of phishing attacks following a ransomware attack causing ongoing outages to its hosted Exchange environment. The Texas-based firm also is now facing a class action lawsuit.
Australian Home Affairs and Cyber Security Minister Clare O'Neil vowed during a speech to transform the country into the world's most cyber-secure, saying experts will start work on a strategy intended to outdo the rest of the world by 2030. The country has recently experienced a data breach wave.
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