The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued proposed "guard rails" to help ensure that the use of artificial intelligence for Medicare Advantage insurance plans does not result in inequitable access to healthcare-related services. The proposed rule will go into effect in 2026.
The European Commission on Thursday opened infringement procedures against 23 EU member states that missed a mid-October deadline for implementing the NIS2 Directive, as well 24 EU members that missed a Critical Entities Resilience Directive deadline.
President-elect Donald Trump's strong cryptocurrency support amid market volatility is raising concerns over potential conflicts of interest, with experts warning his agenda - including potential plans to appoint a White House crypto czar - could destabilize the economy and undermine public trust.
The Australian government's proposed cybersecurity legislation passed both houses of the Parliament on Monday, formalizing the government's strategy to boost ransomware payment reporting, mandate basic cybersecurity standards for connected devices and enhance critical infrastructure security.
The U.S. Department of Defense is seeking industry proposals for a new artificial intelligence contract vehicle to help revamp its multi-domain analytics platform, Advana, according to a newly released draft solicitation. The new contract vehicle could extend through July 2035.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights should restart and toughen the scope of its HIPAA audits. A watchdog agency says HHS needs to better assess whether regulated healthcare organizations are taking required actions to reduce their cybersecurity risk.
Newly empowered Republicans in U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's orbit appear slated to enact far-reaching changes to the federal cyber defense agency, with one senator pledging to act on his long-standing enmity to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
President elect Donald Trump said Thursday he will nominate prominent vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary to head up the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. His stances on health information privacy, security and healthcare sector cyber matters are not well known.
Donald Trump's return to the White House with a renewed focus on deregulation may shift the priorities of federal agencies in enforcing data privacy and cybersecurity policy, said Lisa Sotto, partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth and chairperson of the DHS Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee.
The United States could see an ever-increasing level of global cybersecurity threats as former President Donald Trump returns to office, experts told Information Security Media Group, with foreign adversaries poised to potentially exploit the politically charged transition period.
In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discussed how the recent election results may reshape U.S. cybersecurity policy and healthcare privacy under HIPAA and the groundbreaking role of artificial intelligence in Google’s recent discovery of a critical zero-day vulnerability.
Microsoft's latest Digital Defense Report exposed an increasingly complex cyber battlefield in which nation-state actors team up with cybercriminals to launch sophisticated attacks, while organizations continue to struggle to defend against these evolving threats.
One post-election question pertaining to Donald Trump's upcoming presidency is how his administration will choose to combat cybercrime, and to what extent the White House will continue to take a leadership role in combating ransomware and cybercrime - especially based in Russia.
Following a major defeat in the October general elections, the Liberal Democratic Party is struggling to muster enough votes in the Parliament to pass a cybersecurity bill to set improve its cyber defense program. The government planned to introduce the bill in late 2024.
Western governments should take a page from China's cybersecurity playbook and sponsor sector-specific capture-the-flag competitions, not just for talent development and recruitment but also to help forge strong "social bonds," says a new report from Washington think tank Atlantic Council.
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