With both excitement and fear swirling around the opportunities and risks offered by emerging AI, seven technology companies - including Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Meta - have promised the White House they would ensure the development of AI products that are safe, secure and trustworthy.
A Florida hospital is notifying 1.2 million patients that their information was stolen by hackers in a cybersecurity incident that spanned for nearly three weeks in May as attackers tried to encrypt the entity's systems with ransomware. The hospital repelled the attack but couldn't stop the breach.
The count of organizations affected by the Clop ransomware group's attack on MOVEit file-transfer software users continues to grow, now numbering over 400 organizations that were directly or indirectly impacted. More than 20 million individuals' personal details were stolen in the attacks.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Health and Human Services are jointly warning dozens of hospitals and telehealth providers of potential patient data privacy and cybersecurity violations involving the use of online tracking technologies.
Singapore's Personal Data Protection Commission has released proposed guidelines for the use and processing of personal data for the development of and research into AI systems. The privacy agency said that in some cases organizations may not require prior consent.
The U.S. government has added two more commercial spyware vendors - Cytrox and Intellexa - to its list of organizations that face restrictions if they attempt to procure American goods or services, owing to the firms' "threatening the privacy and security of individuals and organizations worldwide."
Many critical infrastructure sector organizations, especially smaller entities, will likely struggle to comply with an upcoming requirement to report cyber incidents to federal regulators within 72 hours - due to an assortment of reasons, said Stanley Mierzwa of Kean University.
It's becoming more critical than ever for hospitals to have vigorous programs that continuously evaluate and address the security risks posed by third-party vendors, said John Riggi, national adviser for cybersecurity and risk at the American Hospital Association.
Federal regulators and medical device maker Becton, Dickinson and Co. are warning about eight vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to compromise BD's medication infusion product suite, potentially putting data and device integrity at risk if exploited.
Countries in the Asia-Pacific region so far have not followed the West's lead in banning TikTok from government agency devices, except for special circumstances. But individual nations are pursuing a variety of strategies based on their specific perceptions of the threats they face.
We live in a surveillance society, but even though citizens are concerned about the lack of privacy, they don't know what to do about it, said David Sinclair, founder of 4Freedom Mobile, a mobile service provider that helps subscribers secure their phones and stop tracking, hacking and data theft.
Life sciences firms, including pharmaceutical companies, are facing growing challenges in securing complex sets of sensitive data, including genomic information, said H-ISAC's Phil Englert, one of many high-profile speakers who will discuss industry trends at ISMG's upcoming Healthcare Summit 2023.
Plaintiffs filed the first of what will likely be many more proposed class action lawsuits against HCA Healthcare just two days after the hospital chain publicly disclosed a hacking incident involving the posting of information for potentially 11 million patients on a dark web forum.
TikTok executives were unable to answer Liberal senator and chair of the committee James Paterson when he questioned them on how many times Australian user data had been accessed by TikTok staff in China, but the executives admitted it had happened.
Configuration management - especially vulnerability patching - is a significant challenge for many healthcare entities, including some Veterans Affairs medical facilities. A recent watchdog agency security inspection found configuration to be a top weakness at a VA healthcare system in Arizona.
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