The White House convened state environmental, health and homeland security agencies Thursday as experts told ISMG water utilities across the country - particularly those in small, under-resourced communities - lack the funding and technical skills to implement federal cybersecurity recommendations.
The current use of artificial intelligence in the U.K. defense sector is not about creating killer robots. It is focused on optimizing resources and increasing the efficiency of military operations, experts speaking at the Alan Turing Institute's AI UK conference told attendees.
The House voted Wednesday to pass the Protecting Americans' Data from Foreign Adversaries Act, a bill that would provide the FCC with enhanced authorities to seek up to $50,000 in civil penalties against data brokers that sell Americans' sensitive information to countries such as Russia and China.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned the heads of Russian-based companies for spearheading disinformation campaigns that impersonated legitimate media outlets and government organizations across the globe. The firms coordinated an information manipulation campaign targeting Latin America.
Federal authorities are warning healthcare and public health sector entities of email bomb attacks, a type of denial-of-service attack that can overwhelm email systems and networks and distract victims from other nefarious activities. The incidents can also disrupt clinical and business workflow.
U.S. and allied cybersecurity agencies again warned the private sector to guard against Chinese state hackers who eschew malware to maintain access in favor of exploiting built-in system functions. Key preventative measures include maintaining a central logging database.
Major technology vendors keep being hacked by the nation-state hacking group Midnight Blizzard. Essential defenses to combat such attacks begin with implementing log monitoring across multiple platforms to find red flags, said John Fokker, head of threat intelligence at Trellix.
The pace of cybersecurity improvements has stagnated at many Britain organizations over the past year, driven in part by budget and staffing challenges, according to a new U.K. government report designed to assess domestic business resilience and the country's collective cybersecurity posture.
Fraudsters increasingly focus on synthetic entity fraud because forming a corporation requires few verification checks. This lack of rigorous verification by business registrars has led to an explosion in fake companies, said Andrew La Marca at Dun & Bradstreet.
Cybereason is carrying out its third round of layoffs in 21 months, and dozens of senior employees are expected to be let go. Among the exiting employees is Zohar Alon, the longtime Dome9 Security leader who joined Cybereason just 11 months ago as president of product and research and development.
Cybersecurity startups are wary of the public markets following a hard economic reset that made profitability more important than growth and performance more important than potential. Due to this dramatic shift, lots of cybersecurity startups want to file for an IPO, but nobody wants to go first.
The conventional trajectory for tech graduates is diversifying. Industries previously considered peripheral to technology are now actively recruiting tech talent. Employers who bypass the fresh wave of graduates are sidelining strategic advantages that could propel their organizations forward.
As quantum computing looms, experts emphasize the urgency of embracing quantum-safe strategies. They highlight the need for proactive measures to protect digital assets from future breaches, deliver long-term data security and ensure the integrity of encryption.
The White House announced six new countries were joining a coalition of international governments signing onto a joint statement on efforts to counter the proliferation and misuse of commercial spyware amid growing threats to government officials in the U.S. and abroad.
In the post-ChatGPT era, nearly every technology company offers some version of artificial intelligence service. But in some companies, the only AI service available is lip service, according to recent Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuits.
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