Breaking Silos: A cybersecurity must, says AuditBoard CTO

LAS VEGAS — For all the talk of the benefits of Big Data, many companies struggle to see the full picture— thanks to data silos that keep risk landmines hidden and cyber threats undetected. Happy Wang, CTO of AuditBoard, believes the solution lies in breaking down barriers and unifying data, turning fragmented risk management into […]

AWS breaks up massive Russian phishing operation

Online retail giant and cloud-service provider Amazon broke up a phishing operation that impersonated thousands of Amazon Web Service (AWS) domains. The AWS security team, along with the Ukrainian CERT-UA blamed the Russian-backed APT 29 group for an attack which used spoofed AWS domains in an attempt to harvest login credentials from Ukrainian-speaking targets. Since […]

Apple publishes its 1st-ever Virtual Research Environment for Private Cloud Compute

Apple has publicly released a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for its Private Cloud Computer (PCC), platform marking an unprecedented opportunity for researchers to analyze an Apple program. The PCC is designed to provide end-to-end security and privacy for users of Apple Intelligence, Apple’s proprietary AI system first announced in June 2024. User requests that cannot […]

Change Healthcare breach affected 100 million Americans

UnitedHealth on Oct. 22 confirmed to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that 100 million Americans were affected by the Change Healthcare breach in February, making it the largest healthcare breach on record. In terms of actual records lost, the Change Healthcare breach is smaller when compared with the 2013 Yahoo breach, in […]

Navigate 2024: Identity security’s evolving role in digital transformation

With industries deep into their digital transformation journeys, identity security is undergoing its own evolution — making it a fitting theme for this year’s Navigate user conference. The role of professionals managing human and non-human identities within complex IT environments continues to expand in both scope and strategic importance. Over 3.5 days, SailPoint equipped cybersecurity […]

PPF and e& close €2.15 billion deal 

News   The “extremely complex” deal has been more than a year in the making, say the companies  Czech telco group PPF has completed the sale of a 50% plus one share stake in its telecom assets in Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia, and Slovakia to Emirati-based telco e&. In doing so, the companies have formed a new […]

Landmark breach compromises over 800K

Major U.S. insurance administrative services firm Landmark — which counts American Benefit LifeInsurance Company, Liberty Bankers Insurance Group, and Capitol Life Insurance Company as its customers — had sensitive data from 806,519 individuals compromised following a cyberattack in May, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. Included in the information exfiltrated […]