Data Security

Google says it has created “an entirely new type of encryption” for Gmail.

Vasu Jakkal, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of security, emphasized that AI-driven cyber defense is essential as Microsoft Threat Intelligence processes 84 trillion signals daily, enabling proactive threat detection.

Cybernews reports that recent data breaches have impacted 65% of the largest hospitals and health systems across the U.S. just as the total number of compromised health records exceeded 276 million, or more than 80% of the country's population, last year, which is the highest on record.

U.S. Department of Justice bankruptcy regulators have been urged by Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson to ensure that any buyer of the embattled DNA testing services company 23andMe should comply with the firm's existing data privacy policies.

Tennessee-based Chord Specialty Dental Partners had data from more than 173,000 individuals confirmed to have been compromised following a data breach identified in September, according to SecurityWeek.

TechCrunch reports that APIsec, an API security testing company, had its customers' data and other sensitive information dating back to 2018 inadvertently exposed by a misconfigured internal database, which was immediately secured upon the identification of UpGuard researchers earlier last month.

U.S.-Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point has minimized an alleged breach by the threat actor "CoreInjection," who claimed exfiltrating the company's internal project documents, user credentials, internal network maps, source code and proprietary software binaries, and employee contact information from its systems, reports Hackread.