Most organizations have been prioritizing automation, silicon-level security, cloud migration, and education and training in security innovation, with the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on work processes being the primary driver for security strategy changes, VentureBeat reports.
Nine security flaws impacting QNAP NAS devices, one of which is critical and could be abused to facilitate system takeovers, have been patched, according to The Hacker News.
The U.S. Treasury Department has introduced sanctions on cryptocurrency mixer Blender.io after helping support North Korea's "malicious cyber activities and money-laundering of stolen virtual currency," with the sanctions being the first among virtual currency mixers, The Verge reports.
April 2022 saw a record number of vulnerabilities, of which HC3 has assessed those with the potential to disrupt healthcare services to support patch prioritization in the sector.
A newly proposed bill targeting FDA user-fee program includes a number of medical device security requirements for manufacturers, including monitoring and identifying post-market cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
Despite fewer reported ransomware-related outages so far this year, HC3 data shows global healthcare targeting and the sale of compromised healthcare networks remains high.
GitHub has announced that dozens of organizations' private repositories had been compromised using stolen OAuth tokens last month as a part of a highly targeted operation, SecurityWeek reports.
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