In addition to testing for accuracy and equity, the GSA study will also look at how different vendor products perform and match up to NIST standards when it comes to the non-biometric aspects of identity assurance.
Former Democratic National Committee Chief Security Officer Bob Lord has been enlisted by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency as its new senior technical advisor, CyberScoop reports.
More than 500,000 individuals had their data compromised following a cyberattack at Adaptive Health Integrations, a healthcare billing services firm in North Dakota, KVRR reports.
Emotet malware operators have restarted their newly-launched phishing campaign after fixing a vulnerability that prevented infections when malicious email attachments were opened, BleepingComputer reports.
Proofpoint researchers say the Emotet botnet's use of low volume attacks via Microsoft OneDrive URLs may be the first round of larger campaigns to come.
One of the primary tensions within DoD’s efforts to raise the cybersecurity bar for its defense contractors is doing it in way that doesn’t further erode the military’s base of small business innovators. And yet, the current bottom up approach by most hackers makes small businesses a primary threat to federal security efforts.
A follow-up notice from Smile Brands about its 2021 ransomware attack and that initially reported 199,683 patients being affected leads this week’s healthcare data breach roundup.
