Security Strategy, Plan, Budget

New York City Education Department officials disclosed that nearly 820,000 current and former city public school students had their personal information compromised following a cyberattack against Illuminate

Government Technology reports that changes in the cybersecurity landscape during the past two years have prompted state chief information security officers to emphasize zero trust approaches and privacy efforts.

The Biden administration’s budget proposal unveiled Monday calls for $10.9 billion in spending on cybersecurity priorities, an 11% increase that would include raises to cyber budgets across the federal civilian government.

A ransomware group is suspected to be behind the network disruption affecting the pharmacy services of OKCIC, which is part of the government-run Indian Health Service.

Using voice-based phishing, or “vishing,” attackers impersonated Morgan Stanley during phone calls, where they encouraged customers to reveal sensitive personal and financial information including banking or login credentials.

This week’s healthcare data breach includes multiple ransomware-related data access incidents and led by a Horizon Actuarial data theft and extortion incident that involved MLB benefit plan member data.

Rachel Tobac is a hacker and the CEO of SocialProof Security, but her behavioral science and neuropsychology background is nontraditional for the information security field. So how does she use that background to hack people?

Mandiant and Google’s Threat Analysis Group this week issued separate blog posts on North Korea’s cyber capabilities in support of its political, financial and national security goals.