The explosion in applications using genomic data - from drug and vaccine development and consumer ancestry testing to law enforcement work - is heightening the need to carefully address critical privacy and security concerns around this sensitive data, government authorities say in a new report.
The DFIR landscape is constantly evolving, driven by technological advancements and new cyberthreats. "Tsurugi," developed by Giovanni Rattaro, senior cybersecurity expert, and Marco Giorgi, senior DFIR analyst, is an open-source Linux distribution project designed for blue teams.
Cisco announced plans to acquire another cloud security startup as part of a series of recent acquisitions and investments in the company’s multi-cloud networking capabilities and security offerings, including the major $28 billion acquisition of Splunk.
This week, MongoDB blamed a phishing email for causing unauthorized access to its corporate environment, hackers interrupted VF Corp. holiday shipping, Britain electrical grid operator National Grid dropped a Chinese supplier, German authorities shut down an online criminal bazaar, and more.
Air Force Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh has been confirmed as the next head of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command after Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., ended a 10-month protest over a Pentagon policy allowing service members to seek travel reimbursement and paid time off when in need of an abortion.
This week, Ledger looked to reimburse hack victims, NFT Trader suffered a $3 million theft, the U.S. DOJ announced the first criminal case involving a DeFi smart contract, a court approved Binance's settlement with the U.S. CFTC and a Nigerian court sentenced a pig -butchering scammer.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency announced plans to launch a two-year effort beginning in 2024 to modernize its legacy Automated Indicator Sharing program as part of an effort to enhance collaboration with the private sector and provide more actionable data to its partners.
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology is soliciting public guidance on implementation of an October White House executive order seeking safeguards for artificial intelligence. The order directed the agency to establish guidelines for developers of AI to conduct red-teaming tests.
The Federal Trade Commission has banned Rite Aid from using AI-based facial recognition technology for security surveillance for five years after the retail drug store chain failed to implement safeguards such as mitigating risks for inaccurate outputs based on race and gender.
The U.K.'s highest court on Wednesday affirmed that an artificial intelligence system cannot be granted ownership of patents. AI "is not a person, let alone a natural person and it did not devise any relevant invention," wrote Justice David Kitchin.
Automating decision-making in the security operations center strengthens an organization's ability to detect, respond to and mitigate security threats effectively. But the focus has shifted from micro-automation to a unified platform, according to Michael Lyborg, CISO of Swimlane.
Comcast says attackers stole personal information pertaining to 35.9 million customers of its Xfinity-branded TV, internet and home telephone services in an October attack that targeted a vulnerability - dubbed Citrix Bleed - present in NetScaler and Citrix networking equipment.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency maintains an exhaustive list that the U.S. cyber agency describes as "the authoritative source of vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the wild," but a new report says it has failed to identify nearly 100 high-risk vulnerabilities in 2023.
The BlackCat ransomware-as-a-service operation's putative "unseizing" of its leak site from the FBI is a stunt made possible by way the dark web handles address resolution, security researchers said Tuesday. The stunt was a "tactical error" that could alienate affiliates.
OpenAI on Monday released a framework it says will help assess and protect against the "catastrophic risks" posed by the "increasingly powerful" AI models it develops. "We believe the scientific study of catastrophic risks from AI has fallen far short of where we need to be," the company said.
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