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GovInfoSecurity.com covers the latest news, laws, regulations and directives related to government information security, focusing on the White House's cybersecurity initiatives, the latest legislative efforts in Congress, as well as thought leadership from top government CISOs.
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8h ago
Meanwhile, Wait Continues for Change Healthcare's Breach Report in Massive Attack
U.S. hospital chain Ascension has filed a placeholder breach report to federal regulators saying its May 8 ransomware attack affected at least 500 individuals. Meanwhile, the waiting game continues for Change Healthcare's official data breach report and individual notifications ..read more
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8h ago
The Recovery Progress, Impact on Commercial and Public Sectors, and Lessons Learned
In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discussed the massive CrowdStrike IT outage that crashed 8.5 million Windows systems and severely affected the healthcare, finance and transportation sectors. Here's what you need to know one week later about the recovery, impact and lessons learned ..read more
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250,000 of the 8.5 Million Affected Windows Hosts Still Need to Be Recovered
CrowdStrike said nearly all of the Windows hosts disrupted by its faulty July 19 update are now fixed. The company said the flaw involved a relatively new threat detection feature that uses configuration data that "maps to specific behaviors for the sensor to observe, detect or prevent ..read more
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8h ago
White House Touts Agency Achievements for Development and Safe Use of Technology
Apple is the latest tech giant to sign onto a list of voluntary commitments for artificial intelligence development pushed by the Biden administration. The White House has a strategy of extracting promises of secure and trustworthy development from Silicon Valley ..read more
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2d ago
State-Sponsored Hacking Group Andariel Tied to Active and Sophisticated Campaigns
A North Korean hacking group notorious for carrying out large-scale cyberattacks against government institutions and critical infrastructure, and developing ransomware, is expanding operations to target the healthcare, energy and financial sectors, warn threat intelligence researchers at Mandiant ..read more
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2d ago
Open-Source Company Issues Patches After Being Alerted by Palo Alto
A widely used generative artificial intelligence framework is vulnerable to a prompt injunction flaw that could enable sensitive data to leak. Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks uncovered two arbitrary code flaws in open-source library LangChain ..read more
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2d ago
Tips on Managing Public Relations in the Face of a Cyber Incident
Cybersecurity incidents are not just technical problems. They are also major public relations challenges. Effective IT and cybersecurity leadership during a crisis can significantly affect your company's reputation, stakeholder trust and overall recovery - and have a big impact on your career ..read more
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2d ago
Bank Execs at Senate Hearing Defend Zelle Reimbursements, Payment Fraud Programs
During a hearing Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., revealed that Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo only reimbursed 38% of customers for unauthorized payments - leaving them on the hook for $100 million in fraud losses. The banks disputed the committee's findings ..read more
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2d ago
Static Scanning Limitations Usher Malware Onto Corporate Network
Phishing hackers have developed a new technique for smuggling malware past secure email gateway defenses, said researchers at Cofense who uncovered a recent info stealer campaign. "I honestly think that it was someone testing the water to see if it would work - and it did work," a researcher said ..read more