Ascension: Health data of 5.6 million stolen in ransomware attack
Ascension, one of the largest private U.S. healthcare systems, is notifying nearly 5.6 million patients and employees that their personal…
Orgs Scramble to Fix Actively Exploited Bug in Apache Struts 2
A newly discovered vulnerability, CVE-2024-53677, in the aging Apache framework is going to cause major headaches for IT teams, since…
Orgs Scramble to Fix Actively Exploited Bug in Apache Struts 2
A newly discovered vulnerability, CVE-2024-53677, in the aging Apache framework is going to cause major headaches for IT teams, since…
Vendors Chase Potential of Non-Human Identity Management
Non-human identities authenticate machine-to-machine communication. The big challenge now is to secure their elements and processes — before attackers can…
Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm
Cybercriminals are selling hundreds of thousands of credential sets stolen with the help of a cracked version of Acunetix, a…
Is There a DDoS Attack Ceiling?
Today, it’s rare for a month to pass without reports of new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Lately, geopolitical instability and hacktivist groups…
Interpol: Can We Drop the Term ‘Pig Butchering’?
The agency asks the cybersecurity community to adopt "romance baiting" in place of dehumanizing language.
Breaking Up with Your Password: Why It’s Time to Move On
Data breaches impacted more than 1 billion users in the first half of 2024, up 409% from this time last year, emphasizing the…
Texas Tech University System data breach impacts 1.4 million patients
The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and its El Paso counterpart suffered a cyberattack that disrupted computer systems and…
Windows kernel bug now exploited in attacks to gain SYSTEM privileges
CISA has warned U.S. federal agencies to secure their systems against ongoing attacks targeting a high-severity Windows kernel vulnerability. [...]