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HCA Healthcare is one of the largest health systems in the United States today. The company has millions of patients and manages data for countless hospitals, private practices, specialty offices, and more. With such a substantial volume of healthcare data contained in one location, the information is vulnerable to attack. That's exactly what happened to HCA Healthcare. The company suffered a data attack that left it with substantial losses.

Cybercriminals are exploiting the introduction of “.ZIP” as a new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) to launch phishing attacks, according to researchers at Fortinet. “Cybercriminals are always on the lookout for new opportunities and techniques to exploit, and the recent availability of '.ZIP' domains for public purchase has unfortunately created such an opportunity,” the researchers write.

API security is a pressing concern for industries undergoing digital transformation, and none more so than financial services and insurance.

AI has become a hot topic thanks to the recent headlines around the large language model (LLM) AI with a simple interface — ChatGPT. Since then, the AI field has been vibrant, with several major actors racing to provide ever-bigger, better, and more versatile models. Players like Microsoft, NVidia, Google, Meta, and open source projects have all published a list of new models. In fact, a leaked Google document makes it seem that these models will be ubiquitous and available to everyone soon.

An insecure direct object reference (IDOR) is a security vulnerability that occurs when a system’s implementation allows attackers to directly access and manipulate sensitive objects or resources without authorization checks. For example, an IDOR can arise when an application provides direct access to objects based on user-supplied input, allowing an attacker to bypass authorization.

Today, Bitsight and Diligent launched an extension of our partnership focused on correlated, independent, and comparable cyber ratings from Bitsight within Diligent’s Board Reporting for IT Risk. Streamlined data collection and standardized dashboards enable CISOs to deliver clear and consistent insights to the board leveraging Bitsight and Diligent solutions.

Cybersecurity leaders are always working to make smarter investments to improve their programs. Not only do they look to reduce risk from the expanding attack surface and manage supply chain risk, they’re also juggling external pressures from regulators, insurers, and shareholders. As leaders look to technology solutions to help, many look at data analytics to reduce their organization’s risk, manage exposure, and improve overall program performance.

You can know if your phone is hacked if you experience warning signs such as data usage being higher than normal, new apps you didn’t download, unusual or inappropriate pop-ups and more. Continue reading to learn about the warning signs that indicate your phone has been or is being hacked, and what you can do if you discover your phone has been hacked.

SOAR is dead. At first glance, that might be a bold statement, but the writing’s on the wall. While SOAR may have been a thing in the past, it’s not built for hybrid cloud adoption at enterprise scale. Cue, Torq Hyperautomation. Here are 5 reasons why SOAR is dead.

We often think of advanced persistent threats or APTs as threats primarily targeting governments for cyber espionage, but they could have just as much impact on the private sector. Oftentimes, both the techniques and the tooling used overlap between APTs and financially-motivated cybercriminals, and some APT groups themselves have taken to moonlighting as cybercriminals for profit.