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Trump's appearance at HIMSS is "Unprecedented" - in that it's the first time a sitting president addressed the health IT conference, the organization notes. "Since our inception, HIMSS has been a nonpartisan organization whose mission is improving global health through information and technology, while providing insights and resources to our membership," HIMSS said in a statement Monday.
Emerging technologies being adopted by cities - like facial recognition, smart-city technologies like smart lighting, and 5G-driven IoT - are opening up municipalities to even more security and privacy threats. Tara Seals: So I wanted to talk to you a little bit about smart cities and municipalities in general and some of the security threats that they're facing.
Marcus Fowler of Darktrace on the Threat Landscape and the Security Roles for AI and MLMarcus Fowler of Darktrace discusses the 2020 U.S. presidential election cyberthreat landscape and the roles...
It looks like Switchzilla is moving swiftly to clear up the Krook bug discovered by ESET. Just hours after the researchers delivered their findings in a report, Cisco gave its own advisory on the Wi-Fi data snooping flaw. Missing C++ update opens security hole in Ubuntu 16.04.
A large number of French critical infrastructure firms were hacked as part of an extended malware campaign that appears to have been orchestrated by at least one attacker based in Morocco, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. In 2018, security intelligence firm HYAS discovered a malware network communicating with systems inside of a French national power company.
The TrickBot banking trojan has gotten trickier, with the addition of a Windows 10 ActiveX control to execute malicious macros in boobytrapped documents. This creates and executes the OSTAP JavaScript downloader, which acts as a dropper for the TrickBot payload, without user interaction after they click the "Enable macros" button.
Morphisec combines the anti-virus protection in the new Microsoft OS with its own defenses against malware.
Hal Lonas of OpenText Shares Cybersecurity PredictionsWebroot just released its 2020 Threat Report. How has the landscape changed, and what cybersecurity predictions are made for 2020? Hal Lonas...
There are glaring holes in how enterprises currently tackle security analytics, and by redefining the approach, the analyst's role can be transformed. How Chronicle's new approach can transform an analyst's job.
Popular pharmacy chain Walgreens is warning that a bug in its official mobile app may have exposed sensitive data, including customers' full names and information on prescriptions for medications they are taking. While Walgreens did not detail the technical glitch, it said that the internal application error enabled certain personal messages, stored in a database, to be viewed by other customers who were using the mobile app.