Tag: Data breaches
“I’ve been trying to take everything that’s been negative about this and … turn it into some sort of positive,” Robert Cioffi said in an interview. Robert Cioffi, chief technology officer and co-founder of Progressive Computing, one of the MSPs hit in the 2021 Kaseya ransomware attack, traveled about 1,500 miles from his home in…
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The company says there’s ‘no evidence that the threat actor accessed the contents of users’ accounts’ in the breach of its Dropbox Sign service. Dropbox disclosed that its eSignature service, Dropbox Sign, was compromised and authentication data such as hashed passwords, API keys and OAuth tokens for some users were accessed. Certain customer information and…
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As UnitedHealth’s CEO gets grilled by a U.S. Senate committee, the folly of acquiring a company with outdated cybersecurity practices is on display. Among the many lessons from the Change Healthcare cyberattack, one that’s come into clearer focus this week goes something like this: Companies that ignore cybersecurity as part of an M&A process, do…
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In testimony slated to be delivered before a U.S. House committee, UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty says that hackers used stolen credentials to log in to a Citrix remote access portal, using an account that didn’t have multifactor authentication enabled. UnitedHealth Group disclosed that hackers broke into Change Healthcare IT systems in February using stolen…
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‘One of the things we’ve been really pushing out there is becoming that chief AI strategist … just like a virtual CISO, we’re that virtual person that is out there coming in to assess, making sure you get all your ducks in a row. And then as you go down that path, really handholding you,…
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‘All of these tools are now available, the sophistication of how people can deploy these models across various business processes where there is data and where there is tuning of these models is also getting more widespread, even at systems integrators and other developers [that] are there to help enterprises,’ says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.…
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AI, Azure and security are just some of the biggest topics expected to come up Thursday on the company’s third fiscal quarter earnings call. Updates on Microsoft’s artificial intelligence and Copilot offerings. Growth in the cloud and Azure business. And the tech giant’s position in the ever-competitive security market. These are some of the biggest…
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“A lot of backup companies are buying security companies. Our view is, we want to buy something in the prevention business, not in the ‘aftereffects’ business. If you suffer from an incident, what you do after the incident of course is hugely important. But whatever you can do prior to the incident is even more…
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The data stolen from prescription processor Change Healthcare includes ‘files containing protected health information (PHI) or personally identifiable information (PII),’ UnitedHealth says. UnitedHealth Group said in a statement Monday it’s confirming that a potentially significant amount of data belonging to Americans may have been stolen in the Change Healthcare cyberattack earlier this year. The stolen…
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