Security Threats

26 Aug 2024

Data breach at ParkTree Community Health Center exposes sensitive patient information

ParkTree Community Health Center (PCHC), a healthcare services provider in Pomona, California, has reported a significant data breach that compromised the sensitive information of its patients.

Going beyond CVSS scores to secure cyber-physical systems

12 Jul 2024

Vulnerability management often focuses on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System, but this misses key exposures in cyber-physical systems

Taking an offensive approach to pen testing

10 Jul 2024

An offensive approach to penetration testing is critical to safeguarding critical national infrastructure against cyber-threats

Guarding the future against AI hallucinations

10 Jul 2024

AI is transforming software development in terms of speed and effectiveness. But it comes with major challenges which require human oversight

Analytics and AI for cyber-security leaders

09 Jul 2024

CISOs will find themselves better equipped if they view organisations through a cyber-security lens enriched by predicative analytics and AI filters

28 Jun 2024

Cyber-security in healthcare

A network lacking robust segmentation will take four times as long to stop a ransomware attack compared with a properly segmented network

Costa Rica's public health service disrupted by yet another ransomware attack

02 Jun 2022

Within days after Costa Rican government departments suffered a disruptive ransomware attack from the Conti group, the country’s public health service suffered another ransomware attack that forced it to take its systems offline.

The expert view: Automating IT securitySponsored by ThreatQuotient

12 Apr 2022

More than three-quarters of cyber security decision-makers believe that automation is important, according to research from ThreatQuotient. However, many organisations are struggling to move ahead with automation, and this was certainly the case with attendees at a recent virtual Teiss event.

Around 16% of global firms targeted with Spring4Shell - Reports

07 Apr 2022

Security researchers at Check Point Research have spotted 37,000 attempts to exploit the critical new SpringShell (Spring4Shell) vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2022-22965), which impacts the Spring Framework, which is the most widely used lightweight open-source framework for Java to help reduce the amount of effort required to produce a working application.

FBI currently investigates more than 100 ransomware variants

31 Mar 2022

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the US is currently investigating over 100 different ransomware variants that have been used in multiple ransomware attacks against critical IT infrastructures across the nation.

08 Jul 2024

Managing M&A cyber-security risks

Zero trust is at the centre of a secure acquisition; but there are other strategies to follow that are also important