With recent disclosures surrounding medical embedded device security, hospitals are looking to in-room device manufacturers to provide additional disclosures and guaranties around medical devices and software in use at their locations. “Hospital-technology officials say gaining access to the software running inside devices—and knowledge of its vulnerabilities—would help them build firewalls

In the dynamic world of cyber conflict organizations either evolve or die. Tracking how threat actors evolve can help better position our defenses. One dynamic of note is the evolution of the APT group known as Group 123, Reaper or ScarCruft. ScarCruft attracted some attention early last year for employing

In a new essay, Melissa Hathaway makes the case for more sustainable and deliberate collective approaches to building security and trust into new systems and more robust disclosure processes. “We must become much more strategic in how new digital technologies are created and deployed.  Over the last 30 years, we

Artificial intelligence has defeated chess grandmasters, Go champions, professional poker players, and, now, world-class human experts in the online strategy games Dota 2 and StarCraft II. No AI currently exists, however, that can outduel a human strapped into a fighter jet in a high-speed, high-G dogfight. As modern warfare evolves

In a story excerpted from Jim Sciutto’s book Shadow War, additional details regarding China’s business espionage activities is detailed. “As it turns out, Su and his partners would have unfettered access inside Boeing’s network for three years before the intrusion was first discovered. During that time, they would claim to

Researchers have once again discovered a trove of unprotected personal information accessible via public cloud servers. “An unprotected Elasticsearch cluster exposed 3,427,396 records containing sensitive personal information on Panama citizens with ‘patient’ labels, together with another 468,086 records labeled as ‘test patients’.” Source: Sensitive Information of Millions of Panama Citizens

A U.S. military report identifies that drone operations in the Middle East have been impacted by electromagnetic interference. “‘Due to maintenance issues, disabled video broadcasting devices, and electromagnetic interference, about 11 percent of Coalition ISR coverage this quarter was lost, specifically affecting areas along the Iraq-Syria border and in northern

Included in China’s Twitter response to U.S. tariffs being increased on products originating in China, the threat of China selling U.S. Treasury bonds was explicitly called out a viable response option. Other responses included introducing tariffs on U.S. exports to China. Long considered a risk to the U.S. economy, this

A new payments application allows for the use of cryptocurrencies in popular retail stores. While the half-hearted step requires the use of a special application as opposed to accepting cryptocurrencies via a wallet/blockchain transaction, it does offer a new use case for spending cryptocurrencies at popular vendors and retailers. “Companies

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) had previously identified the foreign ownership stake in Grindr as representing a security risk to the United States. Now CFIUS has reached an agreement with the company Beijing Kunlun Tech which acquired a 60% stake in Grindr to sell its