Chris Larsen, the co-founder and executive chairman of ripple, an alternate cryptocurrency to bitcoin, is now worth roughly $59.9 billion, ranking him among the top five richest people in America, according to CNBC.
Cybersecurity
The tech industry is scrambling this week to quickly update cloud services and other products after vulnerabilities in processors used on almost every computer were disclosed to The Register by researchers Tuesday, according to CNBC.
The cybersecurity community began work Wednesday to patch vulnerabilities in processors used on almost every computer around the world, according to CNBC.
Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine mailed letters to roughly 1,000 patients, alerting them to a potential compromise of their personal information after an unencrypted laptop was stolen from the hospital, a spokesperson told Becker's Hospital Review.
Although ripple is the world's second-largest cryptocurrency by market value, it's not listed on Coinbase, the No. 1 exchange platform for crytpocurrencies. But, the digital coin hit a record high Wednesday and continues to rally, CNBC reports.
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Fifty-six percent of Americans feel as if the country as a whole is less secure today than past years, according to a survey Tempe, Ariz.-based University of Phoenix released Oct. 26.
Cybersecurity company McAfee Labs recorded a 10 percent surge in malware volume during the third quarter of 2017, detecting nearly 57.6 million samples, according to a Dec. 18 report.
Privacy incidents at technology companies, hospitals and other healthcare organizations captured public attention last month.
Miracle-Ear and Best Hearing Products are notifying 554 of Best Hearing Products' clients that their personal health information may have been exposed when an unknown and unauthorized intruder gained access to the email account of an employee who provides support…
St. Louis-based SSM Health is notifying at least 29,000 patients whose records were inappropriately accessed by an employee in the customer service call center between Feb. 13 and Oct. 20, 2017.