Cybersecurity

The majority of organizations leverage encryption to secure corporate data held on personal devices, according to a Bitglass survey.

The October cybersecurity newsletter from the HHS Office for Civil Rights focused on securing protected health information held on mobile devices such as cellphones, tablets and laptops.

The Security Service of Ukraine believes a group of hackers called Fancy Bear, allegedly linked to Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate, was behind last week's Bad Rabbit ransomware attack, CyberScoop reports.

The average cost to recover from a data breach was $3.6 million in 2017, according to AT&T's cybersecurity insights report.

Health insurer CareFirst is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court's ruling that permitted a data breach class action lawsuit against the company to advance, according to an analysis by Reuters reporter Alison Frankel.

Reps. Billy Long, R-Mo., and Doris Matsui, D-Calif., reintroduced a bill Tuesday that would require HHS to improve its responses to cyberthreats.

Amazon registered three additional cryptocurrency-related domains Oct. 31, suggesting the e-commerce giant may be preparing its entrance into the cryptocurrency arena, CNBC reports.

A 21-year-old U.K. man was arrested for allegedly selling malware online and deploying distributed denial-of-service attacks on online networks like Google, Skype and Pokemon, Bleeping Computer reports.

The Trump administration has failed to fill key CIO roles for several months, compromising the information security of the nation, according to Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., FedScoop reports.

Seventy percent of office workers said their employer regularly communicates about cyberthreats, according to an Intermedia survey. However, many employees don't know how to appropriately respond to a malware infection.