Jeffrey Burt Jeffrey Burt has been a journalist for more than three decades, writing about technology since 2000. He’s written for a variety of outlets, including eWEEK, The Next Platform, The Register, The New Stack, eSecurity Planet, and Channel Insider.
Jeffrey Burt
Healthcare Groups Push for Help in Wake of Ransomware Attack on Change
Healthcare providers groups are ramping up pressure on the federal government, lawmakers, and UnitedHealth Group to help hospitals, healthcare clinics, and pharmacies that have gone more than two weeks without payments following the devastating ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, a UnitedHealth company. Meanwhile, notorious ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group BlackCat – also ... Read More
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Cloudflare Unveils a Firewall Designed to Keep LLMs Safe
Cloudflare wants to help organizations wall off their large-language models (LLMs) from cyberthreats and give enterprises an AI framework to ward off risks, many of which are themselves based on the emerging technology. The cloud connectivity and cybersecurity company this week introduced the Firewall for AI, another layer of protection ... Read More
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CISA Warns Phobos Ransomware Groups Attacking Critical Infrastructure
Phobos, a complex ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation that has been around for five years and is includes multiple variants, continues to target a range of critical infrastructure in the United States, including education, healthcare, and emergency services, according to federal agencies. The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued ... Read More
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CISA, Mandiant Warn of a Worsening Situation for Ivanti Users
The federal government and cybersecurity teams are warning organizations that threat groups are exploiting multiple flaws in Ivanti’s VPN appliances despite the vendor’s Integrity Checking Tool (ICT) and even after factory resets. An advisory issued by the FBI, CISA, and international members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance came days ... Read More
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Vishing, Smishing Thrive in Gap in Enterprise, CSP Security Views
There is a significant gap between enterprises’ high expectations that their communications service provider will provide the security needed to protect them against voice and messaging scams and the level of security those CSPs offer, according to telecom and cybersecurity software maker Enea. Bad actors and state-sponsored threat groups, armed ... Read More
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Security Vulnerabilities Popping Up on Hugging Face’s AI Platform
Hugging Face is emerging as a significant player in the rapidly expanding generative AI space, with its highly popular open collaboration platform being used by software developers to host machine learning models, datasets, and applications. That popularity – Hugging Face was listed as the fourth-most popular generative AI service in ... Read More
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Biden EO Will Keep China, Russia From Buying Americans’ Sensitive Data
The Biden Administration wants to stop data brokers and other companies from selling sensitive personal data of American citizens to organizations in China, Russia, and other adversarial countries. President Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order giving the Justice, Homeland Security, and other federal departments authority to create rules to ... Read More
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White House to Software Developers: Use Memory Safe Languages
The Biden Administration is continuing to lean on software developers to use memory safe languages to harden their applications against cyberattacks. A technical report this week from the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) said moving away from legacy languages like C and C++ and adopting more modern ... Read More
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Malicious Packages in npm, PyPI Highlight Supply Chain Threat
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Software developers are being targeted with malicious packages in npm and PyPI as threat groups launch software supply-chain attacks ... Read More
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LockBit Ransomware Group Returns After Law Enforcement Operation
The LockBit ransomware group is swinging back days after U.S. and UK law enforcement agencies announced they had disrupted the operations of the prolific cybercrime gang ... Read More
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