Source: thehackernews.com β Author: . A new report from XM Cyber has found β among other insights β a dramatic gap between where most organizations focus their security efforts, and where the most serious threats actually reside. The new report, Navigating the Paths of Risk: The State of Exposure Management in 2024, is based on [β¦]
Source: securityboulevard.com β Author: Nathan Eddy Ransomware claims surged by 64% year-over-year, particularly among mid-market and emerging businesses. There was a sharp rise in βindirectβ ransomware incidents, which grew by more than 415% compared to 2022. These were among the key findings from At-Bayβs investigation into the anatomy of ransomware attacks in the U.S. in [β¦]
Overall ransomware frequency grew by 64% in 2023, with increases in both direct and indirect ransomware. Victims paid $282,000 in ransom on average, a 77% drop in price, and half the companies avoided paying a ransom completely.
A review of a limited number of cases of unresponsive patients with severe traumatic brain injuries raised questions about a custom of making a decision within 72 hours.
A new study found that 42 percent of those who had continued life support recovered enough in the next year to have some degree of independence. A few even returned to their former lives.
The landscape of VPN technology is rapidly changing, signaling potential obsolescence as new threats specifically target these technologies. In recent research by Veriti, weβve observed a significant increase in attacks on VPN infrastructures, with a focus on exploiting vulnerabilities that have been prevalent but not always prioritized for remediation.Β In the past few weeks alone, [β¦]
An NHS trustβs attempts to bring a crucial drug to market itself is hopeful news for patients
Dr Catriona Crombie is the head of rare disease at medical charity LifeArc
Healthcare should make peopleβs lives better. That fact can hardly be contested. Yet for some patients with rare diseases, commercial interests are dictating who gets to access life-saving treatment and who doesnβt. Pharmaceutical companies have long been driven by global demand and the potential for the highest profits. In the past two decades, the market has exploded: pharma revenues worldwide have exceeded $1tn. For patients with common conditions, this investment in healthcare can only be good news. But the narrow focus of this strategy means that, in the UK, the one in 17 of us who will at some point be affected by a rare condition risk being forgotten.
That is until now. Healthcare providers, driven by a desire to make life-saving treatments more widely available, are increasingly finding new ways of getting them to patients for whom they would have previously been out of reach. Great Ormond Street hospital (Gosh) recently announced that it was taking the unprecedented step of attempting to obtain the licence itself for a rare gene therapy on a non-profit basis, after the pharmaceutical company that planned to bring it to market dropped out. If successful, it will be the first time that an NHS trust has the authorisation to market a drug for this kind of treatment. The move could act as a proof of concept for bringing drugs to UK patients that pharmaceutical companies arenβt willing to risk their profits on.
Dr Catriona Crombie is the head of rare disease at medical charity LifeArc
Source: news.sophos.com β Author: Angela Gunn The deluge of patches in April dried up substantially in May, as Microsoft on Tuesday released 59 patches touching 11 product families. Windows as usual takes the lionβs share of patches with 48, with the rest spread among .NET, 365 Apps for Enterprise, Azure, Bing Search for iOS, Dynamics [β¦]
New research shows the βupside-down treesβ originated in Madagascar and then caught a ride on ocean currents to reach mainland Africa and Australia.
Researchers had been testing a sprayer that could one day be used to push a salty mist skyward, cooling the Earth. Officials stopped the work, citing health questions.
A science video maker in China couldnβt find a good explanation for why hot and cold water sound different, so he did his own research and published it.
Our ongoing research has identified remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in F5βs Next Central Manager that can give attackers full administrative control of the device, and subsequently allow attackers to create accounts on any F5 assets managed by the Next Central Manager. These attacker-controlled accounts would not be visible from the Next Central Manager itself, enabling ongoing [β¦]
Last week, Microsoft announced the public preview of external authentication methods (EAM) for Entra ID. As a close partner, HYPR has worked extensively with Microsoft on the new offering and we are excited to be one of the first external authentication method integrations. This means organizations can now choose HYPR phishing-resistant authentication for their Entra ID MFA method, use it in Entra ID Conditional Access policies, Privileged Identity Management, and more.
People with two copies of the gene variant APOE4 are almost certain to get Alzheimerβs, say researchers, who proposed a framework under which such patients could be diagnosed years before symptoms.
Recent studies cast doubt on whether large-scale mental health interventions are making young people better. Some even suggest they can have a negative effect.
FIDO2 is a modern authentication group term for passwordless authentication. The Fast Identity Online (FIDO)Β Alliance developed it to replace the use of legacy known passwords and provide a secure method to authenticate using a physical or embedded key.Β Β FIDO2 is mostly known to protect people from man-in-the-middle (MITM), phishing and session hijacking attacks.Β Β In this...
New research finds that the death rate among Black youths soared by 37 percent, and among Native American youths by 22 percent, between 2014 and 2020, compared with less than 5 percent for white youths.
Flowers for Karon Blake, 13, who was shot and killed in Washington, D.C., in January 2023. Gun-related deaths were two to four times higher among Black and Native American youth than among white youth.
Gas-burning ranges, a significant contributor to indoor pollution, can produce and spread particularly high levels of some pollutants in smaller spaces.
Comparing 30,000 years of human history, researchers found that surviving famine, war or climate change helps groups recover more quickly from future shocks.
With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects.
An algorithm and cloud computing identified overlooked space rocks. Most, in green, are in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but other items in orange share Jupiterβs orbit, and items in light blue are closer to Earth.
With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects.
An algorithm and cloud computing identified overlooked space rocks. Most, in green, are in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but other items in orange share Jupiterβs orbit, and items in light blue are closer to Earth.
The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of an escalating U.S.-China struggle for technological influence.
The fossils found in 2006 in the Montana sandstone, now on view at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science, were named βthe dueling dinosaursβ because they featured what appeared to be a Triceratops and a Tyrannosaurus locked in a death match.
The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of an escalating U.S.-China struggle for technological influence.
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