Houston Harwood reports: A data breach at a third-party medical records vendor exposed the personal and health information of patients at two Deaconess Health System hospitals in Western Kentucky, the Evansville-based health system disclosed nearly two months after the breach itself occurred. The breach did not affect Deaconess’s internal computer systems or its electronic medical…
Teiss reports: The National Health Service (NHS) is investigating claims that an application programming interface (API) vulnerability at private healthcare provider Medefer left patient data exposed. The issue, initially raised by an IT whistleblower, has prompted scrutiny from the NHS, which has stated it will take further action if necessary. Medefer, a virtual healthcare provider…
Sophos X-Ops’ research, presented at Virus Bulletin 2024, uses ‘multimodal’ AI to classify spam, phishing, and unsafe web content
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Going forward, this might help California residents reduce the chances of their personal information being caught up in some breaches. Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On September 26, 2025, following a public comment period, the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) adopted its regulations concerning the Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform (“DROP”). The DROP is a tool developed to……
Sometimes we forget about breaches when they are out of the immediate news cycle. Here is a reminder that some ransomware attacks have long-lasting impacts. Athena Stavrou reports: Home to more than 170 million items, including Magna Carta, the British Library is one of the world’s largest and most impressive book collections. However, in October……
For the 16th consecutive report, Sophos has been recognized by Gartner as a Leader in the Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP) category.
