‘While we expect this process will take time to complete, we are making progress and systems are being restored in a coordinated manner at each of our care sites,’ Ascension said in an update over the weekend. Days after a reported ransomware attack paralyzed Ascension health system, shutting down its electronic health records system and …
The nonprofit and Catholic health system said that on May 8 it ‘detected unusual activity on select technology network systems.’ Ascension, a health system with 140 hospitals and operations in 19 states and Washington, D.C., said that its clinical operations were disrupted after it discovered “unusual activity” on some of its network systems Wednesday. The …
The Microsoft vulnerability could result in gained system privileges, while the Cisco vulnerabilities could lead to a DoS attack. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has put out warnings over vulnerabilities in Microsoft Streaming and the Cisco NX-OS data center network operating system. CISA has issued a binding operational directive to federal civilian executive …
Smashed iPhones are seen during COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on November 30, 2023. Image Credits: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images In 2019, Apple announced it would start sending some security researchers a “special” version of the iPhone designed to be used to find vulnerabilities, which could then be reported to Apple so the …
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As more companies ramp up development of artificial intelligence systems, they are increasingly turning to graphics processing unit (GPU) chips for the computing power they need to run large language models (LLMs) and to crunch data quickly at massive scale. Between video game processing and AI, demand for GPUs has never been higher, and chipmakers …
Security researchers uncovered multiple vulnerabilities with the top three fingerprint sensors used on laptops, allowing them to bypass Microsoft’s Windows Hello biometric authentication system. Blackwing Intelligence detailed their work in a recent blog post, as spotted by The Verge. Microsoft Offensive Research and Security Engineering (MORSE) asked Blackwing to evaluate the security of fingerprint sensors and …