What is core HR (core human resources)? Core HR (core human resources) is an umbrella term that refers to the basic tasks and functions of an HR department as it manages the employee lifecycle. This includes the basic data captured about employees and the software used to manage basic HR processes, from recruitment to offboarding. […]
Apr 12, 2024The Hacker NewsDevSecOps / Identity Management Identities now transcend human boundaries. Within each line of code and every API call lies a non-human identity. These entities act as programmatic access keys, enabling authentication and facilitating interactions among systems and services, which are essential for every API call, database query, or storage account access. […]
A new threat actor dubbed “Starry Addax” is targeting human rights activists associated with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) cause in North Africa using a novel mobile malware named “FlexStarling.” Starry Addax’s modus operandi involves conducting phishing attacks, enticing victims into installing malicious Android apps that are disguised as legitimate tools. The apps impersonate […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warns that hackers are now using social engineering tactics to target IT help desks across the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector.
Dive Brief: Officials from the White House and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services held a meeting on Tuesday with UnitedHealth and other industry groups to discuss the cyberattack at Change Healthcare, which has disrupted the healthcare sector for three weeks. HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and White House Domestic Policy Advisor Neera Tanden […]
In today’s rapidly evolving SaaS environment, the focus is on human users. This is one of the most compromised areas in SaaS security management and requires strict governance of user roles and permissions, monitoring of privileged users, their level of activity (dormant, active, hyperactive), their type (internal/ external), whether they are joiners, movers, or leavers, […]
UK law firms are falling victim to data breaches primarily because of insiders and human error, according to an analysis of data from the the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). NetDocuments examined data from the ICO covering Q3 2022 to Q2 2023 and found that 60% of data breaches in the UK legal sector were the […]
Louisiana-based medical association Lafourche Medical Group and the Department of Health and Human Services have reached a $480,000 settlement for a cyberattack in 2021 that resulted in the compromise of protected health information from 34,862 individuals, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
Dive Brief: The White House plans to work with the Department of Health and Human Services on a plan to develop minimum standards to protect the healthcare sector from ransomware and other malicious cyber activity, according to Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, said Thursday. The administration is working with […]
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