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Why Hospitals Must Rethink Cyber Resilience

Ransomware DataBreachToday.com
1 month 1 week ago
In the face of relentless cyberattacks that threaten patient safety, hospitals must strengthen their resilience, with clinical continuity, secure backups and coordinated recovery emerging as critical strategies, said John Riggi of the American Hospital Association and Josh Howell of Rubrik.

Why Cyber Insurance Faces New AI Liability Risks

Ransomware DataBreachToday.com
1 month 1 week ago
Josephine Wolff on Why Healthcare Must Scrutinize Cyber and AI Coverage
Healthcare organizations face growing pressure to reassess cyber insurance policies as cyberattacks disrupt patient care and AI tools introduce new liability risks. Josephine Wolff of Tufts University discusses how exclusions, compliance demands and AI-related uncertainty shape insurance decisions.

US FCC Lets Consumer Routers Receive Updates Through 2028

Ransomware DataBreachToday.com
1 month 1 week ago
Agency Grants Routers a 18-Month Reprieve From Obsolesce
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission extended through Jan. 1, 2029, a waiver allowing foreign-made routers already approved for use in the United States to continue receiving updates. The agency earlier this year instituted a ban on foreign-made consumer routers, citing national security concerns.

Linux Defenders Face Patch and Exploit Race

Ransomware DataBreachToday.com
1 month 1 week ago
Kernel Privilege Escalation Has One Linux Maintainer Contemplating a 'Kill Switch'
Back-to-back kernel vulnerabilities in Linux has defenders scrambling to apply defenses in the age of quick turnaround time for hackers to exploit nascent flaws. "Dirty Frag" and "Copy Fail" kernel privilege escalation vulnerabilities became public knowledge within two weeks of each other.

Fedora Hummingbird brings the container security model to a Linux host OS

Help Net Security
1 month 1 week ago

Container image security pipelines have spent the past several years pushing toward minimal footprints, hermetic builds, and continuous CVE remediation. The Fedora Project is now applying that same approach to the host operating system. At Red Hat Summit 2026, Fedora announced Fedora Hummingbird, a container-based rolling Linux distribution delivered as an OCI image. “The Linux market has split: IT operations teams need the decades-long stability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, while builders, both human and … More →

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Anamarija Pogorelec

AMD Ionic Driver Vulnerabilities Affecting VMware ESX

VMWare Security Blog
1 month 1 week ago

We would like to bring your attention to a security bulletin from AMD: AMD-SN-2001: Ionic Driver Vulnerabilities. The bulletin details three vulnerabilities — CVE-2025-62623, CVE-2025-62624, and CVE-2025-62627 — present in the AMD ionic cloud driver for VMware ESX. These issues affect ESX hosts using AMD-Pensando DPU (Data Processing Unit) products. We strongly encourage you to … Continued

The post AMD Ionic Driver Vulnerabilities Affecting VMware ESX appeared first on VMware Security Blog.

Praveen Singh

Patch Tuesday, May 2026 Edition

Krebs on Security
1 month 1 week ago
Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkably good at finding security vulnerabilities in human-made computer code. That reality is on full display this month with some of the more widely-used software makers -- including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Oracle -- fixing near record volumes of security bugs, and/or quickening the tempo of their patch releases.
BrianKrebs

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