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In July 2019, a ransomware attack hit Springhill Medical Center in Mobile, Alabama. Fetal monitors in 12 delivery rooms went dark. A woman arrived to give birth. Nobody told her the hospital’s systems were down. The umbilical cord wrapped around her baby’s neck went undetected. The baby was born with severe brain damage and died … Read more
A Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity startup emerged from stealth this week with a platform that replaces manual cloud security workflows with AI agents (agentic cloud security). Copperhelm is backed by $7 million in seed funding. TLV Partners led the round. Participants included toDay Ventures, ICON, and SaaS Ventures Israel. Notable angel investors included Kfir Tishbi, Or … Read more
It is Friday at 8 p.m. Your team has been wrestling with a problem all week. The systems are encrypted. The backups are gone. Somebody waves the white flag. The call goes to Matt Mosley, an incident response manager at Sygnia. He has answered calls like that from Nigeria. He has answered them from companies … Read more
Louisiana Signs On For Continuous Cyber Risk Monitoring SecurityScorecard has partnered with Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser and the state’s Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism to deploy continuous cyber risk monitoring across five state agencies. The covered agencies include the Louisiana Office of Tourism, the Office of State Parks, the Office of State Museums, … Read more
One Text. Thirty Seconds. Everything Gone. Sandra takes the same route to work each day and pays her tolls automatically. One morning, she got a text saying she owed $11.40 in unpaid E-ZPass fees. The link seemed official, so she clicked it, entered her debit card number, and continued with her morning. Three hours later, … Read more