Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Also: AI's Push Into Health Data, CrowdStrike's Move to Reshape Competitive MarketIn this week's panel, four editors explored how old threats like digital skimming are evolving, why AI tech's push into personal health data is raising new questions and what CrowdStrike's back-to-back acquisitions say about where cybersecurity competition is heading.

Hundreds of Firewall Alarms Sounded But Weren't Heeded, CrowdStrike Probe FindsThe governor of Rhode Island slammed professional services firm Deloitte for failing to spot a months-long hack attack against the RIBridges health and human services data environment it manages, despite hundreds of firewall alerts sounding as attackers exfiltrated gigabytes of data.

Researchers track the healthcare sector as experiencing the biggest financial losses, with banking and transportation following close behind.

A faulty software update from cybersecurity vendor Crowdstrike crippled countless Microsoft Windows computers across the globe today, disrupting everything from airline travel and financial institutions to hospitals and businesses online. Crowdstrike said a fix has been deployed, but experts say the recovery from this outage could take some time, as Crowdstrike's solution needs to be applied manually on a per-machine basis.

On July 19, 2024, a large-scale outage emerged affecting Windows computers for many industries across the globe from financial institutions to hospitals to airlines. The source of this outage came from a single content update from CrowdStrike.

CrowdStrike Falcon Insight for IoT covers Internet of Things, Industrial IoT, Operations Technology, as well as medical devices.

CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, and Ping Identity have teamed up with tools and services for the healthcare, power, and water industries as a way to quickly bolster their security on several fronts.