Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Economists Say Data Doesn't Support Fear of Widespread Cognitive Job LossU.S. employment data shows no widespread disruption from generative artificial intelligence nearly three years after ChatGPT's debut, say academics from Yale University. But for certain cohorts, especially early-career workers in AI-vulnerable fields, some cracks are emerging.

Comprehensive Machine Identity Security Needed for Non-Human IdentitiesA study from CyberArk shows that machine identity-related security incidents are increasing as the volume and complexity of machine identities surge. Security leaders must build an end-to-end strategy to secure non-human identities and prevent attacks and outages.

A study investigating the impact of ransomware attacks on hospitals and the ripple effect on nearby facilities is a call to action for policymakers to seriously address how those assaults can be better handled in the health sector, said researchers Rahi Abouk and David Powell.

Emergency Services Are Suspended as Digital Systems Are Pulled OfflineRansomware operators disrupted emergency healthcare services over the weekend, crippling operations in nearly two dozen hospitals in Romania and France. Ransomware attacks increase the in-hospital mortality rate for already-admitted patients, a recent study concluded.