This survey shows many American consumers are in favor of regulations designed to give them greater control over how businesses use their personal data. 78% of them were aware of the Facebook data-sharing scandal, in which political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica gained access to private information on more than 87 million Facebook users. 94% reported being generally concerned about their data and 57% said that the scandal made them even more concerned about their data privacy and security than they were before. The survey results show that many American consumers are open to regulations designed to give them greater control over how businesses use their personal data. 69% of those surveyed would like to see privacy laws like the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enacted in the US.

To provide insight into some of the top trends in health IT, the Center for Connected Medicine partnered with The Health Management Academy to survey C-suite health system executives on health IT priorities for 2018. The quantitative and qualitative surveys focused on five areas: Cybersecurity, Consumer-Facing Technology, Virtual Care, Artificial Intelligence, and Predictive Analytics.

Historically, the annual Most Wired research has focused on measuring adoption of healthcare information technology to highlight those organizations with the broadest, deepest IT infrastructure. With the ever-growing need to improve healthcare, the research now adds a new emphasis on measuring key areas that can help advance the industry as well as on gathering information about organizations’ technology strategies (which include not just technology adoption but also the refinement of processes and the development of people). With this new focus, this year’s research and future Most Wired research can help identify gaps in healthcare organizations’ technology adoption and strategies and highlight areas in which the industry has opportunities to make progress.

From April 2016 until at least February 2017, attackers have been spreading malware via fake Facebook profiles and pages, breached websites, self-hosted and cloud based websites. Various artifacts indicate that the main target of this campaign is IEC – Israel Electric Company. These include domains, file names, Java package names, and Facebook activity. We dubbed this campaign “Operation Electric Powder“.

SophosLabs takes a specific look at threats being downloaded on GooglePlay that mine a mobile phone’s resources while searching for cryptocurrency.

Based on quantitative consumer research, the report looks at the likelihood that false declines at the point of sale (POS) will prompt consumers to leave their financial institution (FI). The report also looks at technologies that can reduce false declines as well as consumers’ propensity to proactively engage with these technologies.

This report takes you inside the mind of a hacker.

This paper surveys some of the existing smart technologies currently used in smart cities worldwide. Much like our previous reports on exposed smart devices and the hacking of robots in smart factories, this paper will discuss the risks of using smart technologies in critical sectors and will provide actionable steps to help local governments and urban developers design more secure smart cities.

This report focuses on the Appthority Mobile Threat Team’s latest discovery, a new variant of the HospitalGown vulnerability which occurs when app developers fail to require authentication to a Google Firebase cloud database.

Ponemon Institute is pleased to present the findings of the 2018 Global Study on The State Application Security sponsored by Arxan Technologies. We surveyed 1,399 IT and IT security practitioners in the United States, European Union and Asia-Pacific to understand the risk unprotected applications pose to businesses when running in unsecured environments and how they are addressing this risk in practice.

This report seeks to help the reader understand why, “Security should accelerate mobile adoption, not prevent it.”

This is a threat advisory for Bluclub.

Appthority analyzed the security risks of the Uber app and its integration with other apps in this quarter’s enterprise mobile threat update. What they found may surprise you.

This report is based on the survey results conducted by TeleSign. It seeks to understand how businesses are using cloud communications to fuel growth.

From the report, “The state and local government sectors often find themselves understaffed and underfunded to utilize technology to its fullest potential. Recent data breaches and ransomware attacks in the newspaper highlight that governments of all sizes are indeed being targeted and have fallen victim to hackers. State and local governments must be prepared to stop internal and external threats alike. The mix of legacy equipment and small IT and security staffs relative to private industry can create a pressure- filled situation.”

Beginning with the Strava cyber incident, this paper seeks to provide insight into how personal device data can cause a crisis with company data.

This article is fourth in a five-part series developed by Dr. Edward Amoroso in conjunction with the mobile security team from Blue Cedar. The article provides an overview of how mobile app security can be achieved through the technique of code injection.

In this paper, they explore the differences between legitimate mining and cryptojacking; how cryptojacking works; the costs of cryptojacking to today’s organizations; and practical steps you can take to avoid being a victim of cryptojacking.

This is a threat advisory for betFIRST mobile apps

This paper discusses the new threat vector that has been created by bringing an enterprise into the mobile age.

This paper discusses some API’s and how you can protect them from an attack.