Privacy

Healthcare IT organizations must adapt to the new threat environment – or risk leaving their users dangerously exposed.

Ninety percent of 40 widely known genetic testing services firms, including 23andMe, Ancestry, and MyHeritage, had received a C grade at most for their cybersecurity efforts, indicating the pervasiveness of poor cybersecurity practices across the DNA services industry, Cybernews reports.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been urged by Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chair Bill Cassidy, R-La., to activate its Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. to thwart China and other nation-state adversaries from obtaining over 15 million Americans' genetic data upon the sale of embattled DNA testing services company 23andMe.

CNBC reports that Apple's appeal against the UK government's order to create a "backdoor" allowing access to encrypted iPhone user data will be heard in public after the country's Investigatory Powers Tribunal dismissed the government's attempt to conduct the hearing behind closed doors due to national security risks.

A former pharmacist is accused of compromising company computers and cameras to spy colleagues.

Widespread call record exposure possible due to Verizon mobile app flaw Millions of people across the U.S. could have had their call records exposed and stolen with the exploitation of a now-fixed vulnerability impacting the Verizon Call Filter app that enables spam call identification and blocking for iOS users, according to SecurityWeek.

Cybernews reports that most of the over 2.8 billion user records belonging to X, formerly Twitter which were purported by threat actor "ThinkingOne" to have been exfiltrated by a disgruntled employee were publicly available information.

U.S. Department of Justice bankruptcy regulators have been urged by Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson to ensure that any buyer of the embattled DNA testing services company 23andMe should comply with the firm's existing data privacy policies.