A flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP code, tracked as CVE-2026-98432, affects Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and other Linux distributions. The kernel's own CVE team rates it 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scale. Anthropic said on October 27 that its AI model wrote an exploit t…
M&A rose, but company valuations declined in the first half of 2026 compared with the year-ago period, according to EY’s Pulse of the Industry report.
A four-question exercise that CISOs can use to create a threat model that promises results, without a big spend.
EMBRACE affects AI coding tools Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, VS Code and Claude Desktop, enabling code execution, file theft and browser address-bar spoofing.
Threat actors are delivering malicious loaders and cryptocurrency miners under the guise of artificial intelligence (AI) desktop applications for Anthropic Claude and OpenAI ChatGPT as part of a campaign dubbed Yoba. The activity involves creating fake GitHub projects that claim…
Rural hospitals across the country are experiencing severe financial challenges that are putting them at risk of closure. An analysis by the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform published on October 28 shows that one-third of rural hospitals are on the precipice and m…
Business and financial news from PointClickCare, Direct Trust, Oracle, Vera Health, AstraZeneca and more. The post Health IT Business News, Financial Edition – October 29, 2026 appeared first on Health IT Answers.
Microsoft has resolved a known issue that prevents non-admin users from connecting to devices via Remote Desktop when the "Administrator protection" security feature is enabled. [...]
AI agents can control authenticated browsers, interact with corporate applications, and access sensitive data while appearing to act as legitimate employees. Keep Aware examines three ways agents operate inside browsers and why traditional security tools may struggle to distingui…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned federal agencies to patch a high-severity Linux kernel privilege escalation bug that attackers are chaining with the PHP2Shell flaws in the wild. [...]
Google on Wednesday took the wraps off Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities. "It shows significant gains across coding and agentic tasks as well as across key capabilities critical for cybersecurity defense,…
The first-of-its-kind transcatheter device treats paravalvular leak after valve replacement surgery, to spare the patient from another open-heart surgery.
New ADEX research shows how AI is making familiar scams cheaper and harder to detect, while fraudsters prepare to target AI shopping assistants.
A revised $32 million settlement has received first approval from the court to resolve class action data breach litigation against […] The post GoodRx & Criteo Revised $32 Million Data Privacy Settlement Gets First Approval appeared first on The HIPAA Journal.
New York, New York, 29th October 2026, CyberNewswire
By Peter Leo - In healthcare AI, the quality of a model is inseparable from the quality of the clinical judgments used to train and evaluate it. An annotation is not a simple administrative label attached to an image or text file; it is a clinical interpretation made by a qualifi…
Microsoft released the KB5127936 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 versions 25H2 and 26H2, with 41 changes, including File Explorer and Cloud rebuild improvements. [...]
Hospital Ransomware Attacker Receives 70 Month Jail Term The HIPAA Journal
Artem Stryzhak gets 70 months for Nefilim and Hive ransomware attacks targeting hospitals, government agencies and businesses in the US and overseas.
A Ukrainian affiliate of the Nefilim & Hive ransomware operations who attacked hospitals, government entities, and businesses over a three-year […] The post Hospital Ransomware Attacker Receives 70 Month Jail Term appeared first on The HIPAA Journal.
