Smarter security for smart devices By Mitchell Bezzina, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Cloud-delivered Security Services, Palo Alto Networks The dependency on IoT devices to enable business, capture data, and facilitate communication is pervasive and continuing to evolve. While some of the most striking benefits of IoT revolve around business process efficiency, productivity, and cost reduction, an increasing number of enterprises are also recognizing IoT as an extraordinary source of intelligence with the ability to surface…

A Tennessee-based healthcare technology services company is facing legal action over a cyber-attack that occurred in August 2021. The class action lawsuit was filed against QRS Healthcare Solutions (QRS, Inc), an electric health record (EHR) vendor and provider of integrated practice management and clinical services, including electronic patient portals. On August 26 2021, QRS discovered that a cyber-attacker had accessed a QRS dedicated patient portal server on which certain sensitive information was stored. According to a data…

The government of Canadian province Nova Scotia is seeking public feedback on improving anti-cyber-bullying legislation enacted in July 2018. Nova Scotia was the first Canadian province to enact a detailed law addressing cyber-bullying and the unauthorized sharing of sexually explicit imagery. The law, known as the Intimate Images and Cyber-protection Act, was created to discourage individuals from bullying others via the internet, over email or through text messages. It further sought to dissuade people from sharing intimate…

Californian technology company Accellion Inc has reached an $8.1m settlement to resolve a legal claim relating to a data breach in December 2020. The class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of victims whose personal information was exposed during a cyber-attack on Accellion’s file transfer appliance (FTA). Accellion had been using the FTA for more than 20 years to securely share files deemed too sensitive or large to be sent over email. Before the cyber-attack occurred, Accellion actively…