Cybersecurity

The Critical Infrastructure Defense Project, a partnership among Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Ping Identity, will provide U.S. hospitals and energy and water utilities free access to zero trust solutions to help them defend against potential cyberattacks.

The legislation advances in the House after clearing the Senate in March, and would offer new cybersecurity training to federal and state governments.

A security notice, submitted to the attorney general of Maine on March 4 by law firm Clark Hill on behalf of DRH, stated that the impacted data might include patients' name, date of birth, Social Security number, limited treatment information and medical appointment information such as date of service and name of providers. 

Colorado officials launch an online program to increase the state's cybersecurity skills and encourage K-12 students to pursue careers in cybersecurity.

According to Wordfence the websites of at least 30 Ukrainian universities have been compromised by a threat actor expressing support for Russia.

UK launched ‘Cyber Explorers’ a free interactive cyber security learning platform to teach essential digital skills to 30,000 students in secondary schools.

New York State governor Kathy Hochul announced the creation of a Joint Security Operations Center (JSOC) to centralize and enhance its cyber-defenses.

Researchers at ESET and Symantec found hundreds of machines across organizations in Ukraine infected with data-wiping malware HermeticWiper.

Ireland has opened public consultation on Digital Connectivity Strategy for Ireland draft that sets out a digital connectivity goal to be achieved by 2030.

Lithuania will be leading the coalition of six EU countries – which also includes Croatia, Poland, Estonia, Romania and the Netherlands – in order “to help Ukrainian institutions to cope with growing cyber-threats.”

HHS' latest brief emphasized the severity of EMR and EHR security risks and urged organizations to implement technical safeguards.

Disaster management, roads administration and water agency's websites were affected, along with the Defence Ministry and the National Institute for Land Transportation.