Other news: Facebook removes accounts it says are tied to Russian hackers; India bans more Chinese apps; and hackers hide malicious activity in Google traffic.
The burden of responsibility for successful hacks still falls largely on chief information and security officers, rather than chief executives.
The blending of physical and digital security in critical infrastructure and manufacturing raises the possibility of attacks so damaging that peoples lives could be lost, said Katell Thielemann, an analyst at Gartner Inc.
But acting rashly can harm a companys effort to determine what went wrong and which data was compromised, according to cybersecurity authorities in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K.
Total number of patients whose data was compromised in a cyberattack at a business partner of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare.
But the company said the recent efforts small reachtotaling 13 accounts and two pagesshows Facebook is getting better at detecting foreign political manipulation efforts before such content spreads widely, The Wall Street Journal reports. Much of the groups efforts were tied to a website called PeaceData.net, for which the IRA allegedly tried to recruit freelance journalists as writers.
The Baidu shopping search engine, business-card scanning software and more than 110 other Chinese apps are no longer welcome in India, the BBC reports. Companies arent likely to block widely used Google sites from employees, according to cybersecurity firm Huntress Labs, which is studying the strategy.
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