A federal investigation found that a children’s hospital in Columbus, Ohio, failed to protect employees from workplace violence and serious injuries.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99407-ohio-childrens-hospital-cited-by-osha-for-workplace-violence

At no time in history have organizations spent as much money as they are right now on cybersecurity to prevent bad things from happening.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99412-cybercriminals-are-winning-how-companies-can-turn-the-tide

Online sporting goods retailer Sports Warehouse must pay the state of New York 300,000 in penalties for a data breach affecting 2.5 million consumers.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99410-new-york-attorney-general-seeks-fine-over-sport-warehouse-data-breach

Nine Dollar Tree locations in four states have received workplace safety violations from OSHA. Hazards include blocked exits and chemical exposure.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99408-four-additional-states-cite-dollar-tree-with-workplace-hazards

The NSA and Central Security Service released a threat advisory which highlights a cluster of activity being attributed to a China state-sponsored threat group.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99406-advisory-warning-issued-for-prc-state-sponsored-cyber-activity

The Alamo Area Regional Radio System was completed for public service security. All agencies are now on the same system without needing patches.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99405-san-antonio-updates-security-radio-system

Utility organizations, like other critical infrastructure sites, are faced with ever-present challenges to protect facilities, people and assets.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99402-protecting-critical-infrastructure-with-radar

The responsibility of protecting performers, staff and visitors demands layers of planning and responsiveness driven by intelligent video solutions.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99403-strengthening-concert-fan-safety-with-video-analytics

Increasing ID scams are raising the question of why technological advancements such as biometric authentication have not solved the problem.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99404-why-are-id-fraud-numbers-still-rising

A survey found that, while media and entertainment organizations are still relatively new to cloud storage, public cloud storage use is on the rise.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99396-media-industry-cites-lack-of-native-security-for-public-cloud-issues

A survey indicates that most organizations are not planning to make changes to their database strategies over the course of the next three years.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99395-93-of-organizations-have-database-management-tools-in-place

With talk of a possible global recession this year, security professionals need to start anticipating the potential impacts to securing their organizations.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99400-earning-the-c-in-ciso-staying-secure-through-economic-turbulence

tc is a low-tech free software to chat anonymously and ciphered over Tor circuits in PGP. Use it to protected your communication end-to-end with RSA/DSA encryption and keep yourself anonymously reachable by anyone who only knows your .onion address and your public key. All this and more in 2400 lines of C code that compile and run on BSD and Linux systems with an IRC like GUI.

https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172562/tc.tgz

Wireshark is a GTK±based network protocol analyzer that lets you capture and interactively browse the contents of network frames. The goal of the project is to create a commercial-quality analyzer for Unix and Win32 and to give Wireshark features that are missing from closed-source sniffers. This is the source code release.

https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172578/wireshark-4.0.6.tar.xz

The food and agriculture special interest group of the Information Technology-Information Sharing and Analysis Center is now its own analysis center.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99393-it-isac-launches-food-and-agriculture-analysis-center

The updated #StopRansomware Guide provides best practices and resources to help organizations reduce the risk of ransomware incidents.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99394-cisa-releases-updated-stopransomware-guide

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The City of London Police is expanding its security measures with Motorola Solutions personal body cameras for the entire police force.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99392-london-to-implement-new-police-body-cameras

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is releasing a National AI R&D Strategic Plan. The plan is meant to manage potential AI risks.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99391-biden-announces-additional-ai-planning

According to a recent report, some cyber insurance policies aren’t covering ransomware attacks as the volume of attacks continues to rise.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99390-ransomware-is-being-excluded-from-cyber-insurance-policies