ISMG Editors: Is TikTok a Ticking Time Bomb? – Source: www.govinfosecurity.com

Also, US Takes Action on Spyware; Law Firm Fined After Health Breach

May 17, 2023    

In the latest weekly update, four editors at Information Security Media Group discuss how national security concerns about the popular social media app TikTok are heating up, how New York’s attorney general hit a law firm with a $200,000 settlement in a health data breach, and the impact of U.S. government limits on advanced smartphone spyware.

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The panelists – Anna Delaney, director, productions; Mathew Schwartz, executive editor, DataBreachToday and Europe; Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, executive editor, HealthcareInfoSecurity; and Tony Morbin, executive news editor, EU – discuss:

• The future of TikTok as the U.S. threatens to ban the social media app, citing concerns about national security;
• How the U.S. government limited its use of advanced surveillance software such as Pegasus through an executive order signed by President Joe Biden prohibiting agencies from buying licenses for spyware used by foreign governments to spy on dissidents;
• How a New York medical malpractice law firm will pay $200,000 and implement data security improvements to settle a HIPAA enforcement action by the state attorney general’s office following a 2021 ransomware attack by LockBit.

The ISMG Editors’ Panel runs weekly. Don’t miss our previous installments, including the March 17 edition discussing whether the SVB crash will kill cybersecurity innovation and the March 24 edition discussing what’s next in Russia’s cyber war.

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