2 Minute Drill: CISA Shake-up, Palo Alto Vulnerability, and HealthNet's $11.2M Fine with Drex DeFord
Episode 12 •
21st February 2025 • This Week Health: Newsroom • This Week Health
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Hey everyone, I'm Drex, and this is The Two Minute Drill, where I cover three hot security stories twice a week. All part of the cyber and risk community here at This Week Health and the 229 Project. Today's two minute drill is brought to you by Intraprise Health, a health catalyst company. With Blueprint, you can pull risk data from all of your tools into a single, unified risk management platform.
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That's happened just in recent days, and it's being reported that Edward Korrestien, a 19 year old staffer in Elon Musk's Dogecrew, has been given physical access to CISA facilities and has been given a DHS email address. It's unclear at this point what systems Coristine has access to. It's concerning because Brian Krebs from Krebs on Security has reported that Coristine has a history of interaction with cybercriminals and CISA, as you know, is the agency that holds U.
your immediate attention. CVE:
And finally today, Managed Care Contractor HealthNet Federal Services has been fined 11. 2 million According to prosecutors, the organization who administers the TRICARE healthcare program in 22 states, falsely certified compliance with cybersecurity controls required in their contract. The Justice Department also accused the company of ignoring internal and third party reports about risks on its network related to patch management, password policies, and end of life hardware and software.
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