BACKGROUND: Today marks International Women in Engineering Day and we wanted to share a comment on how our education systems need to highlight female leaders and experiences. IWED is an international awareness campaign that celebrates the work and achievements of women engineers.
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BACKGROUND: The European Commission is today laying out a vision to build a new Joint Cyber Unit to tackle the rising number of serious cyber incidents impacting public services, businesses and citizens across the European Union.The Unit will allow national capitals hit by cyberattacks to ask for help from other countries and the EU, including through rapid response teams that can swoop in and fight off hackers in real time. The plan would also set up a platform for cybercrime police, cyber agencies, diplomats, military services and cybersecurity firms to coordinate responses and share resources.
BACKGROUND: Ethical Hacker Shares Insight on the latest ransomware attack on My Egg Bank, a Georgia-based fertility clinic.
New research from Arctic Wolf reveals: Three quarters (73%) of UK small and medium-sized business leaders think their workforces lack the capability and expertise to withstand a cybersecurity attack ‘Alert fatigue’ sees over a third (39%) overwhelmed by theamount of cybersecurity alerts they receive daily Over half (55%) of SMBs admit cybersecurity issues are regularlydeprioritised in favour of other business activityLONDON – June 22, 2021: Three quarters (73%) of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the United Kingdom lack the capability and expertise to withstand a cybersecurity attack according to their bosses, a new report from Arctic Wolf®, the leader…
BACKGROUND: News has broken that a bill has been introduced into the Australian House of Representatives that requires organisations to disclose when they make ransomware payments. The Ransomware Payments Bill 2021 was introduced on Monday by Labour Shadow Assistant Minister for Cyber Security Tim Watts, who said there was an “urgent need for this bill”.
BACKGROUND: TurboTax has warned customers of a data breach, apparently caused by people reusing passwords from other sites.
BACKGROUND: A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation yesterday to invoke stronger penalties for ransomware and other attacks against critical infrastructure (CI). The legislation would also equip the Justice Department to pursue criminal charges against foreign-based threat actors. The International Cybercrime Prevention Act will also make it easier for the DOJ to go after botnets as it adds these to actions against which the US can seek injunctive relief. In response, cybersecurity experts Dr. Chenxi Wang and David Stewart offer comments.
BACKGROUND: Wegmans Food Markets notified customers that some of their information was exposed after the company became aware that two of its databases were publicly accessible on the Internet because of a configuration issue. “We recently became aware that, due to a previously undiscovered configuration issue, two of our cloud databases, which are used for business purposes and are meant to be kept internal to Wegmans, were inadvertently left open to potential outside access,” the supermarket chain said in a press release. Customer information exposed in the data breach included names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, Shoppers Club numbers, and…
Innovations also enable data protection policies to extend to images of identification documents such as passports; for GDPR compliance Netskope, the SASE leader, today announced newly-issued patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, designed to protect data within image formats including JPG, PNG, and GIF. These inventions support organisations tackling regulatory compliance needs such as GDPR and LGPD, as well as protecting confidential corporate information by enabling granular and contextual data protection policies to be extended to image files. As organisations shifted toward a remote-first workstyle, confidential meetings over video conference have become a daily occurrence in business. Research…
BACKGROUND: A North Korean hacking group breached South Korea’s state-run nuclear research institute last month. The group has a history of carrying out high-profile attacks against South Korea. The 13 unauthorized IP addresses were detected during the investigation which traced back to North Korean cyberespionage group.