The United States and South Korea reaffirmed a commitment to mitigate the risks in technologies including AI, 5G networks and cloud computing, while developing an "inclusive approach" to govern their use. The two countries said governance must support the development of trustworthy AI.
Three suspected Chinese espionage actors aimed a series of cyberattacks against an unnamed Southeast Asian country's critical infrastructure, healthcare and government organizations. Researchers attributed the hacks to APT group Mustang Panda, known for espionage attacks on foreign governments.
Information Security Media Group recently concluded its Cybersecurity Summit: London, which brought together industry leaders for a day of informative sessions covering a diverse range of critical cybersecurity topics, including CISOs' vulnerability to liability, ransomware threats and burnout.
The Hong Kong Consumer Council said it had detected a severe ransomware attack on Wednesday that compromised 65 gigabytes of data, including employee and client information, internal records and possibly the data of current and former staff and their family members.
The British government on Thursday signed onto a European deal easing trans-Atlantic commercial data flows with the United States, telling Parliament that the United Kingdom will accede to a Brussels-led agreement that allows American firms such as Facebook and Google to store Europeans' data.
Indian government officials say they may delay enforcement of the new Digital Personal Data Protection Act to give small businesses and healthcare organizations more time to comply. A decision on the deadline will come sometime after the appointment of a Data Protection Board in the next 30 days.
A day after the British Parliament approved a bill intended to eradicate child abuse content, cabinet officials called on social media giant Meta to halt a rollout of end-to-end encryption. Meta hasn't provided assurances that it will safeguard users, charged Home Secretary Suella Braverman.
Microsoft said Chinese state-affiliated groups have stepped up cyberattacks in 2023 against countries in the South China Sea region - even hacking telecom firms to steal call records for cyberespionage. The most active group, Raspberry Typhoon, targets governments, militaries and infrastructure.
Enterprises are grappling with constantly changing technologies and new stakeholders, making it hard for security teams to achieve both cyber maturity and long-term sustainability. Standardization plays a critical role in cyber resilience, said Sunil Varkey, former CISO of Wipro and Idea Cellular.
The Ukraine war underscores the threats posed by cyberwarfare. India faces its own threats, which means public and private sectors need to work together to defend against nation-state attacks, according to retired Lt. Cdr. Antony KM, vice president of internal audit and cybersecurity at NAB India.
An April ransomware attack against one of Australia's largest law firms swept up the data of 65 Australian government agencies, the country's national cybersecurity coordinator said Monday. The Russian-speaking Alphv hacking group claimed responsibility earlier this year for hacking HWL Ebsworth.
A spate of high-profile ransomware attacks shows that the Asia-Pacific region is squarely in the crosshairs of cybercriminal groups, and some fear that attackers are turning to smaller, regional businesses even less prepared to defend themselves. Expert weigh in on defensive strategies.
Growing reliance on both AI and generative AI is posing new challenges to CISOs. For example, CISOs have limited visibility into how certain large language models were packaged, making it difficult for them to spot security and privacy risks, said Chandan Pani, CISO at LTIMindtree.
China hasn't ordered any restrictions on the use of Apple iPhones by government agencies, according to a Chinese government spokesperson, but the official cited recent security flaws in the iPhone and warned that foreign mobile device manufacturers must abide by domestic information security laws.
Hackers stole the personal details of thousands of police officers and staff in a ransomware attack that swept up one of the United Kingdom's largest law enforcement agencies. The Greater Manchester Police on Thursday described the attack as targeting a third-party supplier of various organizations.
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