Cybersec news in January 2021
Online articles, downloads, reports, opinion and commentary on cybersecurity, datasec and privacy
Whilst our focus is on cybersec news from the broad Asia-Pacific region primarily, we also include a range of ‘rest-of-world’ cybersecurity news items and reports to provide our readers with additional points of reference, food for thought, and a deeper understanding of the many issues revolving around cybersecurity, data security and privacy.
Each news headline listed here covers an aspect of cybersecurity in some way, with each headline linked directly to the news item, report or platform behind the headlines.
- “Rather than relying on lone hackers…today’s cybercriminals function as part of a kind of cooperative shadow industry that rewards innovation and reputation.”
- ICYMI: Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla ban Kazakhstan government browser certificate used to intercept and decrypt citizenry’s internet use, for the second time
- Download: Weaponizing Digital Trade – Creating a Digital Trade Zone to Promote Online Freedom and Cybersecurity, via Council on Foreign Relations (pdf)
- ICYMI: Some Intel 11th Gen processors will be able to detect ransomware attacks at the hardware level, layers below antivirus software’s ability
- “…it’s not just diplomats or central governments who are responsible for cyber defense. Cities, the private sector and individuals have to step in as well.”
- The line between browsers and password managers continues to blur, with Microsoft rolling out new password generator, and Google beefing up existing manager
- Cybersecurity and datasec: “If IoT devices are being cyber-certified, why aren’t mobile applications?”
- Microsoft’s take on 2020 in terms of passwordless technology, and what to expect from the growing field in 2021
- A 2-page round-up of recent data security and cybersec news and info items, linked from PDF for online reading and QR coded for reading from print
- Download: Digital Fraud Trends Report 2021, from DataVisor (pdf)
- Australia: Supplier of one of Northern Territory Government’s cloud-based IT systems hit by ransomware attack, forcing the system offline for 3 weeks
- Download: Australia’s International Cyber Engagement Strategy, covering digital trade, cybercrime, human rights, democracy and more
- Australia: NSW Cyber Security Standards Harmonisation Taskforce releases report and recommendations, urging Australia-wide adoption of global standards
- Microsoft’s take on 2020 in terms of passwordless technology, and what to expect from the growing field in 2021
- A 2-page round-up of recent data security and cybersec news and info items, linked from PDF for online reading and QR coded for reading from print
- With online-gaming set to reach near $200BN in revenue by 2022, the industry has become a lucrative target for cyber criminals
- ICYMI: The Malwarebytes Labs 2020 State of Malware Report, available to download
- New Zealand: Third-party data systems used by Reserve Bank of New Zealand breached, potentially exposing commercially and personally sensitive information
- Taiwan: “Faced with cyberthreats and related challenges, Taiwan has actively promoted policies built around the concept that information security is national security.”
- Australian Securities and Investment Commission server compromised due to use of same software that recently exposed NZ’s central bank
- “These laws compel…businesses and citizens…academic institutions, research service providers and investors…to support and facilitate…gov’t access to collection, transmission and storage of data”
- China: Ant Group, digital payments arm of Alibaba, to sell EyeVerify, US-based biometric security firm, due to tightening scrutiny over US user data
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