CyberSec & Datasec
April 2020 news
A broad collection of cybersecurity, data security and cybercrime news reported across April 2020, focusing where applicable on the broad Asia-Pacific region, and referring to points of reference in the wider world where useful or relevant for context and further information.
- Cybersecurity: Bugcrowd raises $30M, building on intermediary role between security researchers that find bugs and flaws and the products exposed by them
- Demystifying Zero Trust: A deep dive into the move away from trusting a vendor’s network, device and application security by default
- ICYMI: Microsoft Edge browser to introduce new ‘Password Monitor’ feature to alert users if their login credentials have been leaked in data breaches
- Pakistan: Cybersecurity firm discovers data dump of 115M Pakistani mobile users’ data for sale on the dark web
- Australia: New spyware targeting Android users identified by Bitdefender, adding to woes as country targeted by more banking trojans than any other developed country
- Hong Kong Smart Government Innovation Lab unveils security framework for mobile apps to secure against advanced persistent threats, trojans and rootkits
- South Korea: Nonghyup Bank introduces blockchain-backed ‘mobile employee ID’ service, partly driven by North Korean cyber-attacks
- Study finds more than 8% of mobile phone apps may contain hidden vulnerabilities that users never see, including backdoors and master password access
- World Economic Forum report sees cybercrime as the 2nd most-concerning risk for global commerce over the next decade, and potentially world’s 3rd-largest economy
- Demystifying Zero Trust: A deep dive into the move away from trusting a vendor’s network, device and application security by default
- ICYMI: Microsoft Edge browser to introduce new ‘Password Monitor’ feature to alert users if their login credentials have been leaked in data breaches
- ICYMI: UK Gov’t selects Ericsson as vendor to replace China’s Huawei for Britain’s 5G network and equipment
- Taiwan gov’t bans all official use of Zoom, citing cybersecurity concerns over data routed through China
- North Korea-linked hacking group found to be sending spear-phishing email hacks with new target of individuals concerned with North Korean refugees
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