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Shadow Assistant Communications Minister and Shadow Assistant Cyber Security Minister Tim Watts Screenshot: Stilgherrian A UK-style national Active Cyber Defence program (ACD) and a volunteer-driven Civilian Cyber Corps (C3) are two key components of a cyber resilience program being discussed by the Australian Labor Party. “It’s not just about critical infrastructure or government departments, although […] More
The US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced today that it intends to run DoH (DNS-over-HTTPS) and DoT (DNS-over-TLS) DNS resolution servers for official government use, however, it advises agencies to disable DoH and DoT support on employees’ browsers until official CISA servers are available. The agency issued a memorandum […] More
The New South Wales Police Force has forged a new technology partnership with New York-based Mark43. The partnership will see the force adopt the company’s cloud-based records management software and its computer aided dispatch system, through Unisys Australia. See also: NSW Police signs six-year biometric identification deal “Mark43’s records management system provides the most intuitive, […] More
Image: ZDNet // Catalin Cimpanu A growing number of public companies are now listing ransomware as a forward-looking risk factor in documents filed with the US Securities Exchange Commission. More than 1,000 documents mentioning ransomware as a risk factor have been filed over the last 12 months, and more than 700 in 2020 alone, with […] More
Image:Group-IB A cybercrime group operating since mid-2019 has breached the email accounts of high-ranking executives at more than 150 companies, cyber-security firm Group-IB reported today. The group, codenamed PerSwaysion, appears to have targeted the financial sector primarily, which accounted for more than half of its victims; although, victims have been recorded at companies active across […] More
Image: Pankaj Patel, NSA, ZDNet The US National Security Agency (NSA) published last week a security assessment of today’s most popular video conferencing, text chatting, and collaboration tools. The guidance contains a list of security criteria that the NSA hopes companies take into consideration when selecting which telework tool/service they want to deploy in their […] More
It’s an environment where having the slightest edge over an opponent can be the difference between winning and losing, which means cheating is often an unfortunate part of many sports. And the rise of online gaming means that the underhand behaviour that so often has undermined real-world sporting competitions has been extended into the digital […] More
The US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published security advice for organizations that may have rushed out Office 365 deployments to support remote working during the coronavirus pandemic. CISA warns that it continues to see organizations that have failed to implement security best practices for their Office 365 implementation. […] More
