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Slack has expanded its data residency program to Australia to enable user-generated data on Slack to be stored locally in Sydney on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Speaking to ZDNet, Slack interim CSO Larkin Ryder explained how expanding the program would allow organisations in highly regulated sectors, such as government and financial services, to be able […] More
Image: Gravity Co., Ltd. Special feature Cyberwar and the Future of Cybersecurity Today’s security threats have expanded in scope and seriousness. There can now be millions — or even billions — of dollars at risk when information security isn’t handled properly. Read More One of China’s largest state-sponsored hacking groups has attempted to breach the […] More
A team of academics says they’ve discovered a new security bug that impacts Xilinx FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) chipsets. Named Starbleed, the bug allows attackers — with both physical or remote access — to extract and tamper with an FGPA’s bitstream (configuration file) to reprogram the chip with malicious code. What are FPGAs? FPGAs […] More
In January of 2019, almost fifteen months ago, I wrote an opinion editorial on ZDNet about the Internet of Human Things. The premise was that the traditional wallet, with cash and plastic credit cards, was outdated, was rife with security issues, and it needed to die. The wallet’s replacement, I argued, should be RFID implants, […] More
Google Cloud on Monday rolled out BeyondCorp Remote Access, a new cloud-based product that allows employees to securely access their company’s internal web apps from any device or any location. Amid the scramble to get employees working remotely through the COVID-19 pandemic, the new product aims to quickly provide secure access to browser-based apps. “Over […] More
The gang behind the Trickbot malware is at the forefront of attempts to use the ongoing coronavirus crisis to trick computer users into downloading malware onto their devices. Microsoft’s Security Intelligence team said that during last week alone, the operation behind Trickbot sent out hundreds of emails purporting to relate to COVID-19 medical advice and testing, […] More
No more excuses, Cloudflare says, when it comes to BGP security, with the introduction of a new tool that can hold ISPs to account for their BGP safety measures. Last week, the cloud services provider said that Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) security issues have been an accepted part of the threat landscape for too long, […] More
Microsoft has revealed how it’s applying machine learning to the challenge of correctly identifying which bug reports are actually security-related. Its goal is to correctly identify security bugs at scale using a machine-learning model to analyze just the label of bug reports. According to Microsoft, its 47,000 developers generate about 30,000 bugs a month, but […] More
