Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Of course there is, and in some surprising places. Here is a report by the The Citizen Lab, examining how Microsoft Bing censors autosuggestions on politically sensitive Chinese names and other topics. This is not only applied in China, as we would expect, but in other regions too! Bada Bing, …
This is an interesting story from Cedric Pernet at TechRepublic looking at the types of threats and attacks faced by journalists: State-sponsored cyberespionage campaigns continue targeting journalists and media | TechRepublic It gives you an idea of the investment in time, money and technical resources state sponsored hacking groups make. …
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Well according to report by the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee it is “incoherent and muted”: Encoding values: Putting tech at the heart of UK foreign policy – Foreign Affairs Committee (parliament.uk) Then there was this from last week: UK response to Chinas tech push ‘incoherent and muted’ • …
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This post was first published on 5 July 2022. The Chinese President, Xi Jinping, is calling for improved cyber security, in the country following the unprecedented alleged data theft by ChinaDan: Security warning after sale of stolen Chinese data – BBC News Details of the theft are starting to be …
Ken McCallum, the MI5 director general and Christopher Wray, the FBI director have delivered a joint statement at the MI5 building in London, warning that China is carrying out economic espionage and hacking operations to steal technology for competitive gain. “We consistently see that it’s the Chinese government that poses …
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have issued a joint advisory about Chinese state sponsored threats. People’s Republic of China State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Exploit Network Providers and Devices | CISA Chinese threat actors have been detected actively …
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Researchers uncover years-long espionage campaign targeting dozens of global companies – The Record by Recorded Future The US Justice Department and the FBI have received information from researchers at Cyberreason, of a long term infiltration of dozens of unnamed North American companies, for purposes of stealing company secrets and IP. …
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