The government will form a cybersecurity task team in response to the Kakao issues.

After Kakao's weekend outages crippled the country's messaging and settlement systems, the presidential office announced plans to form a cybersecurity task force team to prevent future attacks on the country's critical infrastructure.

Director of the National Security Office...

The EU and the US have teamed up to aid in the development of global cyber security

The United States and the European Union intend to collaborate to protect developing countries' digital infrastructure. Here's why this matters so much.

The Wall Street Journal published a piece earlier this week titled "The US, EU Plan Joint Foreign Aid for Cybersecurity t...

Why Software Vulnerabilities Threaten Patient Safety in ICS Security in Healthcare

One of the most serious risks to the global healthcare industry's purity is a lack of healthcare cybersecurity. The fact that more than 18 million patient records were affected by successful cyber-attacks on the US healthcare sector in 2020 demonstrates this.

Financial assets and in...

North America Observes Increasing Recruitment in the Field of Cybersecurity in Military Industry

North America has extended its dominance in cybersecurity recruitment in companies in the military industry in the three months from September to November 2021.

The number of roles in the continent contributed to 82.9 percent of the total cybersecurity jobs in the third quarter of the y...

China to screen all the big firms online

Highlights:

• Chinese platform firms to list on overseas stock markets to tighten its grip on its sprawling technology sector

The Cyberspace Administration of China has decided to apply new rules to firms that hold data for more than 1 million users. These firms ...

Cybersecurity at Front as Relations between the EU and Taiwan Deepen

Over the past year, relations between the European Union and Taiwan have improved surprisingly with officials from the EU welcoming the diplomatic cooperation on cybersecurity and resilience with the island, much to the dismay of China that wants to isolate Thailand.

This quick improvem...

US partners up with Israel to address ransomware attacks

The US Treasury Department said that it will partner with Israel in order to combat ransomware. Both the countries will be addressing the cybersecurity issue by launching a joint task force.

Highlights

• US and Israel partner up to address cybersecurity<...

JAPAN AIMS TO BOOST CYBERSECURITY CAPABILITIES ALONG WITH ASEAN

Highlights –

• Japan aims to boost cybersecurity capabilities along with ASEAN.
• The world has become more dependent on virtual communications after the outbreak of coronavirus.
• Official members of ASEAN will participate in seminars to ...

U.S. CYBERSECURITY COMPANY FireEye SAYS IT WAS HACKED

Highlights

• According to the statement issued by FireEye, it was hacked, probably by a government and several hacking tools that were used to test the defenses of its clients was stolen

• The company said “A Red Team is gathering of security experts approved a...

AUSTRALIA ON TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT RESEARCH INITIATIVE WITH QUAD PARTNERS

HIGHLIGHTS

• Australia plans to develop a technology network within its Quad partners as the tensions with its biggest trading partner heightened

The move has given direction to maintain critically its cybersecurity as the situation is sensitized...

JAPANESE RESEARCH INSTITUTES DEVELOPING COVID-19 VACCINES HIT BY CYEBRATTACKS

Highlights –

• Japanese research institutes developing COVID-19 vaccines hit by cyberattacks.
• Cyberattacks are reported to have been from China.
• The Japanese govt. National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity has...

SAFERIDE OPENS NEW OFFICE IN GERMANY

HIGHLIGHTS

• SafeRide has opened new office in Germany to expand business in Europe.
• Martin Ridder to lead SafeRide's European office.
• The Europe office of SafeRide Technologies is located in the Bochum area of Germany

A...

AROUND 7,600 JAPANESE FACEBOOK USERS’ ACCOUNTS SUSPECTED TO HAVE BEEN STOLEN

Highlights –

• Around 7,600 Japanese Facebook users’ accounts suspected to have been stolen.
• The data may have been stored on a server based in Russia.
• Since June, domestic users have been receiving videos from fake accounts.

CYBERSECURITY TRENDS 2020

Highlights

• Use of facial recognition tech
• More phishing attacks are likely

Facial recognition is one of the trending developments that is being observed across many sectors worldwide. The security measures till now a...

Why a fragile U.S. infrastructure? The weak tech

The DHS warning did not even use the term "Technology," and it addressed all physical and cyber threats which a nation-state attacker might manipulate.

A number of its recommendations-risk analysis, best practices on cybersecurity, vulnerability scanning and patching, and whit...

Altice Portugal MEO chooses Allot Safe to deal with cyber threats

Altice Portugal's MEO, the country's largest fixed broadband and mobile service provider, has chosen Allot Safe, a Security-as-a-Service (SECaaS) system for protecting mobile users from cyber threats and ensuring parental control on and off the network.

The Allot Safe system com...

Tripwire brings new hardware equipment collection, and joins ISA Global Security Alliance

Tripwire, a leading global security and compliance solutions provider for businesses and industrial organizations, has announced the launch of the hardware line of Tripwire Industrial Appliance to protect industrial environments.

Additionally, Tripwire has announced tha...

Agio celebrates 10 years of successful operations

NEW YORK,— Agio, a leading cybersecurity company and managed IT services mainly for financial services, as well as for the healthcare and payment sectors, celebrates 10 years of successful operations today. The company was originally founded in January 2010 and has become a leading cyber an...

Insight partners to acquire cybersecurity firm Armis

Insight Partners, a U.S.-based private equity firm will buy cybersecurity firm Armis, a cybersecurity firm. The company announced on Monday that the deal be at a valuation of $1.1 billion. 

The enterprise security platform of Armis protects Internet of Things (IoT)...

IoT expects an increase in regulations

The Internet of things or IoT is a system of interrelated computer equipment, mechanical and digital structures, objects, animals or individuals that have the capability, without interaction between people or humans, to transfer data over a network.

Strives to conquer the IoT's Wild...