Cybersecurity news in May
The headlines here provide a collection of May 2021’s crypto news headlines, covering cryptocurrency and digital currency technologies.
The May 2021 crypto news summary brings together items on subjects including PayPal’s reported steps towards a stablecoin, China’s ban on crypto services, Vietnam’s crypto-involved gaming startups, EBay’s moves towards NFT sales, and many more.
The headline listing provides a bullet-point overview of developments in the crypto world, focusing on Asia where applicable and also covering wider digital currency-related news, aiming to provide a larger context around crypto, CBDC, and digital currency technology.
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- ICYMI: North Carolina bill proposed to ban state agencies from paying cyber-attack ransoms, responding to recent ransomware attack on fuel pipeline
- Cybersecurity: May 2021 saw a 168% year-on-year increase in the number of cyberattacks in Asia Pacific compared to May 2020
- FBI and Australian Cyber Security Centre warn of ongoing cyber-campaign targeting extensive array of sectors, employing affiliate hackers and ransomware-as-a-service
- ICYMI: Google’s Android 12 to feature Privacy Dashboard, allowing fine-tuning of app security and with indicators showing when apps access microphone and camera
- Securing Cyberspace: How we can protect against digital threats to a free and open Indo-Pacific’ webinar set for June 1st, from Canada’s Macdonald-Laurier Institute
- Download: The Weaponized Web – The National Security Implications of Data and Tech Policy Through the Lens of National Security (pdf)
- Available to download now: The Chainalysis 2021 Crypto Crime Report
- Download: Potential Threat Vectors to 5G Infrastructure, from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (pdf)
- Cybersecurity and AI: “The latest generation of neural networks are vulnerable to a new kind of attack that makes them use too much energy.”
- Australia: Gov’t to establish 3 ‘cyber hubs’ to provide cybersecurity services to small agencies, delivered via large agencies such as Defence and Home Affairs
- CSIS Reconnecting Asia Project identified 70 deals in 41 countries between Huawei and governments or state-owned enterprises for cloud infrastructure and e-gov’t services
- ICYMI: North Carolina bill proposed to ban state agencies from paying cyber-attack ransoms, responding to recent ransomware attack on fuel pipeline
- Download: The Weaponized Web – The National Security Implications of Data and Tech Policy Through the Lens of National Security (pdf)
- An overview of Taiwan’s cybersecurity challenges as cyber-attacks on the country’s tech sectors become more frequent and sophisticated
- Cybersecurity: May 2021 saw a 168% year-on-year increase in the number of cyberattacks in Asia Pacific compared to May 2020
- FBI and Australian Cyber Security Centre warn of ongoing cyber-campaign targeting extensive array of sectors, employing affiliate hackers and ransomware-as-a-service
- Securing Cyberspace: How we can protect against digital threats to a free and open Indo-Pacific’ webinar set for June 1st, from Canada’s Macdonald-Laurier Institute
- Japan: Major infrastructure firms to discontinue use of Chinese-made drones in favour of domestic firms, citing data security concerns
- Indian Institute of Tech in Madras researchers now field-testing BlockTrack, app-delivered and blockchain-based secure medical data and info exchange system
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