Cybersec & Datasec news
The cybersecurity news items listed below are cybersec, datasec and privacy-related news headlines that were reported by online news platforms across October 2020.
Headlines listed are linked and will take you directly to the cybersecurity news article that each headline was drawn from, connecting you with each cybersec news source, and the journalist and online news platform that an article was developed by.
Cybersecurity news headlines featured are not tied to a particular country, location or jurisdiction; the aim of the October 2020 cybersecurity news summary is to connect readers with global cybersec knowledge, datasec reference points, privacy research and simple food for thought on the many impacts that cybersecurity issues increasingly have.
- Download: US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s ransomware guide, covering prevention and responses (pdf)
- Automotive cybersecurity: “…average car contains up to 150 electronic control units and about 100M lines of software code. That number is projected to reach 300M lines of code by 2030…”
- Cybersecurity: A 3-page round-up of recent cybersec, datasec and privacy-related technology news headlines – linked and QR coded for online/offline reading
- Google launches Android Partner Vulnerability Initiative to improve patching of security issues specific to Android OEMs
- Cybersecurity: Researchers unveil techniques to chart how malicious hackers make use of open source offensive security tools in developing malware
- Cyber Security Brunei launches with responsibility for development of government policy on cybercrime and online security
- Download: Akamai state of the internet security report now available, ‘Loyalty for Sale – Retail and Hospitality Fraud’ (pdf)
- ICYMI: Google plans to launch VPN service for consumers, to be available with subscription plans for Google One cloud storage services
- Japan: At least 18 prefectures hit by extortion attempts demanding bitcoin
- ICYMI: Germany’s T-Mobile launches T-Mobile Ventures to fund 5G products and services across key areas of edge computing, security, industrial IoT, and future of work
- ICYMI: North Macedonia, Kosovo and Bulgaria sign on to US Clean Network initiative for 5G technologies
- Western Australia launches the country’s first whole-of-government Cyber Security Operations Centre to boost visibility of cyber threats to agency networks
- ICYMI: UK cybersecurity evaluation body last year found “critical, user-facing vulnerabilities” in Huawei fixed-broadband products caused by poor code and old OS
- ICYMI: Financial services firms including Visa and JPMorgan are preparing for a future where quantum computers could break some of the most widespread cryptography
- Vanuatu to gain Australian-backed Pacific Fusion Centre, hosting analysts from 14 Pacific nations and focusing on issues including maritime risks and disinformation
- India’s Tata Consultancy Services launches 10 new threat management centres across the globe to provide cybersecurity services to enterprise customers
- Myanmar: Cyberattacks strike the registration portal for the country’s COVID-19 QR pass system, exposing large-scale security flaws
- New Zealand: CERT NZ issues warning to citizens over increase in volume and sophistication of financially-motivated cyber-attacks in the last 6 months
- New Zealand: Privacy commissioner launches NotifyUs tool to aid NZ organizations determine whether a data breach should be reported
- Philippines: Military reportedly considering Japan partnership around cyber-defense and drone capability as part of force modernization program
- Cybersecurity Labelling Scheme launched by Cyber Security Agency of Singapore focusing on consumer smart devices in effort to improve IoT security
- Singapore: Safer Cyberspace Masterplan 2020 launched to boost cybersecurity for individual users, communities, enterprises and organisations
- The politics of internet security: Private industry and the future of the web, via Atlantic Council – also available to download
- Nokia selected for Belgium’s 5G networks, ousting Huawei – significant as Brussels is home to the NATO alliance and the European Union executive and parliament
- Philippines: Citizen registration commences for national ID system, with gov’t promoting electronic payments and financial services access for the unbanked
- Cyber Security Brunei launches with responsibility for development of government policy on cybercrime and online security
- UK Government finds ‘clear evidence of collusion’ between Huawei and the ‘Chinese Communist Party apparatus’, likely bringing forward 5G rip-and-replace deadline
- Australia: CSIRO’s Data61 and Monash Blockchain Technology Centre unveil protocol claimed as secure against quantum computers while protecting user and transaction privacy
- ICYMI: Cybersecurity-focused Memorandum of Cooperation signed between India and Japan
- 5G: Sweden bans Huawei and ZTE telecoms equipment from upcoming 5G networks, following advice from the country’s armed forces and security service
- ICYMI: German government avoids outright Huawei ban, but sets IT law bar on ‘high-risk’ vendors at a level that makes participation unlikely
- Taobao Taiwan to close e-commerce site by year-end following Investment Commission identification of control by China’s Alibaba Group
- Cybersecurity: Researchers unveil techniques to chart how malicious hackers make use of open source offensive security tools in developing malware
- Tech Means Business podcast: Data access and privacy as human rights
- Download: A risk profile of Ant Technology Group as it approaches what may be world’s largest IPO
- Download: Designing Alternatives to China’s Repressive Surveillance State, a policy brief on actions to combat surveillance systems that threaten basic human rights
- Critical technologies and the Indo-Pacific: A new India-Australia partnership – available to download now
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