The cybersecurity news headlines here were drawn from online news coverage of cybersec, datasec and cybercrime related issues in September 2020, focusing on Asia where possible.
Each cybersecurity news headline featured is linked to the full news article behind that headline, providing a quick-reference overview of September 2020’s cybersec news whilst also letting you quickly scan and find the cybersecurity news items you find most interesting.
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- Download: The INTERPOL ASEAN Cyberthreat Assessment 2020 – Key Insights From The ASEAN Cybercrime Operations Desk (pdf)
- Download: The 2020 State Of Crypto Crime – darknet markets, exchange hacks, money laundering and more, from Chainalysis (pdf)
- Cybersecurity: Microsoft Security Endpoint Threat Summary 2019 – an overview, updated in 2020 and available to download (pdf)
- Cybersecurity: A round-up of recent cybersecurity and datasec news, focusing on Asia and touching on the wider world, gathered across the past month
- New malware, Anubis, emerges online with ability to steal cryptocurrency wallet IDs, system info, credit card information and other data
- Cybersecurity & Datasec: A 3-page collection of recent cybersec, infosec and privacy-related news headlines, drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily updates
- Download: Cybersecurity threatscape Q2 2020, from Positive Technologies
- ICYMI: Facebook patches critical Instagram vulnerability that allowed remote code execution and hijack of smartphone cameras, microphones and more
- Cybersecurity: “In 2019, we blocked over 13 billion malicious and suspicious mails…” from the Microsoft Digital Defense Report, available to download now
- Who among us will emerge looking halfway human, let alone ‘good’, when all of the data leaks – every text, email, voice memo?
- ICYMI: Russian government is working on updating technology laws to ban modern internet protocols in order to allow surveillance and censorship
- Thailand: Gov’t earmarks $60M for cybersecurity safeguard systems at state-run hospitals following ransomware attacks
- Australia: Gov’t of New South Wales to make 3-year investment of $180M to broaden scope of Cyber Security NSW, quadrupling cybersecurity team size
- Australia: Cyber-attacks hit Australians nearly every 10 minutes, costing the nation $29BN a year, finds Australian Cyber Security Centre report
- Australia: Service NSW hack exposed 738GB of data, encompassing 3.8M documents and 186K customer details
- An Opportunity for Strengthening U.S.-Australian Cyber Cooperation’ via Lawfare
- Australia: ‘Clean pipes’ – should internet service providers deliver a more secure internet when the majority of users don’t have the skills or resources to defend themselves?
- Australia: NAB launches country’s first bug bounty program for banking in partnership with Bugcrowd, crowdsourced security company
- ICYMI: US Commerce Department to prohibit WeChat and TikTok transactions from Sunday 20th, citing data protection and national security concerns
- Indonesia: A brief look at the National Cyber and Encryption Agency, focused on tackling increasing cyber-threats – over 88M attacks in first four months of 2020 alone
- Philippines: The government’s National Cybersecurity Plan 2022 (pdf)
- Singapore: Customer data breach data at ShopBack e-commerce cashback platform being investigated by Personal Data Protection Commission
- Four myths about the cloud – the geopolitics of cloud computing
- South Korea: Hanwha Systems defense contractor to join state project aiming at global technology competitiveness in quantum cryptography communication
- Download: Digital Peace Now Society’s International Cyberwarfare Awareness Report, gathered from the US, India, South Africa, Malaysia, Mexico and France
- Ensuring a trusted 5G ecosystem of vendors and technology’, a report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
- 5G: “Chinese strategic competition is about much more…If people think that by banning Huawei, networks have been made safe – that’s not true…”
- Japan: A dive into the country’s approach to 5G systems, vendors and supply chains and how this differs from the current US approach
- Philippines: Dito Telecommunity Corp telco startup partners US cybersecurity firm Fortinet over concerns around China Telecom investment
- Singapore: KuCoin digital asset exchange funds compromised in security breach with estimated value of over $150M
- UN Norms of Responsible State Behaviour in Cyberspace released, resources and downloads for use by governments, academia, civil society and industry
- Download: The INTERPOL ASEAN Cyberthreat Assessment 2020 – Key Insights From The ASEAN Cybercrime Operations Desk (pdf)
- Cybersecurity: “Huawei’s Russian research and development team said it will join the development of [the] Harmony operating system and apps based on it.”
- India: Government bans 118 China-connected mobile apps including PUBG Mobile, Alipay and Baidu, citing concerns over “stealing and…transmitting users’ data”
- ICYMI: Italian gov’t reportedly to discuss preventing China’s Huawei from playing a key role in building the nation’s 5G network
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