Cybersec headlines in June
June 2021’s cybersecurity & datasec news, reports & downloads
The June 20221 cybersec news summary gathers items across datasec, information security and privacy, including blockchain tech in survey anonymity, info security concerns with undersea cables, the European Union’s digital wallet plans, Japan’s national cybersec strategy, Amazon’s shared device internet access and more.
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- Download: The Future of Cybersecurity in Asia Pacific and Japan, March 2021 edition (pdf)
- Cryptocurrency attack methods to be aware of in 2021, focusing on the 4 most talked-about methods on cybercrime forums
- Available to download: Cyber Security Outlook In South East Asian Region From CyberSecurity Malaysia’s Perspective
- “In short, EVs will increasingly become data collection and storage platforms. And this will bring to the forefront a new operational challenge for auto manufacturers…”
- Cybersecurity: “… the attackers are not only interested in cold data, but also what is happening on target’s personal computer at any moment, resulting in live espionage…”
- Asia Pacific Public Sector Cyber Security Executive Council launches led by Microsoft, aiming to boost public-private cybersec partnerships and share threat intelligence
- ICYMI: The ASEAN Cyber Security Development Project from INTERPOL, and the National Cybercrime Strategy Guidebook developed for participant nations
- ICYMI: European Commission announces plans for Joint Cyber Unit to tackle large scale cyber-attacks, a dedicated team of multi-national experts to be rapidly deployed
- “…lack of global safeguards, low-cost and low-risk with potentially high yield makes cybercrime a natural choice for North Korean regime…a new model of state-sponsored cybercrime”
- ICYMI: On June 8th, Amazon will automatically enrol devices including Alexa in Amazon Sidewalk, wireless mesh service sharing internet bandwidth with neighbors
- Live Facial Recognition: “We should be able to take our children to a leisure complex, visit a shopping centre or tour a city to see the sights without having our biometric data collected and analysed…”
- Deepfake maps: “Researchers applied AI techniques to make portions of Seattle look more like Beijing. Such imagery could mislead governments or spread misinformation…”
- Download: Cryptocurrency Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Report, via CipherTrace
- Singapore: ScamShield launches, AI-powered app to identify, filter and block scam messages with 95% accuracy, aiming to combat 15K scams reported last year alone
- Download: Japan’s Cybersecurity Strategy, From The Olympics To The Indo-Pacific (pdf)
- Australia: Cyber war specialist warns recent Fastly outage that brought down global news sites is timely reminder of country’s dependence on offshore IT infrastructure
- ICYMI: On June 8th, Amazon will automatically enrol devices including Alexa in Amazon Sidewalk, wireless mesh service sharing internet bandwidth with neighbors
- Indonesia: Cyber and Crypto Agency inks MOU with Kaspersky cybersecurity company around shared goal of beefing up the country’s cybersecurity capabilities
- Japan: Police Agency to set up new bureau and team dedicated to cybercrime responses, including to state-sponsored attacks from China, North Korea and Russia
- North Korean hacking group believed to have breached security of South Korea nuclear research institute, potentially South Korea’s most significant security breach
- Malaysian gov’t proposes that ASEAN member countries create regional cyber defence network centre, the ASEAN Cyber Defence Network, to share knowledge and expertise
- “Zero-knowledge proofs will redefine the privacy guarantees that web services offer…blockchains will enable users to control their financial assets and personal data, without requiring third parties…”
- Exporting Chinese surveillance: the security risks of smart cities, from The Financial Times
- TikTok changed the shape of some people’s faces without approval, applying or testing what appeared to be a beauty filter – and which they couldn’t turn off
- China: Taobao, e-commerce giant owned by Alibaba, hit by data leak exposing 1.1BN items of user data including IDs and phone numbers
- European Union planning to develop digital wallet for use across the 27-member bloc, storing user documents, payment details and more for gov’t service access
- Google finally rolls out long-awaited end-to-end encryption for Messages app in Android, tho only for one-to-one conversations
- NATO aiming for Defence Innovation Accelerator of the North Atlantic to be up and running by 2023 to speed trans-Atlantic cooperation on critical technologies
- The ASEAN Cyber Security Development Project from INTERPOL, and the National Cybercrime Strategy Guidebook developed for participant nations
- Another layer in deepfake technology – cloning an individual’s voice
- Japan: Government agencies reportedly suffered data breaches including hacker access to 76K email addresses originating from hack of 3rd-party info sharing tool
- China: Huawei launches ‘Global Cyber Security and Privacy Protection Transparency Centre’ in Dongguan
- Mapping China’s Tech Giants: Mapping overseas expansion of 27 key tech firms, featuring 3800+ entries, spanning up to 15 categories and providing 38000+ data points
- India: An intro to BlockSurvey, a decentralised blockchain-powered data collection platform focusing on anonymity and security of user information
- South Korea: Gov’t revokes authorizations for 224 Hikvision products over faked test reports, forcing Hikvision to withdraw products for at least one year
- ICYMI: Stripe payments giant launches Stripe Identity, artificial intelligence and ML tech ID tool intended to securely verify identities of users from more than 30 countries
- “First came facial recognition. Now, an early form of lip-reading AI is being deployed in hospitals, power plants, public transportation, and more.”
- ICYMI: Senegal hopes to boost digital sovereignty by moving all gov’t data and platforms from o’seas servers to a national data centre supplied by Huawei, financed by China
- ICYI: Swedish court system upholds ban on Huawei equipment in the country’s 5G systems, citing security service concerns
- China: Facetech Holdings gains funding to further develop tech using AI and neural networks to identify faces obscured by protective equipment or other coverings
- “Even now, satellite-borne internet traffic is dwarfed by subsea cables, which carry an estimated 95% of all traffic between continents and islands.”
- China’s TikTok privacy policy update allows future collection of new types of biometric data including ‘faceprints and voiceprints’
- China: Ant Group in talks with state-owned enterprises to create credit-scoring firm, putting 1BN citizens’ data under regulator purview – a move towards ‘social credit’?
- China: Military tech suppliers CETC and Potevio state-owned enterprise to merge, forming country’s 3rd-largest info-tech company after Huawei and Lenovo
- ICYMI: Under new legislation, police in Ireland will have the power to compel people to provide passwords for electronic devices when carrying out a search warrant
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