Cybersecurity and datasec news headlines from December 2020
via Startup News Asia
Cybersec news headlines featured here were gathered from a wide range of online, free-to-read datasec and cybersec news platforms, each covering aspects of digital threat technology in December 2020.
Our cybersec news summary aims to provide a wide-focus look at cyber threat technologies across implementations and situations; covering a range from national security breaches to reports on malware, for instance.
Each cybersec news item listed is hyperlinked to the full news article or report behind it, providing you with 2 things; a quick-reference overview of December 2020’s cybersecurity news, and instant, one-click access to further detail on a particular cybersec, datasec or privacy related issue.
Cybersecurity news items here were drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily updates, delivered on social media and mobile app.
- ICYMI: Your boss is your biggest cyber-threat – Covid-19 State of Remote Work Survey 2.0 uncovers woeful security practices across senior management
- ICYMI: Firefox 83 introduces https-Only Mode, an ‘always on’ security measure held as a component of the future of the internet
- A look at 8 cybersecurity issues predicted to be key in 2021, from WatchGuard
- Election Cyber Threats in the Asia-Pacific Region: The top target? Public opinion.
- “The increase in online gaming attracted attention from attackers, resulting in nearly 77% of cyber attacks targeting online gaming and gambling industries in Q3 2020”
- Download: Q3 2020 Cybersecurity Threatscape report from Positive Technologies, available now
- ICYMI: IBM Security Homomorphic Encryption Services launches, maintaining data encryption whilst being processed by cloud applications or in 3rd-party environments
- “…adopting virtual health services is immensely attractive to hackers looking to take advantage of the disarray of starting a large-scale digital solution”
- ICYMI: 19 security, tech firms and non-profits including Microsoft and McAfee to form Ransomware Task Force
- ICYMI: Cyber Smart Pacific Campaign launched by Pacific Cyber Security Operational Network, its inaugural awareness raising campaign
- ICYMI: Russian gov’t outlines plans to amend laws to recognize cryptocurrency as property, giving bitcoin owners legal rights whilst taking step to address ‘shadow’ crypto schemes
- Download: Q3 2020 Cybersecurity Threatscape report from Positive Technologies, available now
- Available to download: The Veriff Fraud Report 2020, looking at digital theft in its many forms, from identity theft to deepfakes
- Facebook: “…against 2 separate groups of hackers – APT32 in Vietnam and a group based in Bangladesh – removing their ability to…abuse our platform, distribute malware and hack accounts…”
- Cybersecurity: A 3-page round-up of recent cybersec, datasec and privacy-related news – headlines linked to the original articles, and QR coded for offline reading from print
- Australia: Banks ordered to adopt proactive stance to cyber security, including hiring independent ‘red team’ hackers to deploy techniques to expose weaknesses
- US and Australia join for Cyber Training Capabilities Project Arrangement, bilateral international agreement enabling Australian Defence Force feedback to US Cyber Command
- Australia: Australian Strategic Policy Institute to host the Sydney Dialogue, a virtual summit for emerging, critical and cyber technologies
- ICYMI: Ledger hardware-based cryptocurrency wallet hackers dump over 270K customer email addresses online
- India: Reserve Bank launches digital payment security project to push regulated entities towards common control standards for channels like internet, mobile banking, card payments
- Indonesia: Government and parliament agree that victims should be able to sue platforms for violations in handling of personal information, including data leaks
- ICYMI: US gov’t signs Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act into law, codifying increased security for billions of IoT devices in homes and businesses
- Japan: A brief interview intro to Mihoko Matsubara, Chief Cybersecurity Strategist with NTT Corporation, via GovInsider
- Kazakh gov’t makes 3rd attempt to mandate installation of root certificate, and resultant surveillance capability, on citizen devices when accessing foreign web services
- Telecom Association of Thailand launches Thailand Telecom Computer Emergency Response Team as response coordination and information sharing body
- Australia: Consumer watchdog to take court action against Facebook and 2 subsidiaries over Onavo Protect VPN service due to misleading data privacy claims
- China: US lawmakers set to back $1.9BN technology swap-out fund, aiming to remove Huawei, ZTE and other designated national security risks from networks
- ICYMI: Maker of Brave web browser to launch news reader designed to protect user privacy, preventing tracking sites, articles and topics people view
- China: Yumi Granary home appliance startup makes $750K seed bet with smart rice bins, internet-connected storage units
- The geopolitics of artificial intelligence: “…the huge datasets held by governments, corporations and various data brokers have become a strategic asset”
- Malaysia: “The RMHTC…will be an accelerator for the Russian-Malaysian collaboration in entrepreneurship and education using Malaysia as a springboard into the rest of ASEAN.”
- China’s Huawei in advanced talks with Solomon Islands gov’t to build 200 broadband towers around the country, raising financing concerns and ability to cover cost
Other tech news from December 2020:
• Artificial intelligence news: December 2020
• Blockchain news: December 2020
• Cryptocurrency news: December 2020
