June 2020 cybersecurity news summary from Startup News Asia
The links below provide a broad, brief overview of cybersecurity news reported in June 2020, focusing where possible on Asia-Pacific.
Items reported in June 2020 touched on Huawei, surveillance capitalism, cybersecurity standards, Intel security-focused chip development and more.
Each headline links to the original article it was pulled from; each article was also posted to Startup News Asia’s news feeds on social media and to the Startup News Asia app.
- Cybersecurity: Overview of Cycldek, Chinese hacking group focused on SEA gov’t and large organisations, particularly Vietnam’s, using methods including ‘air gap’ hacks via USB
- Cybersecurity: A brief video overview of cybersec, datasec and privacy-related headlines from the month past, via Startup News Asia
- The biggest threat to data security in your organisation? C-suite execs pressuring IT teams to make security exceptions for them.
- Google commences slow roll-out of Voice Match feature for Assistant, enabling identification of users to authenticate purchases using the sound of their voice
- Download: The Past, Present, and Future of Russia’s Cyber Strategy and Forces, from the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (pdf)
- Cybersecurity: An overview of the Advanced Persistent Threat Trends Report Q1 2020 from Kaspersky, touching on China, Russia, Korea, the Middle East and SE Asia
- ICYMI: US Gov’t Cyberspace Solarium Commission publishes white paper, ‘Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic’ covering disinformation, IoT, social media and beyond
- ICYMI: IBM Security’s X-Force Threat Intelligence Index – a report and interactive map aiming to provide a comprehensive view of threat intelligence trends from the past year
- ICYMI: Intel soon to build anti-malware defenses directly into CPUs, changing the way processors execute instructions from applications
- ICYMI: Hacker group targeting crypto-exchanges, mainly US and Japan, believed to have stolen over $200M in two years
- Australia: Taskforce formed by NSW gov’t, AustCyber and Standards Australia, aiming to create consistent, internationally harmonised cybersecurity standards
- Australia: Government unveils $1.35BN plan to boost cybersecurity capabilities over 10 years, including new team of 500 cybersec-focused specialists
- Australia: Footage from compromised security cameras found to be streamed on Russia-based website
- Australia should take the UK’s lead and ditch the centralised [COVIDSafe app] model for digital contact tracing in favour of the Google and Apple option
- ICYMI: UK proposes a D10 grouping of democratic partners, including G7 nations, Australia, South Korea and India, to focus on 5G and critical supply chains
- Thailand: Stock Exchange and Securities and Exchange Commission ink MOU to launch Prof Link platform, holding details for over 80K capital markets professionals
- A look at TikTok short-form video app, and the data privacy problems it is believed to represent
- Radical Indifference: How Surveillance Capitalism Conquered Our Lives’ – an interview with Shoshana Zuboff
- ICYMI: Coaltition for Critical Technology’s 1500+ members list grave concerns around ‘Neural Network Model to Predict Criminality Using Image Processing’ software
- Canada’s major telcos, Bell and Telus, lock China’s Huawei out of 5G build, instead choosing Ericsson and Nokia, another step in excision from Five Eyes nation presence
- Australia: GovPass, whole-of-government way to verify identity across government and private sector services, looking into monetization to mitigate costs
- A broad round-up of cybersecurity, datasec and cybercrime-related news from May 2020
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