Reports indicate the attacks include the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. About 200 companies in Japans aerospace industry have suffered a cyber-attack this week. According to multiple media reports, the attacks include the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and were thought to be the “actions of a Chinese man”, who is a…
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Driven by increased cloud adoption, massive WFH migration, and transformation projects. Spending on security hardware, services, and software in APAC is expected to reach US $23.1 billion in 2021 – an increase of 12.6 per cent over the previous year. IDC expects investment on security related products and services to…
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Navigating complex obstacles to keep rising attacks from turning into more breaches. CISOs are face a rising ‘security debt’ to secure their organizations against an increasing volume of attacks by well-armed criminals. Despite going up against a criminal industry that enjoys advantages when it comes to speed and shared weaponry,…
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Tech giant’s conduct was found to be liable to mislead the public. Australia’s Federal Court has found that Google LLC and Google Australia Pty Ltd (together, Google) misled consumers about personal location data collected through Android mobile devices between January 2017 and December 2018, in a world-first enforcement action brought…
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Unified approach needed to mitigate growing risks. The aviation industry needs to unify its approach to prevent cybersecurity shocks, according to a re recently released report by the World Economic Forum. The increased level of interdependencies can lead to systemic risks and cascading effects as airlines, airports and aircraft manufacturing…
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CIO Tech Asia spoke with Ryan Jones director of sales APAC at Cofense. Tell us why phishing is the number one method in which a threat actor can gain access to a company’s network? RJ: It’s pretty simple, really. Phishing remains the number one way a threat actor can gain…
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COVID-19 accelerated period of digitisation and improved cybersecurity, but systemic security issues persist. Despite cyberattacks increasing, cybersecurity budgets have remained stagnant and executive teams continue to underestimate the level of damage threats can do to organisations. Nearly 70 percent of Asia Pacific organisations suffered a data breach in 2020, an increase…
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Abigail Bradshaw head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre talks about how the cyber security defensive mission on a standing and given it prominence. In just the last four months Australia has dealt with significant malicious cyber activity associated with SolarWinds, the Acellion File Transfer compromise, and recently the Microsoft Exchange server vulnerabilities, as…
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Changes to remote working practices made during lockdown adversely affected their cybersecurity. Mobile device and cloud-based apps have become ubiquitous due to individuals and organisations battling to maintain productivity, best practices for security have not kept pace with IT teams still treating mobile security separately to overall enterprise security practices,…
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Combination of Cofense’s phishing intelligence wtih Cyberfish’s AI-based technology . Phishing defence firm, Cofence has acquired Cyberfish, the provider of next-generation phishing protection powered by Computer Vision and Machine Learning (ML) technology. By integrating innovative machine learning capabilities from Cyberfish with Cofense’s detection and response technology, Cofense will be able…
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