The new cyber defense bill would have the Department of Defense engage in both increased training of Taiwan’s own personnel and a more active role in directly disrupting Chinese cyber attacks.
National Computer Virus Emergency Response Centre (CVERC), in partnership with Chinese security firm 360, are accusing the CIA of deploying cyber weapons to promote “color revolutions” that aim for government regime change.
A string of data breaches for T-Mobile that now dates back several years seems to be continuing without end, as the company has experienced two already in 2023. Those impacted in the latest breach are dealing with the loss of some very sensitive information.
Google indicated that it continues to see no shortage of bad apps, as it recently reported knocking some 1.43 million off the Google Play Store in the past year (along with about 173,000 developers that violated the rules of the road).
The cyber capabilities that China is reportedly developing for space are a step beyond the current deck of options. They involve directly intercepting and fabricating the signals that satellites use to communicate.
Report suggests a never before seen case of one supply chain attack being directly leveraged into another, as the 3CX breach has been traced back to a compromised trading software.
The security-by-design guidance shows that governments are increasingly expecting manufacturers and developers to have their products reasonably locked down when they ship, and to be configured for updates that allow new vulnerabilities to be addressed.
Cyber crime groups of all sizes are putting around 80% of their operating expenses toward paying their workforce. The situation reflects an increasing adoption of a professional corporate-modeled structure among cyber crime groups.
Attackers would have been able to change the top Bing search results to whatever they like for any particular keyword or phrase that users might search. This could have been used to unwittingly redirect searchers to attack sites.
While ChatGPT may be a productivity enhancer, organizations need to carefully consider the situations in which it is used. Samsung has learned this lesson the hard way as employees unwittingly fed sensitive data into its training model while doing code reviews and preparing internal presentations.