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Singtel has confirmed that another Australian business it owns, consulting unit Dialog, has fallen victim to a cyber burglary just weeks after the mammoth data leak at telco Optus was revealed. In a statement to the Singapore stock exchange, Singtel said intruders may have accessed company data "Potentially affecting fewer than 20 clients and 1,000 current Dialog employees as well as former employees."
In this Help Net Security video, David Samuelson, CEO at ISACA, talks about how enterprises approach digital trust. While nearly 98% of respondents to an ISACA survey say that digital trust is essential, and 63% say that digital trust is relevant to their jobs, only 12% of their organizations have a dedicated staff role for digital trust.
Remote work trends are here to stay while fewer employees than ever before are working full-time in traditional offices. IT needs to foster employee engagement and collaboration, while enabling dispersed teams, decentralized workplaces, and off-premises IT infrastructure.
The State of Digital Trust 2022 research report from ISACA found that nearly all respondents believe digital trust is important and 63% said that digital trust is relevant to their jobs. Those that measure digital trust have two areas in common-their board of directors has prioritized digital trust and they use a digital trust framework, according to the report.
Massive amounts of private data - including more than 300,000 biometric digital fingerprints used by five mobile banking apps - have been put at risk of theft due to hard-coded Amazon Web Services credentials, according to security researchers. In all, 77 percent of these apps contained valid AWS access tokens that allowed access to private AWS cloud services, the intelligence team noted in research published today.
Identity security has become a focal point in the cybersecurity industry, particularly as attackers become more and more adept at stealing credentials, conducting social engineering attacks, and exploiting poor identity security hygiene within large enterprises. Our main priority for SailPoint is to help them take advantage of the ripe opportunities in the current landscape and execute their goal to become the de facto identity platform for the modern enterprise.
In this interview for Help Net Security, Dan Tucker, Senior VP at Booz Allen, and leader of the firm's cloud and data engineering solutions for citizen services, talks about government digital transformation efforts, security challenges, and offers tips for CISOs. The ability for government to rapidly share data, derive insights, and convert that into decision-making continues to improve, but the expansion of data volume and transfer methods also increases our nation's digital attack surface.
They have the world's largest community of ethical hackers working to stay ahead of cybercriminals, going on the offense, searching for bugs and vulnerabilities before attackers do. Two years ago, Forbes reported that more than 700,000 ethical hackers were already part of the HackerOneBounty program.
Junior cloud Digital Ocean has revealed that some of its clients' email addresses were exposed to attackers, thanks to an attack on email marketing service Mailchimp. Digital Ocean on Monday revealed that on August 8th its engineering team noticed that Mailchimp had stopped delivering emails such as confirmations, password resets, email-based alerts for product health, and "Dozens of other transactional emails".
Digitalization and rising consumer expectations are having a major impact on the working conditions of the technology teams sustaining the digital operations that drive the modern economy, and burnout and attrition are on the rise, according to PagerDuty. Technical employees are more likely to leave certain kinds of teams based on after-hours expectations and inconsistent workloads.