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In late September 2021, staff at Taiwanese threat intelligence company TeamT5 noticed something very nasty: a fake news report accusing it of conducting phishing attacks against Japan's government and local tech companies. "We can't keep off the internet, even when on holiday. The attackers weren't counting on that," threat intelligence analyst Che-Cheng Chang told The Reg when we dropped in to TeamT5's Taipei offices last week during the Computex conference.
Veza has unveiled Veza for SaaS Apps, a solution to deliver access security and governance across SaaS applications, including Salesforce, JIRA, Coupa, Netsuite, GitHub, Gitlab, Slack, and Bitbucket. The solution allows customers to automate access reviews, find and fix privilege access violations, trim privilege sprawl, and prevent SaaS misconfigurations.
Abnormal Security expands its platform and launches new products. Abnormal Security launched three new products focused on expanding security detection for Slack, Microsoft Teams and Zoom.
In the complex and fast-moving world of cybersecurity-meets-regulations, working with third parties requires diligent third-party risk management oversight to monitor data management and processes. Improving InfoSec risk management can provide insights into how data is handled, the security safeguards in place to protect that data, potential security weaknesses, and better adherence to the multitude of data, security, and privacy regulations.
Australia's Westpac bank re-wrote its job ads for infosec roles after finding the language it used deterred female candidates. The land down under, like most other lands, has a shortage of cyber security professionals.
Appdome's ThreatScope Mobile XDR gathers thousands of threat signals from mobile app security, hacking, fraud, malware, cheat and bot attacks from inside each of 100M deployed mobile apps and translates that data into brand relevant views that cyber, fraud and business teams can use to evaluate and respond to mobile threats and attacks in real time. The module further strengthens XSIAM's ability to consolidate multiple security operations capabilities into a unified, AI-driven security operations center platform.
Given the importance of the Treasury department's function to Britain, Reg readers might expect the Head of Cyber Security vacancy currently being advertised would come with a salary that reflects its criticality. "We're looking for a Head of Cyber Security to join the team and provide advice to seniors on cyber risks across our services and systems," the posting reads.
India's rules requiring local organizations to report infosec incidents within six hours of detection have been observed by a mere 15 entities/. Analysts quickly pointed out that requiring organizations to report an incident just six hours after detecting it would likely lead to poor-quality reports being filed.
Russian president Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have set themselves the goal of dominating the world of information technology. The rest of the world may never recognize it, as appetite to acquire Russian and Chinese tech outside the two nations and their small circle of allies is not vast.
The platform provides real, actionable intelligence to support various security teams across an organization in their efforts to uncover threats and proactively prevent digital crimes. SecuriThings Managed Service Platform secures physical security devices.