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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.
A DNA diagnostics company will pay $400,000 and tighten its security in the wake of a 2021 attack where criminals broke into its network and swiped personal data on over two million people from a nine-year-old "Legacy" database the company forgot it had. The genetic testing firm, DNA Diagnostics Center reached a settlement deal with states' attorneys general in Ohio and Pennsylvania last week, after the social security numbers of 45,000 residents of the two states was exposed, with each of the states getting $200k. DDC offers paternity testing, immigration testing, veterinary DNA testing and forensic testing.
The FBI has confirmed what cybersecurity researchers have been saying for months: the North Korean-sponsored Lazarus Group was behind the theft last year of $100 million in crypto assets from blockchain startup Harmony. In its January 23 statement on the matter, the FBI said the attack on Harmony was part of a North Korean malware campaign named "TraderTraitor."
China's government has declared the nation's information security industry needs to grow - fast. A document with the catchy title of "Guiding Opinions of Sixteen Departments Including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Promoting the Development of the Data Security Industry" was issued last week, setting out an ambitious program to scale the industry at 30 percent compound annual growth rate, so it reaches ¥15 billion of annual revenue by 2025.
Google is calling EU cybersecurity foundersGoogle announced that the Google for Startups Growth Academy: Cybersecurity program now accepts applications from EU companies. Rackspace ransomware attack was executed by using previously unknown security exploitThe MS Exchange exploit chain recently revealed by Crowdstrike researchers is how the Play ransomware gang breached the Rackspace Hosted Exchange email environment, the company confirmed last week.