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Do concerns about security issues deter people from shopping online? Not according to a report from software security provider NTT Application Security. For its new report titled "The State of Secure Online Holiday Shopping," NTT surveyed 1,057 US consumers 18 and older who buy personal items online.
In this interview with Help Net Security, Mike Hendrickson, VP of Technology & Developer Solutions at educational technology company Skillsoft, talks about the effect these last few years have had on online cybersecurity learning and training, and the trends. What trends in online cybersecurity training have you been seeing in the last year or so?
Artificial Intelligence-powered remote proctoring tools are the solution for the cybersecurity industry and certification providers, especially those that examine independent IT security professionals. Is offering an online proctoring pilot test for cybersecurity certifications.
Australia's Attorney-General has submitted the first draft of a new Online Privacy Bill that contains striking reforms over existing privacy laws. The goal of the new bill is to modernize the legislative context that underpins online data protection and security and make new laws tight enough to enforce data handling practices by Internet entities.
Thus, the controversial Online Harms Bill will be rushed into law, quite possibly strengthened by new classes of offence and bans on anonymity. The Online Harms Bill has been floating around in some form or another for ages, with its inherent contradictions of supporting free speech and technological innovations.
The UK's largest retailer, supermarket titan Tesco, has restored its online operations after an attack hack left its customers unable to order, amend, or cancel deliveries for two days. A Tesco statement acknowledges disruption to the giant's grocery website and app, claiming "An attempt was made to interfere with our systems, which has caused problems with the search function on the site."
Sadly, a lot of the cryptocurrency news that we write about on Naked Security involves cybercriminals getting mixed up in things, often with depressing results. Well, we're delighted to bring you much happier news today of a cryptocurrency "Venture" with a lighter side, this time under the "Leadership" of a certain Mr. Goxx.
"Understanding consumer online security behavior trends is crucial for strengthening cybersecurity across society at large," said Bogdan Botezatu, director, threat research and reporting at Bitdefender. The report, based on a survey that polled more than 10,000 consumer internet users across 11 countries, examines the use of popular online platforms and services, personal cybersecurity practices, level of exposure to threats and more.
Epic Games now requires users to install Epic Online Services to properly use the Launcher. When users launch the Epic Games Launcher, they are greeted with a message stating, "Epic Online Services installation is required - you will not receive any Launcher updates until Epic Online Services is installed. Please see the settings menu."
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are starting to come back online after a BGP routing issue caused an over five-hour worldwide outage. As explained by Giorgio Bonfiglio, a Principal TAM at Amazon AWS, various Facebook routing prefixes had suddenly disappeared from the Internet's BGP routing tables, effectively making it impossible to connect to any services hosted on their IP addresses.