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US President Joe Biden staged a cyber security summit at the White House, and it's produced quick results in the form of big tech making vague promises about stuff they think will improve the nation's security. The premise of the event was Biden's belief that America can't go on being hurt by ransomware, state-backed disinformation naughtiness, and other forms of infosec-driven attacks, but can only sort it out with the help of private enterprise because the government can't address security alone.

Survey by EY finds that board members are interested in spending more money on technology and data analytics for risk management. TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke with Tonny Dekker, global enterprise risk consulting leader at EY, about how boards feel about investing in technology for risk management.

Tom Merritt tells us his top five annoyances in tech and why they are frustrating. I did an informal poll of my friends in tech to find out what they find most annoying about tech these days.

The United Nations has called for a moratorium on the sale of "Life threatening" surveillance technology and singled out the NSO Group and Israel for criticism. The UN announcement then zeroes in on NSO Group, calling on it to "Disclose whether or not it ever conducted any meaningful human rights due diligence in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and publish fully the findings of any internal probes it may have undertaken on this issue".

A California-based IT consultancy has sued Huawei and its subsidiary in Pakistan alleging the Chinese telecom firm stole its trade secrets and failed to honor a contract to develop technology for Pakistani authorities. The complaint [PDF], filed on Wednesday in the US District Court in Santa Ana, California, describes how Business Efficiency Solutions, LLC, began working with Huawei Technologies in 2016 to overhaul the IT systems available to the Punjab Police Integrated Command, Control and Communication Center of Lahore, capital of the Punjab province of Pakistan.

" Timezone curiosities - when modular arithmetic gets weird. Microsoft researcher found Apple 0-day in March, didn't report it.

The United States' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has announced the "Standup" of a body called the "Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative" that it hopes will spark ideas for new and improved national responses against electronic threats. The aim of the effort is to get the private sector working alongside government agencies, so they can develop and implement better cyber security plans than are currently in operation.

Head of the U.S. government's cybersecurity agency Jen Easterly introduced herself to the hacking community Thursday with a pledge to pursue transparent data sharing with the private sector and a call for "An ambitious national effort" to solve the cybersecurity skills shortage. In a carefully crafted video keynote at the annual Black Hat conference, the CISA director announced a new Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative to bring together federal agencies with big-tech players to manage the barrage of ransomware and supply chain attacks.

US cybersecurity officials on Thursday said Amazon, Google and Microsoft have enlisted to help them fight ransomware and defend cloud computing systems from hackers. The tech giants are among firms signed on to be part of a Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative intended to combine government and private skills and resources to fight hackers, according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Second quarter blocked DDoS attack volumes were up more than 40% compared to the same period in 2020, a Radware report reveals. The report provides an overview of DDoS attack trends by industry, as well as across applications and attack types.