Medibank has opted to ignore demands for ransom payments for the recent data breach of about 9.7 million health data records. Criminals have published a fraction of the stolen data on the dark web, including those of high-profile politicians.
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Scott Ikeda is a technology futurist and writer for more than 15 years. He travels extensively throughout Asia and writes about the impact of technology on the communities he visits. Over the last 5 years, Scott has grown increasingly focused on the future landscape of big data, surveillance, cybersecurity and the right to privacy.
Microsoft/Marsh survey examines whether Asia’s confidence in its cyber resilience stems from truly strong defensive postures, or a misunderstanding of the threat landscape.
The WeChat privacy questions stem from numerous users posting logins from unknown devices to their accounts, sometimes at very late and odd hours. Users are speculating about Chinese law enforcement inspecting accounts using some sort of a backdoor.
The 2022 ICS Cybersecurity Report sees the majority of organizations recognizing ICS threats as being very serious; 22% ranked them as "critical" and 41% ranked them as "high" priority, representing a slow but steady increase over the past several years.
From 2017 to 2020 the edtech company experienced four serious data breaches, and the FTC finds that this was not simply a run of bad luck but rather an endemic lack of concern for cybersecurity.
The White House summit brought together leaders from over 30 countries to discuss a global response to the threat of ransomware attacks. Event concluded with a broad variety of proposals including increased private sector engagement.
Dropbox says that the security breach did not involve the contents of any customer accounts. The attackers were instead focused on company GitHub repositories, raiding 130 of them for code and tools.
The privacy policy now makes clear that TikTok user data is transferred to a number of third countries for "important functions," China among them. TikTok says it has SCCs in place that cover the data transfers.
Privacy awareness is now more common than not, with 60% of consumers reporting that they are concerned. While consumers are very much aware of how companies track their online behavior at this point, 34% say that they feel "overwhelmed" in trying to manage it.
The cybersecurity workforce has grown by a little over 11% since last year, filling 464,000 more positions, but the workforce gap has more than doubled during that time due to increased demand.
