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theguardian | August 26, 2020

New Zealand’s stock market has been interrupted by an apparent overseas cyber attack for the second day running. The Wellington-based NZX exchange went offline at 11.24am on Wednesday and although some connectivity was restored for investors, some trading was halted. The NZX said it had experienced “network connectivity issues” and that the NZX main board, NZX debt market and Fonterra shareholders market were placed on halt. However it then announced that those areas would resu...

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iENSO | March 09, 2021

iENSO, a leading provider of embedded vision systems, and Firedome, an end-to-end cybersecurity provider for IoT brands and CES Innovation Award winner, announced today a partnership to protect connected devices with embedded vision. The current explosive growth in connected embedded vision devices as well as the increasing demand for vision data processing have given a new platform to hackers and cyberattacks, compromising data security and user privacy. Firedome and iENSO's ...

Infosecurity | February 19, 2020

British Transport Police have reported an alarming increase in the number of women being sent sexually explicit images by strangers while traveling via train. In 2018, 34 cases of cyber-flashing offenses were reported to British Transport Police. In 2019, the number of recorded cases rose to 66, almost doubling over a one-year period. Cyber-flashing occurs when a sexual predator sends an unsolicited pornographic image or video to a stranger via the iPhone file-sharing function AirDrop.&nbs...

globenewswire | August 24, 2020

The global cyber security market value is expected to reach USD 281.74 billion by 2027, from its current standing at USD 112.01 billion. According to the report by Fortune Business Insights, titled “Cyber Security Market Size, Share & Industry Analysis, By Solution (Network Security, Cloud Application Security, End-point Security, Secure Web Gateway, Internet Security and Others), By Deployment Type (Cloud and On Premise), By Enterprise Size (Small & Medium Enterprise and Large Ent...