Apple’s CEO is calling for better data privacy regulations as Elon Musk joins Brian Acton in supporting the #DeleteFacebook campaign. The storm around Facebook’s controversial data sharing with Cambridge Analytica continued at the weekend despite efforts by the social networking firm’s chief to contain the fallout. After a week of growing criticism of Facebook’s actions and the response by company leaders, CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued further apologies in the press in the U...
COMPUTERWEEKLY
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From WannaCry to NotPetya, 2017 brought with it a new wave of cyber-threats, with machine-speed attacks dominating the headlines on a regular basis. But while a lot of the commentary in the aftermath of ransomware attacks was either concerned with finding out who was behind the attacks, or lamenting our failure to patch, a bigger issue also emerged. Security teams struggle to react quickly enough in the face of automated attacks. Sadly, as defenders, we struggle to keep pace with the attackers....
SECURITY WEEK
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WASHINGTON — In the months before Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s arrival in Beijing on Monday, the Obama administration quietly held an extraordinary briefing for the Chinese military leadership on a subject officials have rarely discussed in public: the Pentagon’s emerging doctrine for defending against cyberattacks against the United States — and for using its cybertechnology against adversaries, including the Chinese....
NYTIMES
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Retailers in North America and EMEA take 197 days on average to detect advanced attacks on their networks – nearly twice as long as their financial services counterparts, according to new research from the Ponemon Institute....
INFOSECURITY MAGAZINE
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US President Donald Trump's cybersecurity executive order, signed on Thursday after a series of delays, will make federal agency heads accountable for protecting their networks. On the other side of the fence, computer security product makers have broadly welcomed the policy, which also calls on government and industry to reduce the threat from automated attacks on the internet....
THE REGISTER
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The nation’s critical infrastructure experienced a 20 percent increase in cyber incidents in the fiscal year 2015, said government experts.According to an end-of-year report by the Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT), investigators responded to 295 reported incidents involving critical infrastructure in the U.S., compared to 245 in the previous year....
TRIPWIRE
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