June 2021 | International Law Alerts | Cybersecurity

 

Global security company Kaspersky today announces that it has expanded its popular SafeBoard internships program, to include multiple roles across Europe and the Asia Pacific, with Singapore chosen to pilot this program in the region.

If you’re a frequent flyer, you might want to check whether you’re one of those who could have been targeted by what’s been described as a “massive, highly sophisticated cyber attack” in the first quarter of this year.

Dongguan, China — Huawei opened its largest Global Cyber Security and Privacy Protection Transparency Center in Dongguan, China on Thursday, with representatives from GSMA, SUSE, the British Standards Institution, and regulators from the UAE and Indonesia speaking at the opening ceremony.

Global cybersecurity company Kaspersky and Badan Siber dan Sandi Negara, the Cyber and Crypto Agency of Indonesia, recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in line with their shared goal of beefing up the cybersecurity capability of the country.

The UN Security Council on Tuesday will hold its first formal public meeting on cybersecurity, addressing the growing threat of hacks to countries’ key infrastructure, an issue Joe Biden recently raised with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

The Philippine National Police Women and Children Protection Center rescued five teenagers, four of them minors, and arrested two suspects during separate entrapment and rescue operations against online sexual exploitation in Mandaluyong City

The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) on Thursday said it was not behind the alleged cyberattack on some news sites

It is “unfair” to link government offices to cyberattacks on the websites of two alternative news organizations and a human rights group, Malacañang said Thursday.

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made this remark after a Swedish digital forensics group claimed that the cyberattacks were traced to the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the Philippine Army.

APNIC, the internet address registry for the Asia-Pacific region, has revealed that a “configuration error” meant hashed administrator passwords were publicly accessible for three months.

The oversight publicly exposed a dump file of APNIC’s WHOIS SQL database containing hashes of passwords used to authenticate database object changes, “corporate contact details”, and password hashes and contact details related to internal Incident Response Teams (IRTs), said APNIC.

Sweden-based digital forensics nonprofit Qurium Media, recently released a report about recent distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on alternative media outlets Bulatlat and Altermidya, as well as human rights group Karapatan.

A database owned by US-based web host DreamHost was found unsecured and publicly accessible, leaving 814,709,344 records in total exposed, cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler disclosed in a post on Website Planet, a site for web developers, on Thursday, June 24.

Microsoft said on Friday, June 25, an attacker had won access to one of its customer service agents – and that agent’s related support tools – then used information from that to launch hacking attempts against customers.

Some 700 million LinkedIn records are currently up for sale on a hacking forum with the uploader, TomLiner, also posting a sample of one million records to prove the claim.

Cybercrime is globally disruptive and economically damaging, causing trillions of dollars in financial losses and operational impacts to individual and business victims. It threatens national security and diminishes trust in the digital economy and the Internet.