May 2021 | International Law Alerts | Cybersecurity

 

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an Executive Order on cybersecurity and protecting federal government networks from cyberattacks, according to a statement from the press service of the National Security Council at the White House

Filipinos hesitant about applying for a Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) or PhilID due to information security issues should take comfort in the “sufficient safeguards” to ensure the privacy of the PhilID holder

For at least two months, some 345,000 sensitive court documents from the Office of the Solicitor General of the Philippines related to ongoing legal cases were made publicly available online and could have been accessed by anyone who knew where to look, according to the UK security company TurgenSec, which identified the data exposure.

Ransomware attacks on Philippine organizations increase by 12% in cybersecurity firm Sophos’ 2021 report

Ayala-led Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) will spend P10-11 billion this year as information technology (IT) and cybersecurity investments, more than it has been paying for digitalization in the last five years.

Filipino cybersecurity professionals reiterate their call for companies and government agencies to have a functional Vulnerability Disclosure Program or VDP. Read on to know why.

Since the start of the 2019 financial year, Services Australia has reported a total of five eligible data breaches to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC).

After seeing the Colonial Pipeline hack unfold in the US, the Japanese government reportedly wants to impose stricter security regulations on the private sector to ensure the same thing does not happen in Japan.

Today, the UK government has announced a call for advice on defending against software supply-chain attacks and ways to strengthen IT Managed Service Providers (MSPs) across the country.

NASA intends to address long-standing cybersecurity management problems found in a recent report.

Roughly two weeks after Belgium’s parliament, universities, and scientific institutions were hit by a cyberattack, the country’s National Security Council approved a new cybersecurity strategy that aims to shore up its digital defenses.

The European Council this week announced its decision to extend for one year the framework for sanctions against cyberattacks that threaten the European Union and its member states.

Police in Mexico have arrested the alleged head of a financial fraud operation that used corrupt ATMs to steal more than $1 billion from tourists in recent years.

The Indonesian government has blocked access inside its borders to Raid Forums, a well-known cybercrime hub, in an attempt to limit the spread of a sensitive data leak.

Dublin’s High Court has issued an injunction against the Conti ransomware group to stop data belonging to Ireland’s health service from becoming public.

Insurance giant AXA has been hit by a massive ransomware attack, just days after announcing that it would no longer cover damage from that class of cyber-attack in France.