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Best practices to defend and respond to cyber-attacks, drawing on analogies with the COVID-19 pandemic, were set out by Brian Honan, CEO, BH Consulting, during this week’s IRISSCON 2021. Honan began by warning organizations: “What you put in place to defend or secure your network won’t stop the attackers. It will delay the attackers, but a sophisticated attacker will get by your systems eventually, so what you need to do is design your security to delay…

Commentary: AI is considered “world changing” by policymakers, but it’s unclear how to ensure positive outcomes. Image: iStock/metamorworks According to a new Clifford Chance survey of 1,000 tech policy experts across the United States, U.K., Germany and France, policymakers are concerned about the impact of artificial intelligence, but perhaps not nearly enough. Though policymakers rightly worry about cybersecurity, it’s perhaps too easy to focus on near-term, obvious threats while the longer-term, not-obvious-at-all threats of AI…

News Detail PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced the company has been invited to be a member of the 2021 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI), one of the world’s leading environmental, social and governance (ESG) benchmarks, for the second consecutive year. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: … Fri, 19 Nov 2021 00:00:00 PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced the company has been…

Cyber veteran Eugene Kaspersky outlined the need to transition from cybersecurity to cyber-immunity during a session at this week’s IRISSCON 2021. Kaspersky, CEO of the Russian-headquartered IT security vendor of the same name, said humanity is entering a new stage of its evolution – the cyber age. In this era, we will become increasingly reliant on digital technology, which will offer huge benefits to individuals and society at large. However, there are significant barriers to this…

A suspected prolific drug trafficker is set to face trial following an international operation to crack a popular encrypted chat network used by criminals, according to the National Crime Agency (NCA). The UK agency for serious and organized crime revealed that 44-year-old Kamran Butt had been extradited to Germany, where he is now remanded in custody of the Bundeskriminalamt (federal police) awaiting trial. A Hamburg judge issued a European arrest warrant for Butt in October 2020. He…

Researchers have discovered 11 new malicious open-source packages using various advanced techniques to avoid detection on the popular PyPl repository. Python’s official third-party software repository is home to over half a million developers, who typically use pre-built open-source packages to accelerate time-to-market. However, threat actors are increasingly infiltrating these upstream sources for their own ends. The JFrog Security research team yesterday revealed it had discovered 11 new malware packages with over 40,000 downloads from PyPl. Their authors…

There’s a “shockingly high” disconnect between awareness of best practices following a data breach and actions taken, according to a new study from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). The non-profit polled over 1000 US consumers to gauge their understanding of and response to breach incidents involving personal information. The report found that more than half (55%) of social media users have had their accounts compromised in the past, so there’s generally a high level of awareness about…