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By Otavio Freire, CTO & Co-Founder at SafeGuard Cyber China accounts for almost a quarter of global GDP, and its growing middle class has significant spending power. Across every industry, global growth plans include capturing market share in China. However, China presents unique challenges. Its information ecosystem is built differently to any other. The tools and platforms used by sales and marketing teams operating in APAC, EMEA and the Americas cannot simply be transplanted to…

The data breach disclosed by Ubiquiti in January could be just the tip of the iceberg, a deeper incident could have hit the company. In January, American technology vendor Ubiquiti Networks suffered a data breach, it sent out notification emails to its customers asking them to change their passwords and enable 2FA for their accounts. Ubiquiti, which makes a range of IoT gear (routers, locks, Web cams, NVRs) & has a cloud solution for managing…

AT&T’s public safety network picks up new features, including full tower-to-core encryption and a custom 5G setup. FirstNet One is a 55-foot tethered blimp that can fly and restore communications access in areas that have lost connectivity because of natural disasters or other incidents. Image: AT&T/FirstNet FirstNet, the dedicated public safety cell carrier, is adding 5G support and new encryption for user data. The network, which is operated as a public-private partnership between AT&T and…

The company made a slew of announcements at its annual conference this week that will roll out throughout the year. At its Cisco Live conference this week, the company announced everything from a redesign of its internet infrastructure to a new network-as-a-service offering. Cisco also made a strong push toward a passwordless future to improve security. Redesigning internet infrastructure Cisco announced plans to help communication service providers and web-scale companies strengthen their networks. Building networks…

A former intelligence analyst who was once a United States military service member has pleaded guilty to obtaining classified information and passing it to a reporter. Daniel Everette Hale served as an enlisted airman in the US Air Force from July 2009 to July 2013. After language and intelligence training, the 31-year-old from Nashville, Tennessee, was assigned to work at the National Security Agency (NSA) and deployed to Afghanistan as an intelligence analyst. It was…

A cyber-bully has been fined for sending hateful messages to a professional wrestler before she took her own life. Japanese wrestler and Netflix reality show star Hana Kimura was just 22 years old when she killed herself on May 23 last year by inhaling toxic gas in her Tokyo home. Kimura became a target for internet trolls after the airing of an episode of Terrace House: Tokyo in which she was shown arguing with a housemate who had…

American multinational technology company Microsoft has been hit by its second outage in two weeks. Striking the company on April Fool’s Day, the substantial cloud outage knocked Microsoft’s Azure cloud services, Teams, Office 365, and OneDrive offline. Skype, Xbox Live, and Bing were also impacted. News of the outage began emanating from Twitter users at around 5pm ET yesterday. The situation was confirmed by website DownDetector, which reported receiving thousands of notices about the outage from users of Office,…

Cybersecurity firm Trustwave has uncovered a security vulnerability in the popular website CMS, Umbraco. In a blog post on its website, Trustwave researchers outlined details of a privilege escalation issue which allows low privileged users to elevate themselves to the status of admin. The problem resides in an API endpoint that does not properly check the user’s authorization prior to returning results found to the application’s logging section. In the CMS, higher privileged users, i.e….

By Nicole Allen, Marketing Executive, SaltDNA. The sudden increase in remote working has ensured that ‘bring your own device’ (BYOD) is once again a hot topic, as the workforce relies on a number of devices, including personal phones and laptops, to get their jobs done from home or the workplace. This raises the question of how companies can not only gain insight into their holistic technology ecosystem but also how they can handle these proliferating devices. Although remote…