Cyber capabilities report: Lack of talent, innovation ecosystem limiting China, East Asia News & Top Stories

Cyber capabilities report: Lack of talent, innovation ecosystem limiting China, East Asia News & Top Stories

BEIJING – Among the main challenges that Beijing faces in its quest to become a cyber superpower is that of building a national ecosystem which encourages innovation and churns out talent with cyber skills, an expert told The Straits Times on Monday (June 28). A lack of talent is one of the main reasons why,…

Covid: ‘Australia vaccine rollout is stunning failure’

Covid: ‘Australia vaccine rollout is stunning failure’

Australia is lagging way behind other developed countries with the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine, Prof Tim Soutphommasane has said. The political theorist at Sydney University said the current “fortress Australia” policy would have significant long-term effects on the country. He told BBC World News: “Australia has been winning the war but it is at…

Crypto sector shaken by UK ban on world’s largest exchange

Crypto sector shaken by UK ban on world’s largest exchange

The watchdog said that the company’s British entity, Binance Markets Limited, was “not permitted to undertake any regulated activity in the UK” and added that “no other entity in the Binance Group holds any form of UK authorisation, registration or licence to conduct regulated activity in the UK”. Binance has been ordered to remove any…

NIST details executive order’s ‘critical software’ categories — GCN

NIST details executive order’s ‘critical software’ categories — GCN

NIST details executive order’s ‘critical software’ categories By Chris Riotta Jun 28, 2021 To help agencies comply with the Biden administration’s cybersecurity executive order, the National Institute of Standards and Technology on June 25 posted a new definition of “critical software” for production systems and operational purposes. Critical software is defined as covering…

NVD – CVE-2021-32720

CVE-2021-32720 Detail Awaiting Analysis This vulnerability is currently awaiting analysis. Description Sylius is an Open Source eCommerce platform on top of Symfony. In versions of Sylius prior to 1.9.5 and 1.10.0-RC.1, part of the details (order ID, order number, items total, and token value) of all placed orders were exposed…

4 Dell Bugs Could Affect 30 Million Users

4 Dell Bugs Could Affect 30 Million Users

Application Security , Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Dell Issues Security Advisory to Address Flaws Rashmi Ramesh • June 28, 2021     Researchers at security firm Eclypsium report that they have identified four vulnerabilities that could affect 30 million users of computer technology company Dell’s laptops, desktops and tablets. See Also: Live…

SolarWinds Hackers Breach Microsoft Customer Support to Target its Customers

SolarWinds Hackers Breach Microsoft Customer Support to Target its Customers

In yet another sign that the Russian hackers who breached SolarWinds network monitoring software to compromise a slew of entities never really went away, Microsoft said the threat actor behind the malicious cyber activities used password spraying and brute-force attacks in an attempt to guess passwords and gain access to its customer accounts. “This recent…