The passing of sweeping changes to Hong Kong’s electoral rules will mean prospective MPs will have to go through a degrading and humiliating process, the former Democratic Party chairperson and legislator Emily Lau has said. Hong Kong does not have democracy but they had a system which allowed people to be free, safe and have…
The discussion about pornography and sex needs to be brought out into the mainstream, the adult film director Erika Lust has said. She told BBC Hardtalk that whether we like it or not porn had become sex education and so it was very important for parents and educators to talk to younger generations and explain…
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on Monday released a draft framework for a voluntary, risk-based approach to cyber security for the election infrastructure community. The new draft guidance, Cybersecurity Framework Election Infrastructure… Already a subscriber or….
NIST issues draft election security framework | IT Security News GCN: News, Explainers, Insights 30. March 2021 The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a draft framework that takes NIST’s pre-existing cybersecurity best practices and applies them to the voting equipment and information systems supporting elections. Like this: Like Loading… Related Tags: GCN:…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Agency Describes How to Apply Its Cybersecurity Framework Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • March 30, 2021 The National Institute of Standards and Technology has drafted guidelines for how to use its cybersecurity framework to address cyberthreats and other security issues that can…
Application Security , Endpoint Security , Governance & Risk Management Malware Steals Data, Messages, Images; Takes Control of Phones Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • March 30, 2021 Android device users are being targeted by a sophisticated spyware app that disguises itself as a “system update” application, warns mobile security firm Zimperium zLabs. See Also:…
Cybersecurity researchers on Monday disclosed two new vulnerabilities in Linux-based operating systems that, if successfully exploited, could let attackers circumvent mitigations for speculative attacks such as Spectre and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory.Discovered by Piotr Krysiuk of Symantec’s Threat Hunter team, the flaws — tracked as CVE-2020-27170 and CVE-2020-27171 (CVSS
Despite having the highest percentage of companies with an independent security budget, 52 per cent of organisations in India have fallen victim to a successful cybersecurity attack in the last 12 months, according to a survey by cybersecurity firm Sophos. According to the survey report, The Future of Cybersecurity in the Asia Pacific and Japan,…
Sweeping changes to Hong Kong’s electoral rules were “not a good sign” and have turned democratic progress “back to square one”, Lo Kin-hei of the Democratic Party said. “These kind of changes… made today is turning Hong Kong back for 20-odd years. “In the past 20 years there was some sort of progress in the…
