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SINGAPORE – Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and United States Vice-President Kamala Harris hailed the robust and enduring partnership between their two countries at the Istana on Monday (Aug 23) as they announced new areas of cooperation in cyber security, climate, the economy, and combating pandemics. Ms Harris underlined America’s appreciation for Singapore’s longstanding and…

President Joe Biden plans to host a meeting on Wednesday to discuss how companies are improving cybersecurity after the waves of recent security breaches and ransomware attacks, and Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy will be attending, according to Bloomberg. Google, IBM, JPMorgan Chase, and the energy firm…

T-Mobile has confirmed media reports from earlier this week that it had suffered a serious data breach. And it’s not just existing T-Mobile users who should be alarmed, but former and prosepective customers as well. In an advisory published on its website, the telecoms giant warned that cybercriminals had accessed customers’ names, driver’s license details,…

CRISIS MANAGEMENT The Taliban official said the group planned to ready a new model for governing Afghanistan within the next few weeks, with separate teams to tackle internal security and financial issues. “Experts from the former government will be brought in for crisis management,” he told Reuters. The new government structure would not be a…

Cybercrime , DDoS Protection , Endpoint Security 17.2 Million Request-Per-Second Attack Launched by 20,000 Bots, Cloudflare Says Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • August 21, 2021     Security firm Cloudflare says it detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second distributed denial-of-service attack, almost three times larger than any previously reported HTTP DDoS attack. See Also: 2021…

A T-Mobile logo is seen on the storefront door of a store in Manhattan, New York, U.S., April 30, 2018. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton Aug 20 (Reuters) – T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) said on Friday an ongoing investigation into a data breach revealed that hackers accessed personal information of an additional 5.3 million customers, bringing the total…

Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management , Patch Management Researchers Find Ransomware Gangs Now Exploiting the Vulnerabilities Mihir Bagwe • August 23, 2021     The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is warning organizations to patch the ProxyShell vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange email servers because security researchers say ransomware gangs are exploiting…

Cryptocurrency platform Poly Network said on Monday that almost all of the $610 million (roughly Rs. 4,523 crores) stolen this month in one of the biggest crypto heists had now been returned by the unknown person or persons behind the attack. In a Twitter post, Poly Network said it had regained control of all the…

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Nations Agree to Collaborate on Information Sharing, Training Dan Gunderman (dangun127) • August 23, 2021     U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is in Asia this week. (Photo: Gage Skidmore via Flickr) The U.S. and Singapore have announced three agreements to expand…

Breach Notification , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Incident & Breach Response Australia Regulator Says Such Breaches Are Likely Underreported Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • August 23, 2021     Australia’s data protection regulator says organizations hit by ransomware may be underreporting data breaches because they haven’t thoroughly figured out if data was taken. See Also:…