вторник, 24 мая 2016 г.

Governments back cybersecurity

Government bodies were getting serious about cybersecurity, with the state of Victoria launching an ICT strategy that included a cybersecurity commitment and the federal Budget reaffirming support for the cybersecurity sector.

This kind of support will be crucial, since many say the CISO role is the hardest ICT role to fill. Little wonder that the US government is designing a bug-bounty program to help engage as many minds as possible around the security challenges that government organisations face.
With 60 percent of enterprise mobiles still vulnerable to the QSEE exploit within the Android operating system, Google is developing a stronger security core for its upcoming Android N operating system. This, as the company moved to block the vulnerability-prone Adobe Flash for Chrome users at the same time as Adobe moved to patch the latest Flash zero-day.
Malware purveyors scored a hit as an HTTPS hijacking click-fraud botnet infected almost 1 million computers, while malware called Skimer was found to be helping hackers steal money from Microsoft Windows-based ATMs. Ransomware dominated detections of malware in March, figures from FireEye found.
Don't lose all hope, however: there is finally a reason to hope for those targeted by ransomware,with Kaspersky Lab researchers figuring out how to crack the new version of the CryptXXX ransomware and other researchers offering a tool to decrypt files locked by the TeslaCrypt strain.

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