cybersecurity

Inland Revenue says the data it’s handing over is anonymised, but experts say the protection is too weak to be effective.

An outage sparked by a software update disrupted banks, supermarkets, media, transport, flights, and hospital surgeries globally.

‘Today, there’s only three companies that control global access to internet trade and commerce,’ a tech analyst said.

The system will be ‘air gapped’ but how secure is it?

Last month, Microsoft said it asked 700–800 employees to move out of China and reduced its engineering presence in the country.

The company’s president testified to a Homeland Security panel that security is now its ‘top priority.’

Christopher Wray says budget request “will allow the FBI to invest resources in counterterrorism programs previously funded prior to the FY 2024 appropriation.”

The Pentagon issued a cyber strategy in September 2023, identifying the Chinese Communist Party as the biggest threat to US cybersecurity.

‘This is what World War 3 looks like. It’s the speed of technology, the stealth of unrestricted warfare, and no rules,’ says a U.S. security expert.

White House calls on programmers to embrace programming languages that don’t have exploitable memory-safety issues.

‘Things have evolved. Very quickly, it was realized that this could be used for many sectors, many organizations large and small,’ —NIST director.