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    Notorious Hackers Claim Responsibility for Labour Cyber Attacks and Threaten to Target Corbyn's Family

    2019-11-12

    Independent: Lizard Squad, which has previously targeted singer Taylor Swift and video game companies said that it used a distributed denial of service (DDoS) tool in an attempt to knock the party's digital platforms offline.

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    The Global Cybersecurity Market was Valued at USD 118.78 Billion in 2018, and is Expected to Reach USD 267.73 Billion by 2024

    2019-11-11

    Cision: The global cybersecurity market was valued at USD 118.78 billion in 2018, and is expected to reach USD 267.73 billion by 2024, registering a CAGR of 14.5%, during the period of 2019-2024. The rise in trend for IoT, BYOD, AI and machine learning in cybersecurity is increasing. For instance, machine learning provides advantages in outlier detection, much to the benefit of cybersecurity. Machines can handle billions of security events in a single day, providing clarity around a system's activity and flagging anything unusual for human review. 

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    More Data Breaches: Aussie Banks to Cop New Warning

    2019-11-11

    Channel News: Australian banks have received a warning from the nation‘s peak financial regulator to improve their poor “cyber hygiene”, following revelations that there have been some 36 significant data breaches in just four months.

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    Cybersecurity Firm ForeScout to Explore Potential Sale

    2019-11-11

    Bloomberg: Cybersecurity company ForeScout Technologies Inc. is exploring strategic options, including a possible sale, after activist investors built a stake, according to people familiar with the matter.

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    Know Your Breach: First American

    The target: First American Financial Corp, a Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant

    The take: 885 million files, including records of wire transactions with bank account numbers, bank statements, mortgage records, tax documents, Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses.

    The attack vector: FA’s webserver used a system of assigning sensitive documents unique web links – however, incrementing the id number in the link returned other, unrelated documents for any user accessing the site via web, with no authentication necessary.

    ‘Security by obscurity’ has no place in the 21st century – it is altogether insufficient to rely on the presumed inability of an attacker to locate sensitive resources left exposed to the public web. Any data which is not for public consumption must be protected with a secure authentication system to ensure that it can only be accessed by the intended audience.

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    How Investors Can Better Gauge Corporates’ Cyber Risks

    2019-11-07

    AsianInvestor: A lack of adequate cyber security can have a huge impact on investment performance, so asset owners should take action to minimise such risks within their portfolio companies, says a new report by two British pension funds, with clear implications for their peers elsewhere.

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    North Korean Hackers Allegedly Targeted Indian Space Agency

    2019-11-07

    ITPro: At least five critical Indian government agencies have been reportedly targeted by North Korean hackers in recent months, including its atomic regulatory board and space agency.

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    Drawbridge Partners Expands Cybersecurity Offering

    2019-11-07

    Hedgeweek: DrawbridgeConnect-R continuously analyses a firm’s vulnerabilities – rather than providing a mere point in time vulnerability assessment – and helps firms identify, prioritise and remediate organizational cybersecurity weaknesses that leave data at risk.

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    Most Organizations Plan to Increase Their Cybersecurity Budgets in 2020

    2019-11-06

    Help Net Security: With the perpetually shifting threat landscape, most organizations (over 90%) believe that the cyber threat landscape will stay the same or worsen in 2020, according to FireEye.

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    After Brexit, Europe Wants Cybersecurity Pact with UK

    2019-11-06

    ZDNet: The UK's twice-delayed departure from the European Union is still dependent on an exit deal being agreed by Parliament. Once this is done, the country currently has until the end of 2020 to agree on its future relationship with Europe.

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