Two-thirds of CISOs fear network attack in next 12 months Friday, 14 May 2021 11:49 Two-thirds of CISOs fear network attack in next 12 months
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Almost two-thirds (64%) of chief information security officers in 14 countries believe they will be hit by a material cyber-attack in the next 12 months, the security firm Proofpoint says.
The figure was highest in the UK (81%) with Singapore (44%) at the other end of the scale. In Australia, 72% of those surveyed expressed the same fear.
The survey, conducted by research firm Censuswide, covered 100 companies which had more than 200 employees in each of 14 countries. The 2021 Voice of the CISO survey covered the US, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Japan, and Singapore. The survey was carried out in the first quarter of 2021.
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Have your say and comment below. Thursday, 13 May 2021 12:00 ABC demands your details to show you iview content you funded
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The taxpayer-funded ABC will demand that users register and provide personal details, which will also be shared with Google and Facebook, if they wish to use the iview service from 1 July.
In
a statement headlined Don t be surprised if you re surprised by the new ABC iview issued on 11 May, the ABC attempted to make it appear as though the service was something new.
More than 600 technicians employed by the NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, will walk off the job on Wednesd.
iTWire Wednesday, 12 May 2021 09:58 Deadline approaches for WhatsApp privacy changes to take effect Featured Image by bricketh from Pixabay
Changes announced to the WhatsApp privacy policy and scheduled to take effect on 15 May will not result in accounts being deleted or the app becoming unusable immediately after that date, the company, part of Facebook, says in a statement.
The
changes will mean that communications with businesses by WhatsApp users whether by email, phone or WhatsApp itself will be visible to the application.
For the past several weeks, WhatsApp says it has displayed a notification within the app, providing more information about the update.
iTWire Wednesday, 05 May 2021 11:21 Signal chief highlights how Facebook uses personal data to target ads Featured
Hardly a month after he
exposed the poor security in software deployed by Israeli mobile surveillance firm Cellebrite, Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike has taken a potshot at Facebook s practices of collecting personal data.
In
a blog post, Marlinspike, whose real name is Matthew Rosenfeld, said he had taken an Instagram ad account in order to show the degree of visibility that companies like Facebook had into users lives. [Companies like Facebook] collect everything they can from FB, Instagram, and WhatsApp in order to sell visibility into people and their lives, Marlinspike said.