The European Aviation Industry’s New Cybersecurity Rules

Europe has expanded its cybersecurity rules around airline flight safety. And for the first time, the requirements cover a range of companies in the aviation supply chain. 

WSJ Pro Cybersecurity reporter Catherine Stupp joins host Julie Chang to discuss the new rules and how companies are responding

Essential Geopolitics How a Cyberattack on a Pipeline Revealed Critical Shortcomings

How the cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline will accelerate efforts to boost the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure. Will it work? 

 

Significant Cyber Attacks from 2006-2020

Committing a cyber crime can have serious consequences. In the U.S., a cyber criminal can receive up to 20 years in prison for hacking into a government institution if it compromises national security.

Yet, despite the consequences, cyber criminals continue to wreak havoc across the globe. But some countries seem to be targeted more than others.

Using data from Specops Software, this graphic looks at the countries that have experienced the most significant cyber attacks over the last two decades.

To view the infographic and the full post click HERE. 

Cybercrime - Was this the most daring bank theft ever attempted?

In November 2014, one of the world's biggest movie studios was the target of a devastating cyber attack. The aftermath left Hollywood reeling - but an even bigger shock was in store. In the first episode of a new BBC podcast, Geoff White and Jean Lee investigate the story of the Lazarus Heist.

“Almost a perfect crime.” The hacking ring and an attempt to steal a billion dollars. Investigators blame North Korea. Pyongyang denies involvement. The story begins in Hollywood.

Listen to this BBC podcast HERE.

Concerns about SWIFT

The international payments-messaging system SWIFT, used by 11,000 banks, issued a mandatory software upgrade to users of its Alliance Access interface, as concern deepened about cyber-attacks on the banking system. The non-profit body said criminals were using malicious software to disguise fraudulent transactions. In February cyber-criminals stole $81m from Bangladesh’s central bank—one of the biggest heists in history.

Just How Vulnerable Are Mobile-Payment Apps to Hack Attacks?

From Mobile Marketing Watch –

“Making a purchase or other payment is not like it used to be. These days, cash and credit cards aren’t the necessities they once were because alternative-payment options are just a tap or two away on a mobile device through apps such as Google Wallet, Apple Pay, Square, Levelup, Kash and PayPal.

But just how secure are those mobile-payment apps and who makes sure that the companies behind them are doing all they can to keep your personal data safe?”

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The new art of war: How trolls, hackers and spies are rewriting the rules of conflict

From Tech Republic –

“Cyberwar isn't going to be about hacking power stations. It's going to be far more subtle, and more dangerous.

Wandering the pretty, medieval streets of Tallinn's old town, it is hard to believe that the tiny country of Estonia has anything at all to do with cyberwarfare. But first as victim of an attack and now as home to some of the leading thinkers on how the digital battlefield will develop, the country has played a key role in its emergence and evolution.

Estonia is a country of around 1.3 million people, facing the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland, it borders Latvia to the south and Russia to the east. After decades as part of the Soviet Union, it regained independence in 1991.

Even today reminders of the Soviet times still abound in the capital Tallinn. There's a museum in one of the big downtown hotels showing how the KGB would bug the rooms of foreign guests.”

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The UK Has Quietly Rewritten Hacking Laws

From Bank Info Security -

“Prosecution Exemption Now Applies to Police, Spies. The British government rewrote the country's computer abuse law in March to shield law enforcement and intelligence agencies from being prosecuted for hacking.

But the action wasn't disclosed until May 14, when the government informed the civil rights group Privacy International - and seven Internet and communications service providers - about the revised hacking law in response to a hacking-related legal claim these organizations filed against a U.K. intelligence agency.

The legal claim was filed in February against the Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ. "The claimants asserted that GCHQ's actions were both unlawful under the Computer Misuse Act (CMA), which criminalizes hacking, and that there was not sufficiently detailed legal authority to make GCHQ's hacking 'in accordance with law,' as any violation of privacy is required to be by Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights," Privacy International says in a statement.”

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