Cybersecurity Institute News Roundup 27 Feb 2024
Welcome to this week’s Cybersecurity Institute News Roundup, a weekly overview of the some of the most interesting news and articles that have caught our attention recently from across the cybersecurity industry. This week we decided to focus on good news stories.
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We kick off with news from Apple, announcing a new post-quantum cryptographic protocol called PQ3 that it said will be integrated into iMessage to secure the messaging platform against future attacks arising from the threat of a practical quantum computer. The threat of quantum computers breaking traditional cryptographic algorithms is one we’ve spoken about at length, and this announcement lends a lot of credence and awareness to this fast approaching issue:
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Next up we have not one, but two stories of wins against bad actors. The first details how Western allies have disrupted a botnet of hacked routers used by Russia for cyber espionage operations, while the second outlines how an international law enforcement operation managed to not just severely disrupt operations by cybercriminal group LockBit, but managed to turn the infrastructure against them revealing code, details of victims, and details of the hackers:
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In the world of payments, there is news that the use of payment cards continues to rise across the world. The research reveals that, despite the adoption of digital wallets and online payments, credit and debit cards enjoyed the lion’s share of new growth in spending outside China in every region of the world:
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There’s also news of disclosed vulnerabilities, but as promised, it’s good news. This article discusses how, in an age when an organization experiencing a data breach at some point is an almost certainty, one signal that a cybersecurity platform is reliable can actually be that it discloses multiple vulnerabilities:
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For those of us of a certain age, and a tendency towards geekiness, Star Trek and Douglas Adams will be two very familiar names. Star Trek managed to predict a lot of the devices we commonly see today and is synonymous with futuristic technology, while Douglas Adams had a famously absurd, but remarkably??????????? astute view of technology and its evolution. With that in mind, this article delves into how tech has graduated from the Star Trek era to the Douglas Adams age:
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Be sure to share your thoughts on these stories in the comments and let us know what articles have caught your eye recently?