International

CISA, the FBI, and the EPA have released a guide to help water and wastewater systems respond to incidents. Over 25 organizations from various sectors contributed to this guide, including private companies, non-profit organizations, and government entities. This collaboration ensured that the guide would be useful for water and wastewater …

The financial industry has seen a 137% rise in Vendor Email Compromise attacks in the past year, according to new data from Abnormal Security. Most threats came from email attacks that tricked people, with the sector getting 200 advanced attacks per week for every 1000 mailboxes. Last year, there were …

The Indonesian government has collected Rp 13.29 trillion ($886.4 million) in digital taxes from 135 technology companies, both domestic and foreign, since 2020. Digital tax revenue has been increasing steadily, reaching Rp 731.4 billion in 2020, Rp 3.9 trillion in 2021, Rp 5.51 trillion in 2022, and Rp 3.15 trillion …

Microsoft said on Thursday that it will keep all personal data of its cloud customers within the European Union instead of allowing transfers outside the EU. This is part of their ongoing efforts to comply with different privacy regulations in different places. Microsoft will store customer data from its cloud …

The Federal Reserve is expecting significant losses in 2023, mainly due to higher costs. This was announced by the central bank of the United States last Friday. The interest rate was raised to reduce the money supply, causing commercial banks and other institutions to pay more interest on reserves at …

The World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2024, produced in collaboration with Accenture, examines the cybersecurity trends that will affect economies and societies in the year to come. The report illuminates major findings and puts a spotlight on the widening cyber inequity and the profound impact of emerging technologies. The …

Investigators from Resecurity’s HUNTER (HUMINT) have found that Indonesia is increasingly being targeted by cyber-threat actors who have staged attacks that pose significant long-term risks to the integrity of the country’s elections. These findings coincide with the critical and fast-approaching Indonesian presidential election set to take place in February this …

Juniper Networks released security updates to fix a critical vulnerability in its SRX Series firewalls and EX Series switches. The vulnerability allows remote code execution (RCE) without authentication. A critical security flaw named CVE-2024-21591 was found in devices’ J-Web configuration interfaces. It can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to gain …

Google Cloud will no longer charge users when they seek to transfer their data to a competitor, the firm has announced. This will apply to all customers globally from today. A blog post announcing the decision also took aim at hyperscaler rivals that have continued to charge such fees, arguing …

CISA issued nine advisories about Industrial Control Systems (ICS) on January 11, 2024, to give timely information about security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits related to ICS. ICSA-24-011-03 Rapid Software LLC Rapid SCADA ICSA-24-011-04 Horner Automation Cscape ICSA-24-011-05 Schneider Electric Easergy Studio ICSA-24-011-06 Siemens Teamcenter Visualization and JT2Go ICSA-24-011-07 Siemens Spectrum …