Top news of the week: 05.10.2021.
Threats And Attacks
The great threat of state and industrial cyber espionage: “The war has begun and it will not stop"
The race to create the vaccine against COVID-19 degenerated into an international war starring cyber attacks to steal the formulas. Pharmaceutical
Nation-state attacks fears grow, execs don’t trust governments to protect them from cyber threats
Fears of nation-state attacks escalate, China (41%) and Russia (41%) are seen equally in the eyes of global IT decision-makers.
Innovations And Trends
Digital transformation: online guide to digital business transformation
The digital transformation guide: in-depth introduction, resources and vertical/functional examples and lessons.
Robotics trends: Artificial intelligence leads Twitter mentions in Q2 2021
Verdict lists the top five terms tweeted on robotics in Q2 2021, based on data from GlobalData’s Influencer Platform.
Data Privacy
There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data
A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people’s movements
Ireland is a ‘GDPR bottleneck’ that lets big tech off the hook
The architect of the EU law believes a centralised regulator with real teeth is required
Startups And Investments
ATT&CK vs. D3FEND - Get Everyone On the Same Page
Recently MITRE Engenuity announced significant innovations helping cybersecurity professionals to work under the same language.
Companies And Services
Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked
Syniverse handles billions of text messages a year, and hackers had unauthorized access to its system for years.
Unwanted Gift: Ransomware, Supply Chain Attacks, and How to Prevent Them
Ransomware and supply chain attacks are dangerously complementary, creating perhaps the worst kind of unwanted gift. Learn why this is, and what you can do to prevent them.
Business And Industries
FireEye Products & McAfee Enterprise Merge to Create $2B Entity
The combined company will have 5,000 employees, more than 40,000 customers, and nearly $2 billion in revenue, officials report.
Data-Privacy Impasse Hangs Over U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Summit
Companies including Google urge officials to strike a new deal to ease trans-Atlantic data flows.