Top news of the week: 01.09.2021.
Innovations And Trends
Google, Microsoft plan to spend billions on cybersecurity after meeting with Biden
Business leaders in sectors ranging from tech to insurance committed billions of dollars to beefing up cybersecurity efforts at a meeting with President Biden.
Ransomware: It's only a matter of time before a smart city falls victim, and we need to take action now
Ransomware groups go after targets that downtime causes the most disruption for. That means an insecure 5G IoT connected city could be a prime target for extortion attacks.
Leading Banking-as-a Service (BaaS) Provider Finaptic Chooses Acuant to Power Trusted Onboarding
Acuant today announced a new partnership with Finaptic, Canada’s only end-to-end, white-label Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider.
'The door is now wide open': Mike Lindell accused of handing hackers the keys to creating election chaos
According to a report from the Guardian, efforts by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and Arizona Republicans seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election have had the adverse effect of ...
US Air Force prioritizes blockchain security with new Constellation Network contract
Constellation Network said it had been working with Kinnami Software Corporation to develop an end-to-end data security solution using blockchain encryption and distributed data management ...
A New LinkedIn Vulnerability Exposes Jobseekers to Phishing Attacks
The latest LinkedIn vulnerability can be exploited by con artists for massive phishing attacks, identity theft, and employment-related scams.
Vulnerability Disclosure Programs Need to Get Organized
Most product vulnerabilities are now discovered not by the affected vendor, but by outside sources like third-party researchers, and they're all over the map.
Fact check: Georgia candidate Herschel Walker is a serial promoter of false 2020 conspiracy theories
Republican former football star Herschel Walker announced this week that he is running for a US Senate seat in Georgia.