The recommendation comes from a group set up by government to boost take-up of the service. Source:: BBC News – Technology

A malware campaign targeting South Korean entities that came to light earlier this year has been attributed to a North Korean nation-state hacking group called… Read More »Malware Attack on South Korean Entities Was Work of Andariel Group

NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released a new draft report, NIST Interagency or Internal Report (NISTIR) 8335, Identity as a Service for… Read More »Identity as a Service for Public Safety: Draft NISTIR 8335 Available for Comment

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation announced the formation of the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Resource… Read More »ITL Chief of Staff Elham Tabassi to serve on newly formed National AI Research Resource Task Force

To help foster wider access to voting, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting information from the public about barriers that limit… Read More »NIST Seeks Public Input on Removing Barriers to Voting for People With Disabilities

Ferocious Kitten is an APT group that since at least 2015 has been targeting Persian-speaking individuals who appear to be based in Iran. Although it… Read More »Ferocious Kitten: 6 years of covert surveillance in Iran

As ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure skyrocket, new research shows that threat actors behind such disruptions are increasingly shifting from using email messages as an… Read More »Ransomware Attackers Partnering With Cybercrime Groups to Hack High-Profile Targets

Companies are urged to work harder against those “profiting financially from the rape and abuse of children”. Source:: BBC News – Technology

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday issued an advisory regarding a critical software supply-chain flaw impacting ThroughTek’s software development kit (SDK)… Read More »Critical ThroughTek Flaw Opens Millions of Connected Cameras to Eavesdropping

Legal action filed over volume of data shared by digital advertising firms during ad space sales. Source:: BBC News – Technology

AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) helps you securely share your resources across AWS accounts within your organization or organizational units (OUs) in AWS Organizations, and… Read More »AWS Resource Access Manager enables granular access control with additional managed permissions

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) has extended support for sharing CAs via Resource Access Manager (RAM). Customers can now share CAs across accounts to… Read More »AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports more flexibility for CAs shared across accounts

AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes v1.4.0 is now available and includes support for enhanced ingress traffic management capabilities. The AWS App Mesh Controller for… Read More »Announcing AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes Version 1.4.0 with Ingress Enhancements

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of the Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS)… Read More »Amazon Polly Launches a new German Neural Text-to-Speech voice

A last-minute Zelda segment capped a Nintendo showcase which left some fans disappointed. Source:: BBC News – Technology

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last week announced the arrest of a 55-year-old Latvian woman who’s alleged to have worked as a programmer for… Read More »How Does One Get Hired by a Top Cybercrime Gang?

Amazon Translate – a fully managed neural machine translation service that delivers high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation in 71 languages and variants – is… Read More »Amazon Translate is Now Integrated with Amazon CloudWatch Events and Amazon EventBridge

Today we announced the general availability of AWS Elemental Link UHD, a High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) encoding device that connects a live ultra-high definition (UHD)… Read More »Introducing AWS Elemental Link UHD: a device to send live UHD video to AWS

I’ve already focused on some of the bigger announcements made at WWDC this year; here’s a look at  some of the smaller (mostly iOS) improvements… Read More »WWDC: 12 small but important improvements you may have missed

Are ransomware attacks on the rise? It would certainly seem so. From the Colonial Pipeline to JBS to Ireland’s Health Service, the effects of ransomware… Read More »Changes In The Ransomware Landscape | Avast