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Organisations and governments are progressively putting resources into enhancing their cyber security conventions as the recurrence of attacks rises. Actually, every one of them is attempting to remain on track against the most recent cyber-attacks, yet there are a few nations committing most to cyber security. Source: Analytics Insight

A third of workers used own email for work, and 24% shared files with family and friends. Employees are still the weak link in the security system, with poor habits that potentially put organisations at risk of critical data and intellectual property loss, and severe legal and reputational repercussions, new research from Microsoft has found. Source: Irish Times

LandMark White has claimed that the data inadvertently leaked by the property valuation firm and subsequently posted on a ‘darkweb’ forum is “relatively benign”. Earlier this month the ASX-listed company revealed details of a data breach. It subsequently entered a trading halt to assess the impact on its business, after major banks paused their use of its services. Source: ComputerWorld

Australia’s major political parties have been targeted by a “sophisticated state actor”, according to Scott Morrison, as part of a breach of the Parliament House computer network. The head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre, Alistair MacGibbon, says agencies were unsure what material had been taken in the incident because the rapid remediation efforts had removed some of the forensic evidence. Source: Guardian

Any risk posed by involving the Chinese technology giant Huawei in UK telecoms projects can be managed, cyber-security chiefs have determined. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre's decision undermines US efforts to persuade its allies to ban the firm from 5G communications networks. The Chinese government is accused of using Huawei as a proxy so it can spy on rival nations. Source: BBC

The FBI arrested yesterday a hacker part of a hacking team known as Apophis Squad. This is the second arrest of an Apophis Squad member after UK cops arrested a teenager in August 2018.The two, US and UK citizens, respectively, have been charged in an indictment unsealed by the US Department of Justice yesterday. Source: ZDnet

Taiwanese NAS maker QNAP has admitted its devices are affected by mysterious malware that alters hosts files on infected boxen following The Register's report.In a security advisory published yesterday, QNAP told its customers: "A recently reported malware is known to affect QNAP NAS devices. We are currently analyzing the malware and will provide the solution as soon as possible." Source: The Register

A new strain of MacOS malware disguises itself as a Windows executable file to evade detection and embed itself on a system. But the malware authors aren't exactly in the cross-platform avant-garde: the .EXE file that carries the MacOS malware will not, in fact, execute on a Windows machine. Source: Dark Reading

An analysis of the malware linked with the 2015 cyber-attacks on the Ukrainian power grid reveals that hackers added a large amount of junk code to their malware in a bid to evade detection and to confuse security researchers. Source: Computing

The new Pentagon artificial intelligence strategy serves as a roadmap for how the American military will embrace machine learning in future cyber operations, which could be a boon for companies who invest in the technology.Released Feb 12, the Pentagon’s strategy shows how the American military will rely on artificial intelligence as a defensive tool. Source: Fifth Domain