Asokan is a U.K.-based senior correspondent for Information Security Media Group's global news desk. She previously worked with IDG and other publications, reporting on developments in technology, minority rights and education.
The U.K. communication regulator laid down plans to implement a controversial regulation intended to prevent online child sexual abuse material after it officially became law. The Online Safety Bill received royal assent on Thursday after it was cleared by the parliament in September.
The U.K. Parliament is calling on experts to provide information on improving critical infrastructure cybersecurity amid mounting concerns that internet-connected systems underpinning functions such as power delivery and healthcare are vulnerable to hackers.
A top European official pushed back against accusations she let American and British organizations influence a proposal requiring messenger apps to scan for child sexual abuse material. "The proposal was drafted under my direct guidance," said Commissioner for Home Affairs Minister Ylva Johansson
Leading artificial intelligence experts are calling on governments and tech companies to swiftly develop safeguards for AI systems to mitigate potential existential threats posed by the technology. More capable future AI systems might "learn to feign obedience" to human directives, they say.
Spanish police arrested 34 members of a cybercrime group that used phishing and other tactics to extort nearly 3 million euros from victims. The group is believed to have stolen data of more than 4 million banking customers to target its victims.
European police in Paris this week arrested a man accused of being a key developer of Ragnar Locker ransomware. A joint action led by French authorities resulted in one arrest and the questioning of five suspects located in Spain and Latvia in coordinated action that began Monday.
The hacker who allegedly leaked mental health records online after breaking into a Helsinki-based psychotherapy chain's patient database has been charged in Finnish court with multiple counts of extortion and leaking data. Finnish national Aleksanteri Tomminpoika Kivimäki, 26, has denied guilt.
Nation-state hacks against Western start-ups are surging in a bid by competitor nations to glean intellectual property, warns the Five Eyes intelligence alliance. The stolen data was likely used to fast-track technological and military capabilities within adversary nations, alliance members say.
The EU will set up a dedicated office to oversee the implementation of the AI Act, especially by big-tech companies such as OpenAI. Dragoş Tudorache, a Romanian politician and the co-rapporteur of the AI Act, said negotiators have agreed in principle on creation of an "EU AI Office."
A British financial regulator fined American credit reporting agency Equifax 11 millions pounds ($13.4 million) for its role in one of the world's largest data breaches. Chinese military hackers in 2017 exploited a well-known vulnerability in the company's online dispute portal.
A Chinese nation state hacking group is exploiting a zero-day flaw in Atlassian's Confluence Data Center and Server products as part a campaign spotted in mid-September, Microsoft researchers say. The company attributes the campaign to a Chinese nation-state hacking group designates Storm-0062.
The head TikTok has been summoned by European lawmakers from different parliamentary committees for an inquiry into its privacy practices. In a letter sent to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on Thursday, the heads of five European Parliament committees requested that Chew appear for an in-person probe.
More than five dozen British lawmakers across political parties and privacy organizations called for an "immediate stop" to real-time facial recognition in the United Kingdom. Live facial recognition faces a ban in Europe and its use by police is banned in a handful of U.S. jurisdictions.
More than four dozen cybersecurity mavens say a proposed European Union mandate for software publishers to inform the trading bloc's cybersecurity agency of zero-day exploits within 24 hours of their discovery risks harming cybersecurity efforts.
French lawmakers on Wednesday will mull limits on virtual private networks as part of an anti-cybercrime measure that would also require web browsers to notify users when they access websites listed on a government blacklist. The bill, widely known as SREN, passed the French Senate in June.
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