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Massive GDPR fines for data breaches were the order of the week as British Airways copped a £183m ($A328m) fine for a hack of its website last year.
Marriott wasn’t far behind, facing a £99m ($A177m) fine over a breach in which 383m customers’ details were compromised.
Growing damages from data breaches are pushing CSOs to implement new approaches for detecting them – with orchestration and automation increasingly being recognised as crucial to marrying policy and information operations.
Yet many believe that a good use of security analytics will be focused on preventing breaches, not just detecting them after they’ve happened.
Chinese authorities were in a different sort of preventative mood, with revelations that the country’s border security patrols were installing spyware on the phones of foreign travellers.
A Cloudflare outage caused major problems across the Internet, while scammers were causing major problems on Google Play by exploiting weaknesses in Samsung’s phone-update methods.
Meanwhile, Apple pushed out a security update to Mac users to make sure they aren’t exposed to a serious Zoom security flaw.
And Microsoft kicked off a public preview of its Azure Active Directory password muffler, which progresses its push towards a passwordless future.