PLUS: Pacific islands targeted by Chinese APT; China’s new rocket soars; DeepSeek puts Korea in a pickle; and more Asia In Brief  The head of Fujitsu’s North American operations has warned that the Trump administration’s tariff plans will be bad for business.… READ MORE HERE…

‘In 50 years, I think we’ll view these business practices like we view sweatshops today’ Interview  It has been nearly a decade since famed cryptographer and privacy expert Bruce Schneier released the book Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World – an examination of how government agencies and tech giants exploit personal data. Today, his predictions feel eerily accurate.… READ MORE HERE…

Roses aren’t cheap, violets are dear, now all your access token are belong to Vladimir Digital thieves – quite possibly Kremlin-linked baddies – have been emailing out bogus Microsoft Teams meeting invites to trick victims in key government and business sectors into handing over their authentication tokens, granting access to emails, cloud data, and other sensitive information.… READ MORE HERE…

Roses are red, violets are blue, CVE-2024-53704 is sweet for a ransomware crew Miscreants are actively abusing a high-severity authentication bypass bug in unpatched internet-facing SonicWall firewalls following the public release of proof-of-concept exploit code.… READ MORE HERE…

High-complexity bug unearthed by infoseccers, as Rapid7 probes exploit further A high-severity SQL injection bug in the PostgreSQL interactive tool was exploited alongside the zero-day used to break into the US Treasury in December, researchers say.… READ MORE HERE…

Officer says mistakenly published police details were shared ‘a considerable amount of times’ Two suspected New IRA members were arrested on Tuesday and charged under the Terrorism Act 2000 after they were found in possession of spreadsheets containing details of staff that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) mistakenly published online.… READ MORE HERE…

Networks in US and beyond compromised by Beijing’s super-snoops pulling off priv-esc attacks China’s Salt Typhoon spy crew exploited vulnerabilities in Cisco devices to compromise at least seven devices linked to global telecom providers and other orgs, in addition to its previous victim count.… READ MORE HERE…