The week in security: Governments back cybersecurity; new hope in ransomware flood

Government bodies were getting serious about cybersecurity, with the state of Victoria launching an ICT strategy that included a cybersecurity commitment and the federal Budget reaffirming support for the cybersecurity sector.

This kind of support will be crucial, since many say the CISO role is the hardest ICT role to fill. Little wonder that the US government is designing a bug-bounty program to help engage as many minds as possible around the security challenges that government organisations face.

With 60 percent of enterprise mobiles still vulnerable to the QSEE exploit within the Android operating system, Google is developing a stronger security core for its upcoming Android N operating system. This, as the company moved to block the vulnerability-prone Adobe Flash for Chrome users at the same time as Adobe moved to patch the latest Flash zero-day. For the full article click here 

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