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NCSC, Int@J Partner For First Cyber Security Summit In Jordan In September

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(MENAFN– Jordan Times) Amman – The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Information and Communications Technology Association of Jordan ([email protected] ) signed a memorandum of understanding on Tuesday to coordinate for the first Jordan cyber security summit in September.

The Dot Cyber Summit will discuss global cyber security market size, cloud security solutions, virus and malware protection, threat detection tools, security analysis, identity and access management services, fraud and hacking protection, and other services and products aimed at protecting cyber information and systems, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported citing a NCSC statement.

Government institutions, Jordanian cyber security companies, financial institutions and banks will be brought together under one roof. President of the NCSC Bassam Maharmeh said the summit, which will be a meeting point of prominent figures, seeks to strengthen Jordan’s presence on the cyber security map, focusing on infrastructure protection and basic digital services.

Chairman of [email protected] Eid Swais said the summit will pave the way for cyber security advancement throughout the public and private sectors and help Jordanian enterprises regionally promote their products.

Swais cited global reports that anticipated the global cyber security market size to expand from $173 billion in 2022 to $266 billion in 2023, while other research shows that the Middle East and North Africa region cyber security market size amounted to $20 billion by the end of 2022, predicting it will top $44 billion by 2027 due to the potential increase in data size and cloud computing use and the expanding of the Internet of Things and global digital transformation.

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Phoenix ICT Solutions to partner with Australian Missile Corporation to support GWEO

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Phoenix ICT Solutions is pleased to announce that it has signed a Letter of Intent with The Australian Missile Corporation (AMC). The AMC was invited to become an Enterprise Partner of the Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance (GWEO) enterprise in April 2022 and has since been engaged by the Commonwealth of Australia to assess national industrial capability and readiness to support GWEO outcomes.

Phoenix ICT Solutions has identified several opportunities to cooperate with the AMC including Cyber Security Assurance, Electronic Warfare, C4ISR, Systems Engineering, Test and Evaluation activities. 

Phoenix ICT Solutions CEO, Vijay Selvarathinam, said, “We are thrilled to work with AMC and its network of partners to assist in the delivery of this iconic Australian Defence Program.”

Phoenix ICT Solutions is an Australian SME headquartered in Canberra and has recently expanded its portfolio to include information technology, intelligence, systems engineering, and other in-demand capabilities centred in the Defence and National Security space. This expansion also increases Phoenix ICT Solutions service offering to Defence from strategic business advice, architecture and design to data science and systems engineering and integration, and grows its cadre of clients to now include the Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group, Head Quarters Joint Operations Command, Chief Information Officer Group, Army Head Quarters, DIO, Australian Cyber Security Centre and Space Command.

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BlackBerry and Samsung Partner to Enhance Protection

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The pandemic-fueled increase of remote workers has caused mobile and BYOD (bring your own device) usage to soar across enterprise organizations and small businesses. Predictably, it didn’t take long for cybercriminals to cash in on the boom market in business mobility.

With approximately 5.3 billion mobile device users now roaming the planet — more than 90% relying on “smart” or internet-enabled devices — the preponderance of sparsely protected mobile assets has created a “moveable feast” for online predators.

These devices are increasingly targeted by mobile-optimized attacks, including adware, banking Trojans, malware, and remote access Trojans (RATs) – all growing in frequency, sophistication, and cost to victims.

Android Devices Are Being Targeted

Attacks against Android™ devices are happening on a significant scale. Here are some of the latest numbers:

  • 97% of organizations have contended with mobile malware threats that leverage various attack vectors.

  • Banking malware threats on Android devices increased by 80% in 2021.

  • Last year, adware accounted for 42% of new mobile malware worldwide.

  • 47% of free Android antivirus (AV) programs cannot effectively detect malware. Are BYOD employees relying on free AV programs?

  • Mobile malware apps that provide backdoors into phones are infiltrating via SMS or text messaging. Some cybercriminals are paying monthly fees of $5,000 to rent weaponized apps that let them steal access credentials and sensitive data.

Mobile threat defense (MTD) strategies help disrupt the pace and severity of malware attacks. This includes improving the overall security hygiene of your organization’s mobile users, and embracing modern mobile solutions that go beyond traditional security and enterprise mobility management (EMM).

BlackBerry and Samsung: Partnering to Provide Enhanced MTD

BlackBerry and Samsung joined forces in 2014 to provide high-security enterprise mobility management (EMM) based on BlackBerry UEM (unified endpoint management) and Samsung Knox, a proprietary security and management framework that comes pre-installed on most Samsung mobile devices. To…

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After praising Moxie Marlinspike for Signal, Elon Musk and Twitter to partner with Signal for encrypted DMs- Technology News, Firstpost

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Mehul Reuben DasNov 23, 2022 12:44:04 IST

Elon Musk, when he took over Twitter, had envisioned that Twitter’s DM or Direct Messaging system would be one of the best in the world. In fact Musk had planned to revamp the way DMs function on Twitter and place it behind a paywall so that users can subscribe to a set of features.

In a recent all-hands meeting with the employees of Twitter, Musk reiterated the importance of encrypting DMs on Twitter, and how a former employee, Moxie Marlinspike wanted to work on the feature, but wasn’t really allowed to. He also said that “it should be the case that I can’t look at anyone’s DMs if somebody has put a gun to my head.”

Musk also praised Moxie Marlinspike and said that Twitter would not only start with encryption but eventually, become a better DMing platform than Signal. Musk also announced that Twitter will be partnering up with Moxie Marlinspike and a few people from Signal to work on their encrypted DMs.

Moxie Marlinspike, for those who are unaware, is one of the most prominent cryptographers and computer security researchers in the United States. After his exit from Twitter, he went on to co-found Signal, an end-to-end messaging platform that makes it impossible for snooping eyes to read or view messages or photos that are exchanged between a sender and a receiver.

Over the years, Twitter has kickstarted and then paused building encrypted DMs several times. But now Musk is set on rolling out encryption as a top priority for the vision he is calling Twitter 2.0. 

The first time around, it was Moxie Marlinspike himself who wanted to set up encryption for DMs on the platform. However, in 2013, he had to leave Twitter when the platform didn’t let him build the feature set. 

In 2018, Twitter again set out to set up encryption for DMs and had even bought a license to use Signal’s tech, but by 2019, Twitter reportedly had scrapped the idea again. 

American whistleblower Edward Snowden has reiterated his faith in the Signal app multiple times and says that he uses it every day. Snowden has been in favour of the Signal app since its inception and tweeted that he used…

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