The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) said Google Cloud joined its critical providers program, as part of a larger industry effort to bolster supply chain security in the financial services sector.

To help tackle the skills deficit in cloud security, the SANS Institute and Google have launched a new academy focused on providing scholarship-based training for underrepresented groups.

Launched in 2016, OSS-Fuzz is meant to help identify vulnerabilities in open-source software through continuous fuzzing, with a declared goal of making common software infrastructure more secure.

An international counter-ransomware task force first announced at a White House event in November officially commenced operations on Monday, according to the Australian government which is the inaugural chair of the group.

The plan set out by the Chinese government also calls for the development of more infosec products and improvements to the security of existing offerings. China wants AI and blockchain to be applied when suitable.

Amid heightened threats to healthcare systems, more than 20 leading healthcare organizations have come together to identify effective, efficient, and new innovative approaches to reduce cyber risk across the industry’s third-party ecosystem.

Most CNAs can assign CVE identifiers to vulnerabilities found in their own products, but some can also assign CVEs to flaws found by their researchers in third-party software that is not in another CNA’s scope.

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), alongside innovation hub partner Plexal, are scouting emerging cyber talent to form the next cohort of startups to be inducted into the NCSC for Startups program.

Pwn2Own paid out almost $1 million to bug hunters at last week's event in Toronto, but the prize money wasn't big enough to attract attempts at cracking the iPhone or Google Pixel because miscreants can score far more from less wholesome sources.

It's difficult to know the precise extent to which cybercriminals make use of weekends and holidays to launch their attack campaigns; but it is generally accepted that they do.