Local and international cyber security experts on Monday stressed the need for establishing Cyber Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) in financial organisations to check the growing cybercrimes, reports UNB. Speaking at a conference, they also said the country’s banking and financial institutions (FIs) should come forward to establish CSIRT to address the cyber-attacks coming from home and abroad. The conference on ‘CSIRT for Financial Sector...
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On 26 June 2018, Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), Information and Communication Technology Division, Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology (MoPTIT), Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh signed a contract with Norway Registers Development AS in joint venture with NRD CS UAB and Algoritmu Sistemos UAB to provide consultancy services for development of cyber security strategy, assessment of critical infrastructure, provision of self-assessment toolkit,...
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The Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT) today has successfully completed its annual drill to test the response capability of leading Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRT) within the Asia Pacific economies. For the fifth time, APCERT involved the participation of members from the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation – Computer Emergency Response Team (OIC-CERT) in this annual drill. The theme of this year’s...
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EC Council and BGD e-GOV CIRT have recently signed a MoU, with a joint vision to provide ANSI Certified C|CISO certification to Bangladesh Government’s top security professionals across ministries, that are eligible for the course. The attendees of the course will range from business, police, military, paramilitary forces, telecom and other top government officials at leadership positions. Under the scope of the MoU, the courseware...
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The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has officially released its Top 10 most critical web application security risks four years after its last update, in 2013. As in previous years, injection remained the top application security risk, but there has been some shuffling in the ranking, with the appearance of three newcomers — XML External Entities (XXE), Insecure Deserialization and Insufficient Logging & Monitoring....
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