InfoSecSherpa’s News Roundup for Sunday, December 11, 2022
InfoSecSherpa: Your Guide Up a Mountain of Information!
2 min readDec 11, 2022
Special Latin American Edition. News items from December 1–11, 2022.
- Mastercard Aims to Curb Digital Frauds in Latin America
(NASDAQ, December 1st) - All Eyes on Colombia’s Tech Sector
(Global Americans, December 7th) - Did Brazil DSL Modem Attacks Change Device Security?
(Security Intelligence, December 5th) - LatAm industrial automation, cyber needs fueling US group Nozomi
(BN Americas, December 2nd) - U.S.-Mexico cybersecurity collaboration strengthens Resecurity and Totalsec partnership
(Cision / Yahoo! Finance, December 5th) - Airiam Hires Alan Villaseñor to Build and Manage SOC
(BusinessWire / Airiam, December 6th) - Sygnia Accelerates Growth with Expanded Presence in Latin America and Australia
(BusinessWire, December 5th) - Brazil joins Budapest Convention to fight cybercrime
(Merco Press, December 1st) - Arsat suffers cyber attack ahead of Argentina-Poland game
(Telecompaper, December 6th) - Mergers and Acquisitions Involving Family-Owned Targets
(Latin Lawyer, December 2nd)
Excerpt: “Family-owned and controlled companies are the backbone of Latin American economies.” Context: If you are advising companies in Latin America about Information Security, are you addressing the family-owned companies properly? That kind of oversight can be very different than a non-family-owned institution. Situational awareness!
