Privacy awareness and concern is increasing amongst Australian SMBs in the wake of Optus and Medibank attacks, but action is too low. One in four local small businesses would fail to survive the financial or reputational damage of a privacy breach. One in four do not understand what is expected of their business as part of recent Privacy Act changes.
Flashpoint Report Shows Australia Among Most Targeted Countries for Ransomware Attacks in July
Flashpoint has published its July Cyber Threat Intelligence Index which shows Australia was in the top 10 countries for ransomware attacks last month.
Zscaler VPN Report Finds Nearly Half of Organizations Are Concerned About Enterprise Security Due to Unsafe VPNs
Insecure VPNs, Email, and End User Devices Identified as Primary Attack Vectors, Stressing the Need for a Zero Trust Architecture
Dragos Industrial Ransomware Attack Analysis: Q2 2023
Quarter two 2023 proved to be an exceptionally active period for ransomware groups, posing significant threats to industrial organisations and infrastructure, according to Dragos’ latest ransomware attack analysis.
Proofpoint: 78% of Australia’s Banks Are Not Proactively Blocking Fraudulent Emails
Proofpoint, Inc., a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today released new research identifying that almost 4 out of 5 Australian-owned authorised deposit-taking institutions and foreign subsidiary banks are lagging behind on basic cybersecurity measures, subjecting customers, staff and stakeholders to a higher risk of email-based impersonation attacks.
The Education Sector Reports the Highest Rate of Ransomware Attacks, Sophos Survey Finds
While the Sector Reports One of the Highest Rates of Ransom Payments, Doing So Significantly Increased Recovery Costs and Time
Decoy Dog is No Ordinary Pupy – Infoblox Reveals Shift in Malware Tactics After Initial Discovery
Infoblox Inc., the company that delivers a simplified, cloud- enabled networking and security platform for improved performance and protection, today published a second threat report with critical updates on “Decoy Dog,” the remote access trojan (RAT) toolkit they discovered and disclosed in April 2023.
Forescout Uncovers The 5 Riskiest Connected Devices in 2023: IT, IoT, OT, IoMT
Since 2020, Forescout Research – Vedere Labs has been tracking the riskiest devices on organisations’ networks. In 2020, Forescout released the first Enterprise of Things Security Report, followed in 2022 with the Riskiest Connected Devices in Enterprise Networks report.
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