by The Production Team | Apr 21, 2023 | Reports & Predictions, Risk Management, Secure Communications, Security Operations
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – April 20, 2023 –BlackBerry Limited today released the BlackBerry Manufacturing Cybersecurity Study with a warning that outdated and unsupported legacy operating technologies (OT) are exposing substantial vulnerabilities for Australian manufacturers...
by The Production Team | Apr 19, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence, Reports & Predictions
Key Findings Phishing attacks around the world rose nearly 50% in 2022 compared to 2021 Education was the most targeted industry, with attacks increasing by 576%, followed by finance and government, while last year’s top target, retail and wholesale, dropped by 67%...
by The Production Team | Apr 19, 2023 | Endpoint Protection
Amidst an environment of ever-increasing digital threats, growing numbers of organisations are turning to cyber insurance as a means of protecting against the fallout from attacks. These organisations are hoping insurance payouts will help defray the...
by The Production Team | Apr 19, 2023 | Reports & Predictions, Security Operations
SYDNEY, Australia, Apr. 19, 2023 – Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today published Volume 7 of its Unit 42 Cloud Threat Report. The report looked at more than 1,300 organisations. It analysed the workloads in 210,000 cloud accounts,...
by The Production Team | Apr 18, 2023 | Product Development
Lured by the promise of lower operating costs and improved flexibility, many businesses are continuing to increase their usage of software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings. Designed to provide support to almost every function within a business, SaaS platforms remove the...
by The Production Team | Apr 18, 2023 | CAASM, Telco
The introduction of digital devices into just about everything we do is pervasive; smart vehicles, smart watches, smart homes, through to smart cities; IoT is already fundamentally reshaping our daily lives. The foundational infrastructure that allows the...
by The Production Team | Apr 18, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND, April 18, 2023 – F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) has announced the findings of its 2023 Curve of Convenience Report, highlighting Asia-Pacific (APAC) consumers’ perspectives on balancing data sharing in a world of seamless connectivity. The report...
by The Production Team | Apr 14, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Sydney, Australia (14 April 2023) —In a tightening economic market, addressing enterprise performance can help organisations better weather challenges by reducing costs, creating efficiencies, and coming in on schedule while improving overall quality. ISACA’s...
by The Production Team | Apr 13, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
SYDNEY – April 13 2023 – ExtraHop, the leader in cloud-native network detection and response (NDR), today released the 2023 Global Cyber Confidence Index: Cybersecurity Debt Drives Up Costs and Ransomware Risk, which identified a link between cybersecurity debt and...
by The Production Team | Apr 12, 2023 | Assessment & Audit, Reports & Predictions
Intelligence company Recorded Future has released its March 2023 vulnerabilities summary which identifies 5 newly disclosed vulnerabilities with high risk scores, 4 of which are zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft, Adobe, Fortinet and Samsung. 4 of the 5...
by The Production Team | Apr 11, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
SYDNEY, Aust. – 11 April, 2023 – Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today published a new survey report, “The State of Cybersecurity 2023: The Business Impact of Adversaries on Defenders,” which found that 91% of...
by The Production Team | Apr 4, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
4 April 2023 – Wesfarmers OneDigital today announced a five-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support the business’s developing data and digital platform to deliver the best value and services for its customers. The new agreement means AWS will be the...
by The Production Team | Apr 3, 2023 | Reports & Predictions, Telco, Threat Intelligence
SYDNEY, April 3, 2023 — Flashpoint, the globally trusted leader in risk intelligence, today released a new report on the state of Australia’s cyber threat intelligence—a first-of-its-kind data-driven analysis of emerging security and intelligence trends impacting...
by The Production Team | Mar 30, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Veritas Technologies, the leader in secure multi-cloud data management, today announced new research that indicates almost half of Australian consumers (46%) think it’s the responsibility of the organisations that store their information online to delete it when it’s...
by The Production Team | Mar 30, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today published its 2023 State of Cloud-Native Security Report. The report surveyed 200 Australians to better understand their cloud adoption strategies and how they work. With organisations of all...
by The Production Team | Mar 30, 2023 | Reports & Predictions, Zero Trust
CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), the global leader in Identity Security, today announced findings of a global survey that explores trends in Identity Security adoption and the relative maturity of organisations embarking on related strategies. Results show that only 9% of...
by The Production Team | Mar 30, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Research from Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), the customer engagement platform that drives real-time, personalised experiences for today’s leading brands, shows that investment in customer engagement continues to drive revenue growth and help companies meet their financial goals...
by The Production Team | Mar 29, 2023 | GENERAL
The federal government recently announced it will form a new agency, the National Office of Cyber Security, which will be led by a new cyber co-ordinator to manage major incidents across government and to liaise with affected companies during the emergency phase. In...
by The Production Team | Mar 29, 2023 | CAASM, IoT & Robotics
2022 Threat Roundup: The Emergence of Mixed IT/IoT Threats Rapid digitisation means that organisations are now more connected than ever. Most organisations now host a combination of interconnected IT, OT, IoT and sometimes IoMT devices in their networks, which has...
by The Production Team | Mar 29, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
SYDNEY, Australia – March 29, 2023 – Qualys Inc., (NASDAQ: QLYS), a leading provider of cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, today released its 2023 TruRisk Research Report. The report traverses the global number of vulnerabilities detected by Qualys in...
by The Production Team | Mar 27, 2023 | Reports & Predictions, SMB
On a recent SBS Insight episode, Anna Borzi, a guest on the segment, speaks candidly about her thoughts towards privacy and her unwillingness to give away her personal details. Anna’s experience serves as a reminder of the importance of protecting personal...
by The Production Team | Mar 27, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence
Security breaches and incidents are occurring with alarming regularity, with the big names reported in the media, only a fraction of the actual number of beaches taking place. Just this week, Latitude Financial, a major financial services provider operating across...
by The Production Team | Mar 27, 2023 | Security Operations
The capabilities offered by business software applications are constantly growing, but unfortunately so too are the number of vulnerabilities. Once identified by cybercriminals, these vulnerabilities in code can be used to cause disruption and financial losses. Rapid...
by The Production Team | Mar 22, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
A new report from Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, found that ransomware and extortion actors are utilising more aggressive tactics to pressure organisations, with harassment being involved 20 times more often than in 2021, according...
by The Production Team | Mar 22, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cybersecurity leader, today released new research* revealing that while Australian organisations plan to increase cybersecurity budgets in 2023, business leaders hold conflicting views on the function. To read...
by The Production Team | Mar 22, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
BeyondTrust, the worldwide leader in intelligent identity and access security, today announced the release of the 2023 Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report. This report is the 10th anniversary edition and covers a decade of vulnerability insights, providing valuable...
by The Production Team | Mar 22, 2023 | GENERAL
Context: Last week, consumer finance provider Latitude Financial suffered a cyberattack that compromised the personal information of around 330,000 customers in New Zealand and Australia. Most of the stolen data was copies of driver’s licenses or...
by The Production Team | Mar 16, 2023 | Risk Management
ChatGPT is now the fastest-growing app in history, hitting 100 million active users in just two months—way faster than the nine months it took previous record-holder TikTok to reach that mark. According to its developer OpenAI, Australia can also expect access to the...
by The Production Team | Mar 16, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
SYDNEY, Australia, March 16, 2023 Prisma SASE Improves Security Posture and Reduces Complexity According to the Gartner® 2022 Roadmap for SASE Convergence report1, by 2025, 80% of enterprises will have adopted a strategy to unify web, cloud services and private...
by The Production Team | Mar 16, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
– Benjamin Grap – Manoj Ahuje CrowdStrike has discovered the first-ever Dero cryptojacking operation targeting Kubernetes infrastructure. Dero is a cryptocurrency that claims to offer improved privacy, anonymity and higher and faster monetary rewards...
by The Production Team | Mar 16, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
SYDNEY, Australia 16 March, 2023 – SailPoint Technologies, Inc., a leader in enterprise identity security, today unveiled the findings of a new research report analysing the State of Identity in Australia and New Zealand. According to the report, which surveyed...
by The Production Team | Mar 15, 2023 | Data Management
By Karissa A. Breen In recent months, the Australian corporate regulator ASIC has warned that it will be seeking record penalties for breaches of market disclosure, and in particular, those related to cyber attacks. This is an issue of particular concern given...
by The Production Team | Mar 15, 2023 | Risk Management, Secure Communications
While preventing ransomware attacks and data theft tend to be top priorities for corporate IT security teams, awareness is increasing of the growing threats posed by cyber warfare. Cyber warfare attacks are designed to weaken, disrupt, or destroy the...
by The Production Team | Mar 15, 2023 | Security Operations
CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), the global leader in Identity Security, today announced enhancements to Workforce Password Management. CyberArk’s cloud-based enterprise password management solution enables organisations to securely capture, store and manage password-based...
by The Production Team | Mar 15, 2023 | Leadership
A recent global survey conducted by digital trust leader ISACA, Privacy in Practice, sheds light on the top data privacy considerations that organisations are facing in 2023. What is glaringly apparent is that many of these challenges can be successfully avoided,...
by The Production Team | Mar 10, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
A growing body of evidence, outlined in Flashpoint’s State of Cyber Threat Intelligence: 2023 report, demonstrates just how extensively cyber threats are overlapping, intersecting, and relating. The risk intelligence firm examines why these threats—from the online...
by The Production Team | Mar 9, 2023 | Leadership
With economic storm clouds gathering and the ongoing outlook for 2023 becoming increasingly uncertain, many businesses are going through their spending budgets with a fine tooth comb. They realise that making cuts now could help them weather what might lie ahead. ...
by The Production Team | Mar 9, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
SYDNEY, March 9, 2023 – Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cybersecurity leader, today announced a massive 55% global increase in overall threat detections in 2022 and a 242% surge in blocked malicious files, as threat actors...
by The Production Team | Mar 2, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Here’s what you need to know to stay safe from cybercriminals using ChatGPT to create deepfake chatbots, phishing campaigns and malware Sydney, March 2, 2023 – The global research team from Norton, a consumer Cyber Safety brand of Gen™ (NASDAQ: GEN), today released...
by The Production Team | Mar 1, 2023 | SMB
The Album Stealer cyber-attack is initiated by creating fake Facebook profiles that use adult content to lure unsuspecting victims into downloading an album. Once the victim clicks the link, they are redirected to a zip file hosted on Microsoft OneDrive or another...
by The Production Team | Mar 1, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Emerging threat actors and increasing China-nexus activity drive a surge in identity and cloud threats, an uptick in social engineering, and faster breakout times AUSTIN, Texas – February 28, 2023 – CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD), today announced the release of 2023...
by The Production Team | Mar 1, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Rapid7, Inc. today announced the release of its latest Vulnerability Intelligence Report examining 50 of the most notable security vulnerabilities and high-impact cyberattacks in 2022. The Rapid7 2022 Vulnerability Intelligence Report highlights exploitation trends,...
by The Production Team | Feb 27, 2023 | Application Security, Security Operations
Security is shifting even further ‘left’, away from developers and into the design thinking of CX and UX teams, writes Ping Identity’s Head of APAC & Japan Ashley Diffey. For several years now, security has ridden a ‘shift left’ wave. As its strategic...
by The Production Team | Feb 23, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Manufacturing Most Extorted Industry; Email Thread Hijacking Attempts Spike; Time to Ransom Moves from Months to Days ARMONK, NY – – Feb 22, 2023 — IBM Security today released its annual X-Force Threat Intelligence Index finding that although...
by The Production Team | Feb 23, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
84% of codebases contained at least one known open source vulnerability, an almost 4% increase from last year’s findings SINGAPORE | February 23rd, 2023 – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today released the eighth edition of the Open Source Security and Risk...
by The Production Team | Feb 23, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence
23 Feb 2023 6:00 AM Dr Samar Fatima, Research Fellow, Enterprise AI and Data Analytics Hub Topics: Google, Bard, AI, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT “The race for search engine supremacy is getting fierce amongst tech giants with the release of Open AI’s...
by The Production Team | Feb 21, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
The year 2022 has been dubbed the “year of the cyber plague” due to the occurrence of two of the worst breaches in Australian history happening within weeks of each other, with Optus and Medibank falling victim. These attacks are a testament to the...
by The Production Team | Feb 15, 2023 | Critical Infrastructure, Reports & Predictions
In 2022, breakthrough evolution in the development of malware targeting industrial control systems (ICS), scaled ransomware attacks against manufacturing, and geopolitical tensions brought increased attention to the industrial cyber threat landscape, according to the...
