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
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...
by The Production Team | Feb 14, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
SYDNEY, February 14, 2023 – Mandiant Inc.today unveiled the findings of its “Global Perspectives on Threat Intelligence” report, which provides new insight into how organisations navigate the increasingly complex threat landscape. The report is based...
by The Production Team | Feb 13, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Sydney, AUSTRALIA – February 13, 2023 – Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, today announced the expansion of its TruRisk platform to serve the needs of both large enterprises and...
by The Production Team | Feb 13, 2023 | Risk Management, Zero Trust
Ask a group of IT security professionals to give their opinion on zero trust and you’re likely to receive a range of different responses. Some see it as little more than the latest industry fad, while others consider it a ‘must have’ strategy that can aid the battle...
by The Production Team | Feb 13, 2023 | Leadership
When a business is seeking to improve its level of cybersecurity, attention tends to be placed on selecting the best possible tools and services. Comparative evaluations are conducted, and decisions made about what measures will deliver the best bang-for-buck. ...
by The Production Team | Feb 9, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
SYDNEY – February 9, 2023 – ExtraHop, the leader in cloud-native network intelligence, today released findings from a new report that examines extended detection and response (XDR) adoption in enterprises. The global study highlights the successes, barriers,...
by The Production Team | Feb 9, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
SYDNEY, Feb. 9, 2023 – A new survey conducted online among 1,006 adults 18+ in Australia by The Harris Poll on behalf of Norton, a consumer Cyber Safety brand of GenTM (NASDAQ: GEN), uncovered that over half of Australian respondents (55%) who are actively using or...
by The Production Team | Feb 1, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Spear phishing attacks are often used as an initial attack vector and ransomware infection is often the final stage of the kill chain. For this report, we analysed malware detections collected in December 2022 from our static anti-malware engines. Note: we only count...
by The Production Team | Feb 1, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
February 1, 2023 — Flashpoint, the globally trusted leader in risk intelligence, today released a new report on the role of open-source intelligence (OSINT) in the Russia-Ukraine war. As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches the one-year mark, Flashpoint...
by The Production Team | Jan 24, 2023 | Leadership
As we begin 2023, economic uncertainty looms large. Many organisations continue to invest in digital transformation but with rising inflation and global conditions impacting bottom lines, leaders in APAC will have to make intelligent investments in technology that...
by The Production Team | Jan 24, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Sydney, Australia (23 January 2023) – A web of complex and ever-evolving data privacy regulations – including strengthening of Australia’s online privacy legislation – is having an impact, with less than half of respondents in Australia and New Zealand...
by The Production Team | Jan 16, 2023 | Reports & Predictions, Sustainability
New research from Mastercard launched today reveals an organisation’s performance in diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I), security and sustainability play a critical role in consumer purchasing decisions. The research reveals that Australians are more likely to...
by The Production Team | Jan 12, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
BENGALURU: Data gathered by CloudSEK’s contextual AI digital risk platform XVigil show that the number of attacks targeting the government sector has increased by 95%* in the second half of 2022, as compared to the same period in 2021. India, USA, Indonesia, and China...
by The Production Team | Dec 26, 2022 | Reports & Predictions
CloudSEK’s BeVigil, the world’s first security search engine for mobile apps, uncovered about 50% of the analyzed (600) apps on the Google play store, leaking API keys of three popular transactional and marketing email service providers; Mailgun, MailChimp, and...
