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Why Fighting Fraud Requires a Real-time Foundation

Why Fighting Fraud Requires a Real-time Foundation

Introduction Australia is fast becoming a hotspot for AI-generated cybercrime. Risks that were once theoretical are now costing businesses millions, even as security teams deploy advanced analytics, AI, and new approaches to keep pace. Consider this case in 2024. A finance employee in Hong Kong wired US$25 million during what appeared to be a ...
‘Tis the Season to Stay Secure: Safeguarding Your Business this Festive Period

‘Tis the Season to Stay Secure: Safeguarding Your Business this Festive Period

This holiday shopping season can make or break many Australian businesses. While consumers are shopping for bargains, attackers are searching for vulnerabilities.  The surge in shopping traffic during Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Christmas sales provides cybercriminals with the perfect cover to launch scams and fraud campaigns, exploiting the rise ...
Australia’s Next Insider Threat Might Be an Algorithm

Australia’s Next Insider Threat Might Be an Algorithm

As Australian organisations race to embed AI tools across human resources, finance and operations, they may be missing a critical security fault line. While disgruntled employees or contractors gone rogue remain a concern, the next major data breach is increasingly likely to come from an algorithm that never intended malice.
Safeguarding Australia’s Most Critical Systems: Why Cybersecurity Is a Sovereignty Issue

Safeguarding Australia’s Most Critical Systems: Why Cybersecurity Is a Sovereignty Issue

Byline from Christopher Rule, General Manager of Defence, Security, and Resilence at GME about why cybersecurity is a sovereignty issue, on the back off ASD's recent Cyber Threat Report and ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess's speech on cyber espionage against critical infrastructure no longer being a hypothetical wartime scenario.
Exploring Security In the Context of AI

Exploring Security In the Context of AI

Insights from the Cisco Live! "Redefining Security in the AI Era" Panel The rapid proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across industries has adroitly shifted the paradigm of cybersecurity. At the recent “Redefining Security in the AI Era” panel held at Cisco Live! 2025, senior leaders from Cisco, and partner organisation Logicalis, met to ...
Cybercrime to Hit $10.5 Trillion by 2025, According to Cybersecurity Ventures

Cybercrime to Hit $10.5 Trillion by 2025, According to Cybersecurity Ventures

According to research from Cybersecurity Ventures, cybercrime is projected to cost the world $10.5 trillion annually by 2025 ¹ and attacks, especially ransomware, are now an everyday fact of life. Last week in New York, at a recent press briefing before the official commencement of Commvault Shift, Commvault disclosed that 78% of respondents in the ...
‘We Let the Internet Down Today’ says Co-Founder at Cloudflare

‘We Let the Internet Down Today’ says Co-Founder at Cloudflare

​When Cloudflare goes down, the internet feels it. The recent Cloudflare outage wasn’t just ‘a blip’ - it was an unfortunate failure that took some of the world’s most heavily trafficked services offline. Cloudflare confirmed that a configuration update triggered a failure inside its control plane, specifically within systems responsible for managing ...
Like It or Not, PQC Is the Key (For Now)

Like It or Not, PQC Is the Key (For Now)

Every few months, another “quantum-safe” technology is marketed as the real answer, usually with the claim that post-quantum cryptography isn’t enough. PQC is too new, too slow, too fragile, too unproven. One person I spoke to even described adopting PQC as “shuffling the furniture on a sinking ship,” as if the standards effort itself is the ...
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Network Attacks Outpace Malware in Australia: WatchGuard Q4 2025 Threat Landscape 

Network Attacks Outpace Malware in Australia: WatchGuard Q4 2025 Threat Landscape 

Australian businesses are now facing more network attacks than malware, according to WatchGuard Technologies’ Q4 2025 Threat Landscape. Between October and December, WatchGuard blocked 96,049 network attacks, compared to 8,510 malware attacks. In contrast, the wider APAC region saw far more malware than network attacks, highlighting Australia’s ...
When Your Internet’s “GPS” Starts Lying: Infoblox Threat Intel Uncovers Actor Compromising Routers

When Your Internet’s “GPS” Starts Lying: Infoblox Threat Intel Uncovers Actor Compromising Routers

New Infoblox Threat Intel research reveals how attackers quietly break into routers and redirect their DNS traffic to a shadow DNS network, silently steering users through a hidden web of malicious activity.
Darktrace Delivers Oversight of Enterprise AI Adoption with Launch of Darktrace / SECURE AI

Darktrace Delivers Oversight of Enterprise AI Adoption with Launch of Darktrace / SECURE AI

With Darktrace / SECURE AI, Darktrace is bringing its proven behavioral AI approach to the challenge.
Aon Appoints Alistair Clarke as Head of Specialty In Australia

Aon Appoints Alistair Clarke as Head of Specialty In Australia

Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a leading global professional services firm, has announced the appointment of Alistair Clarke as Head of Specialty for Aon in Australia. Clarke will lead Aon’s national Specialty portfolio, supporting clients across complex, high‑risk and regulated industries including cyber, mergers and acquisitions, trade credit, surety and ...
Quorum Cyber’s 2026 Global Cyber Risk Outlook Reveals Cyber Crime Enters an Industrial Phase

Quorum Cyber’s 2026 Global Cyber Risk Outlook Reveals Cyber Crime Enters an Industrial Phase

The number of newly formed ransomware groups increased by 30% in the year to October 2025 Global vulnerability disclosures rose 21%, surpassing 35,000 Early evidence of a nation-state group using AI agents to automate up to 90% of an intrusion Cybercriminals are increasingly shifting away from encryption toward faster, lower-cost data exfiltration ...
One-click cyber flaw found in CCTV software protecting Australia’s critical infrastructure

One-click cyber flaw found in CCTV software protecting Australia’s critical infrastructure

SUMMARY - New Architecture, New Risks: One-Click to Pwn IDIS IP Cameras As part of our ongoing research into modern cloud-enabled surveillance ecosystems, we turned our attention to a major vendor in the surveillance domain, IDIS. IDIS is a global video surveillance manufacturer headquartered in South Korea. IDIS manufactures an end-to-end solution of ...
Netpoleon and Hack The Box Partner to Strengthen Cybersecurity Skills Across Australia and New Zealand

Netpoleon and Hack The Box Partner to Strengthen Cybersecurity Skills Across Australia and New Zealand

Sydney, Australia – February 3rd – Netpoleon, a leading value-added distributor of cybersecurity and networking solutions across Asia Pacific, has announced a strategic partnership with Hack The Box (HTB) to deliver advanced cybersecurity education and workforce development solutions to organisations across Australia and New Zealand. The partnership ...
Dynatrace Expands Cloud Operations Capabilities with New Integrations Across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

Dynatrace Expands Cloud Operations Capabilities with New Integrations Across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

New cloud-native integrations give enterprises a clearer, unified view across multi-cloud environments
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