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Why You Need Professional Email Hosting for Your Business

Your business deserves a reliable, safe and secure email service provider so that you can focus on your clients and not have to worry about cyber attacks. Email is an essential service for every business. However, not all email service providers are created equal. Some email services are more susceptible to hacking and data loss than others. In this ...
How To Prevent Payment Redirection Fraud At Your Conveyancing Practice

How To Prevent Payment Redirection Fraud At Your Conveyancing Practice

Enforcing Two-factor Authentication (2FA) on your email service is a robust security measure that can prevent payment redirection fraud. In the following article, we demonstrate how you can enable this powerful security feature on your corporate email accounts hosted on Office 365 or G Suite. By making this simple change, you can reduce the chances of ...

How to Protect Your Legal Practice from Payment Redirection Fraud

This article is aimed at helping legal professionals who commonly provide payment instructions for trust accounts and other transactions over email. Providing payment instructions over email puts you at risk of payment redirection fraud. In this article, you will learn why Australian legal professionals are high-value targets for cybercriminals and why ...
Is Your Conveyancing Practice Secure From Hacking?

Is Your Conveyancing Practice Secure From Hacking?

The recent media reports of fraud against conveyancing practices suggest that professionals should be taking measures for protecting their businesses from cyber attacks. Cybercriminals primarily rely on an email-based attack known as phishing to help commit payment redirection fraud. A recent Telstra Security Report found that the most common ...
Cheap Shots are taking Creep Shots of Women

Cheap Shots are taking Creep Shots of Women

Do you ever get that feeling that’s someone is watching you, or you are being followed? It freaks me out. Now, how do you feel when some random person has taken a photo of you? Well, sometimes you can never be too sure about what the case is. But, what happens when the creep shots take cheap shots? Yep, a whole new level we are heading to. What is ...
Australian Companies Urged to Consider Pros and Cons of Paying a Ransom

Australian Companies Urged to Consider Pros and Cons of Paying a Ransom

The conversation is becoming more commonplace about whether companies should pay in a ransomware attack. Unfortunately, these crippling cyber-assaults are taking place too frequently across the globe, with targets and outcomes getting more consequential and more threatening for our workforce and communities. Cyber-criminals and other nefarious actors ...
A Scam Which Preys on Vulnerable People (and Works!)

A Scam Which Preys on Vulnerable People (and Works!)

This phishing campaign is a prime example of how heartless cybercriminals prey on vulnerable people. Our experts have been made aware of a new email extortion scheme targeting Australians. The email suggests that a backdoor has been installed on the victim's computer and the user was caught red-handed while pleasuring him or herself. The scammers then ...

Email Impersonation Scams: What You or Your IT Staff Can Do to Protect Your Business

A major cyber threat to Australian businesses is email-based impersonation scams targeting key personnel. The scheme involves cybercriminals mimicking business owners and executives through the use of phishing emails. Criminals typically pose as personnel in positions of authority and ask victims to perform money transfers, pay invoices, or to send the ...
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Ip.Glass Supports Major Infrastructure Transformation At Hornsby Shire Council With Fortinet Secure SD-WAN Solution

Ip.Glass Supports Major Infrastructure Transformation At Hornsby Shire Council With Fortinet Secure SD-WAN Solution

June 04, 2025 – Ip.Glass, a leading provider of innovative cybersecurity and networking services, has successfully delivered a complete network transformation for Hornsby Shire Council using Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN and SD-Branch solutions. The project represents a significant step forward in the Council’s strategy to improve connectivity, enhance ...
Nintex Survey Finds Australian IT Leaders Embrace AI as SaaS Sprawl Undermines Productivity

Nintex Survey Finds Australian IT Leaders Embrace AI as SaaS Sprawl Undermines Productivity

Melbourne, Australia – June 5, 2025 – Australian mid-market organisations are contending with a growing software sprawl crisis, with 49% juggling between 51 and 200 SaaS tools, and half adding a new tool every two to four weeks. To overcome this, Australians are turning to AI, with 92% deploying AI to detect redundant apps, automate integrations, and ...
Optus Announces Appointment Of New Chief Security & Risk Officer

Optus Announces Appointment Of New Chief Security & Risk Officer

Optus has today announced the appointment of Pieter van der Merwe who will be joining Optus as Chief Security & Risk Officer. Optus CEO Stephen Rue said in a message to all employees that the appointment would enable the company to further strengthen and protect the security of Optus and its customers. Pieter is currently the Chief Security ...
Fastly Research: Commerce Industry Attacks Double As Bots Represent More Than One-Third Of All Traffic

Fastly Research: Commerce Industry Attacks Double As Bots Represent More Than One-Third Of All Traffic

Sydney, 4 June 2025 -  Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), a leader in global edge cloud platforms, today released its Q1 2025 Threat Insights Report, providing an overview of security trends, attack vectors and threat activity across the application security landscape. The report reveals that the commerce industry’s attack volume doubled from 15% in Q1 2024 to ...
University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and Kyndryl launch Cyber Resilience Program Following Successful Pilot for Not-for-profits

University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and Kyndryl launch Cyber Resilience Program Following Successful Pilot for Not-for-profits

Kyndryl Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Kyndryl, and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have announced the successful conclusion of the Cyber Resilience Program pilot. This marks a major milestone in its partnership to build cybersecurity skills in Australia’s not-for-profit (NFP) sector. Following the success of the pilot that provided ...
Barracuda Launches AI Cybersecurity Platform BarracudaONE And New Research On Security Tool Sprawl

Barracuda Launches AI Cybersecurity Platform BarracudaONE And New Research On Security Tool Sprawl

Introducing the BarracudaONE™ AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platform Global Survey Finds Security Tool Sprawl Driving Cyber Risk and Overwhelming IT Teams, with 67% of Australian Professionals Managing Too Many Tools SYDNEY, Australia, 4 June, 2025 — Barracuda Networks, Inc., a leading cybersecurity company providing complete protection against complex ...
NinjaOne Completes Acquisition of SaaS Backup and Data Protection Leader Dropsuite

NinjaOne Completes Acquisition of SaaS Backup and Data Protection Leader Dropsuite

NinjaOne, the automated endpoint management platform, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Dropsuite for approximately $270 million USD to help organisations reclaim lost productivity and reduce the risk of ransomware. With the addition of Dropsuite, NinjaOne customers can unify endpoint, server, and SaaS application backup use cases, ...
KBKast Podcast Partners with Vanta as First Exclusive Sponsor

KBKast Podcast Partners with Vanta as First Exclusive Sponsor

Sydney, Australia, June 03, 2025 - KBI.Media is proud to announce a landmark partnership between KBKast, the flagship security podcast for leadership, and Vanta, the leading trust management platform. With well over 300 interviews to date, KBKast welcomes Vanta as its first-ever exclusive sponsor - a major milestone that underscores the podcast’s ...
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