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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 ...

Businesses Require New Techniques to Combat Phishing

The Verizon 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report provides valuable insights into emerging phishing threats. CISOs, IT managers and cybersecurity consultants should be aware of new phishing techniques this report raises in order to better manage the associated risk they bring. The most exciting finding in this year's report is the increased ...
Is the Cybersecurity of Your Business PEXA Ready?

Is the Cybersecurity of Your Business PEXA Ready?

You may have read about the highly publicised PEXA fraud which was reported whereby a Melbourne family was left homeless. As it transpired, the family’s conveyancer had their email hijacked by a cybercriminal. This lead to the conveyancer’s PEXA account being compromised and ultimately the theft of $250,000 by the criminal misdirecting settlement ...
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CrowdStrike and AARNet Partner to Bring Industry-Leading Managed Detection and Response to Australia’s Research and Education Sector

CrowdStrike and AARNet Partner to Bring Industry-Leading Managed Detection and Response to Australia’s Research and Education Sector

Expanded managed services partnership provides 24/7 MDR powered by Falcon’s AI-native technology and elite cyber expertise to stop advanced threats 
AI-Powered Defence at the Edge: Check Point Launches New Branch Office Security Gateways with 4x Faster Threat Prevention Performance

AI-Powered Defence at the Edge: Check Point Launches New Branch Office Security Gateways with 4x Faster Threat Prevention Performance

Optimised for SD-WAN, New Quantum Force Branch Office Firewalls deliver protections against growing attacks on branch offices and superior end user experience
Check Point Accelerates Threat Detection and Response with AI-Powered Security Management for the Modern Enterprise

Check Point Accelerates Threat Detection and Response with AI-Powered Security Management for the Modern Enterprise

Next-generation Smart-1 Management Appliances boost efficiency delivering 2X expansion in managed gateways and AI-powered tools for automation, policy insights, and orchestration
Bitdefender Enhances Global Channel Program for Resellers and Managed Service Providers

Bitdefender Enhances Global Channel Program for Resellers and Managed Service Providers

Bitdefender today announced major enhancements to its Partner Advantage Network – Reselling Channel Partner Program and Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner Program. The updates are designed to maximise revenue opportunities, streamline partner engagement, and further strengthen support for the channel and MSP community. The program introduces a new ...
SailPoint Research Highlights Rapid AI Agent Adoption, Driving Urgent Need For Evolved Security

SailPoint Research Highlights Rapid AI Agent Adoption, Driving Urgent Need For Evolved Security

SailPoint, Inc. . (Nasdaq: SAIL), a leader in unified identity security for enterprises, today released a new research report titled ‘AI agents: The new attack surface. A global survey of security, IT professionals and executives.’ The report highlights an urgent need for improved identity security as AI agents gain widespread adoption.
69% of Organisations Breached by Ransomware Over Past Year, Delinea Report Finds

69% of Organisations Breached by Ransomware Over Past Year, Delinea Report Finds

AI accelerates both attacks and defences, but critical security gaps persist SYDNEY, May 29, 2025 - Delinea, a pioneering provider of solutions for securing human and machine identities through centralised authorisation, has unveiled new research highlighting how ransomware attacks have continued to surge over the past year, despite fewer victims ...
Check Point to Acquire Veriti to Transform Threat Exposure Management and Reduce Organisations’ Cyber Attack Surface

Check Point to Acquire Veriti to Transform Threat Exposure Management and Reduce Organisations’ Cyber Attack Surface

Veriti is the first to introduce pre-emptive exposure management delivering automated remediation of threat exposure risks and collaborative threat prevention across complex multi-vendor environments 
Trend Micro Offers Enterprise AI Security Platform Across Data in Cloud Or On Premises

Trend Micro Offers Enterprise AI Security Platform Across Data in Cloud Or On Premises

AI security solution integrated with NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design  SYDNEY, MAY 20, 2025 – Global enterprise cybersecurity leader Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704) today announced its bringing powerful and simplified security capabilities to NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design, helping organisations worldwide ...
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