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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
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
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!)
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?
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 ...
Cybersecurity Tips for Conveyancers and Solicitors Using PEXA
You may have heard of the recent cybercrime perpetrated against the Australian e-conveyancing platform PEXA. A former MasterChef finalist and her family had $250,000 stolen from a property purchase transaction on the platform at settlement. In the following article, we explain the likely ways the fraud occurred and what practical things you can do ...
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In the News
Check Point Software Technologies Named a Leader in Zero Trust Platforms, Q3 2025 Evaluation
Check Point’s Hybrid Mesh Security Platform recognised for plan to deliver AI-driven capabilities to automate network security functions
Kyndryl Partners With Microsoft to Launch the Kyndryl Microsoft Acceleration Hub to Drive Customer Innovation and Digital Transformation
New Hub combines Kyndryl Consult expertise with Microsoft technologies to enable AI-first consulting capabilities and engagements
Semperis 2025 Purple Knight Report Reveals Persistent Security Gaps in Hybrid Active Directory and Entra ID Environments
2025 Purple Knight Report Reveals Persistent Security Gaps in Hybrid Active Directory and Entra ID Environments
The new report uncovers identity security risks, low initial assessment scores, and urgent need for remediation across Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta—but substantial score improvements for users applying Purple Knight’s expert ...
Crypto Wallets Continue to Be Drained in Elaborate Social Media Scam
Overview
Continued research by Darktrace has revealed that cryptocurrency users are being targeted by threat actors in an elaborate social engineering scheme that continues to evolve. In December 2024, Cado Security Labs detailed a campaign targeting Web 3 employees in the Meeten campaign. The campaign included threat actors setting up meeting ...
Latest DigiCert Survey Finds Manual Processes Expose Organisations to Outages, Compliance Failures, and Six-Figure Losses as Certificate Volumes Climb
Research highlights certificate mismanagement is draining enterprise resources and eroding digital trust
Operational Technology Cybersecurity Risk Elevates Within Executive Leadership Ranks
More than half (52 per cent) of organisations report that the chief information security officer/chief security officer is responsible for operational technology, up from 16 per cent in 2022, while 95 per cent of organisations report that the C-suite is responsible for operational technology, up from 41 per cent in 2022
Bitdefender Forges Partnership With Creators Guild of America
Bitdefender has announced a strategic partnership with the Creators Guild of America to provide digital security solutions tailored for online content creators. The partnership aims to raise awareness of the critical need for creators to protect their digital identities, content, and personal information from increasingly sophisticated and costly cyber ...
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Tenable Research Warns of Critical AI Tool Vulnerability That Requires Immediate Attention [CVE-2025-49596]
Tenable Research has identified a critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-49596) in Anthropic's widely adopted MCP Inspector, an open-source tool crucial for AI development. With a CVSS score of 9.4, this flaw leverages default, insecure configurations, leaving organisations exposed by design. MCP Inspector is a popular tool with over ...
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