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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 ...
Cybersecurity Tips for Conveyancers and Solicitors Using PEXA

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 ...

How You Can Protect Your Microsoft Exchange Email Service From Cyber Attacks

Microsoft Exchange is a popular choice for providing email services for businesses. Its email features and seamless integration with Microsoft Outlook are undoubtedly convenient and easy to use, but what about security? Microsoft Exchange runs exclusively on Windows Server, which in 2017 was affected by various critical vulnerabilities, putting ...

Report: Australia’s Top Law Firms Lead the Way in the Use of Anti-Phishing Technologies

Most of Australia’s top-tier and mid-tier law firms are well prepared in defending against phishing attacks, Iron Bastion's new study can now reveal. Iron Bastion  have assessed Australia’s top one hundred law firms for their use of anti-phishing technology. The details were gathered from various public data sources to determine whether email services ...
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In the News

Slipstream Cyber Strengthens Leadership Team to Accelerate Growth

Slipstream Cyber Strengthens Leadership Team to Accelerate Growth

Melbourne, Australia – 22 July 2025 Slipstream Cyber, a specialised provider of 24/7 cyber defence and advisory services, today announced two key leadership appointments. The new hires strengthen the company’s capabilities and position it to support expanding its customer base amid increasing demand for expert cyber security services. David Kaplan ...
Barracuda Identifies Increase in ‘Infostealer’ Attacks and Threats Targeting Linux Servers

Barracuda Identifies Increase in ‘Infostealer’ Attacks and Threats Targeting Linux Servers

Barracuda Networks SOC Threat Radar – July 2025
Fortinet Advances Quantum-safe Security to Guard Against Emerging Quantum Threats

Fortinet Advances Quantum-safe Security to Guard Against Emerging Quantum Threats

FortiOS features empower organisations to safeguard highly sensitive data from quantum threats, migrate to post-quantum security, and future-proof their infrastructure with no performance impact 
Cisco and Curtin Mark 10 Years of Innovation With New Regional Innovation Central Presence

Cisco and Curtin Mark 10 Years of Innovation With New Regional Innovation Central Presence

Cisco and Curtin University are celebrating a decade of Innovation Central Perth (ICP), with the partnership now expanding to Curtin’s Singapore Campus where the first international Innovation Central facility will open later this year. Since opening in 2015, ICP has served as a dynamic platform where Cisco engineers, Curtin researchers and students ...
Macquarie Cloud Services Ranked Best Workplace for Graduates in Australia

Macquarie Cloud Services Ranked Best Workplace for Graduates in Australia

Australian cloud leader recognised for career progression, training and development, meaningful work, and culture by graduates on leading careers and education platform
NinjaOne Available on Google Cloud Marketplace

NinjaOne Available on Google Cloud Marketplace

NinjaOne has announced it is available on Google Cloud Marketplace. Now, Google Cloud users can quickly and easily deploy NinjaOne’s cloud-native platform to automate the most cumbersome parts of IT and boost productivity across their organisations. The number of endpoints organisations use is growing dramatically. Managing and securing those ...
Microsoft Sentinel Data Lake: Unify Signals, Cut Costs, and Power Agentic AI

Microsoft Sentinel Data Lake: Unify Signals, Cut Costs, and Power Agentic AI

You can’t protect what you can’t see. Security operations teams have long been faced with the challenge of managing massive, fast-growing datasets, and the cost of scaling traditional data management tools to handle these data volumes has become unsustainable. We’re evolving our industry-leading Security Incidents and Event Management solution (SIEM), ...
Dynatrace Paves the Way to Autonomous Intelligence With Its 3rd Generation Platform

Dynatrace Paves the Way to Autonomous Intelligence With Its 3rd Generation Platform

New Cloud-Native, AI-Observability and Log Management Capabilities Further Simplify Operations and Accelerate Innovation
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