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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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Bitdefender Launches Comprehensive Cybersecurity Advisory Services for Businesses

Bitdefender Launches Comprehensive Cybersecurity Advisory Services for Businesses

New Offerings Including Cybersecurity Advisory Retainer, Risk/Compliance Assessments and Expert-Led Strategic Guidance Enhance Cybersecurity Posture for Organisations
Sophos Launches New Partner Program to Drive Enhanced Growth, Profitability and Market Advantage for Partners

Sophos Launches New Partner Program to Drive Enhanced Growth, Profitability and Market Advantage for Partners

Sophos has launched a new Sophos Partner Program, unlocking multiple opportunities for partners to accelerate growth, deliver industry-leading cybersecurity solutions and stand out in an increasingly competitive market. The new program brings together Sophos’ and Secureworks’ global partners into one integrated, high-performance ecosystem and builds ...
DataDog Bolsters A/NZ Presence With Roz Gregory Appointment

DataDog Bolsters A/NZ Presence With Roz Gregory Appointment

Gregory to steer multi-year growth plans following strong local expansion and opening of Datadog’s first Australian data centre presence
Elastic Delivers New ES|QL Features for Cross-Cluster Scale, Data Enrichment, and Performance

Elastic Delivers New ES|QL Features for Cross-Cluster Scale, Data Enrichment, and Performance

New capabilities enhance ES|QL with production-ready lookup joins, cross-cluster query execution, observability, and over 30 performance optimisations
Check Point Software Leads Email Security Rankings in 2025 GigaOm Radar Anti-Phishing Report

Check Point Software Leads Email Security Rankings in 2025 GigaOm Radar Anti-Phishing Report

Check Point stands out for its advanced phishing and malware prevention capabilities, driven by innovations like Infinity AI Copilot and a forward-looking security roadmap
Digital Resilience Launches SecMatters

Digital Resilience Launches SecMatters

A New Model for Client-Led Security Operations
Trend Micro Warns of Thousands of Exposed AI Servers

Trend Micro Warns of Thousands of Exposed AI Servers

Latest research reveals mounting infrastructure-level risks from diverse components
Nozomi Networks Labs Report Finds Australia the Fourth Most Targeted Country

Nozomi Networks Labs Report Finds Australia the Fourth Most Targeted Country

The latest Nozomi Networks Labs OT & IoT Security Report released today finds Australia the fourth most targeted country. The report assesses the operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) threat landscape to provide insights into how industrial organisations and critical infrastructure are being targeted by cyberattacks. Leveraging a ...
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