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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 ...
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 ...
In The News
ExtraHop® Reveal(x)™ Available for Purchase in the CrowdStrike Marketplace
Together, ExtraHop and CrowdStrike offer organisations a unique approach to extended detection and response (XDR), correlating network and endpoint data faster and with greater visibility into the threat landscape.
ISACA PROVIDES NEW GUIDANCE TO HELP ORGANISATIONS MANAGE GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RISK
New whitepaper states: ‘AI can quickly amplify a “controlled” risk to a chaotic level, potentially derailing an unprepared business.’
Sha Zhu Pan Scammers Use Fake Cryptocurrency Trading Pools to Steal More Than $1 Million, Sophos Reports
Sophos Details the Story of One Scammed Victim in the Trading Pool Who Lost $22,000 in One Week
F5 Provides Cost and Performance Enhancing Technology in Support of Open Source Telemetry Project
Code contribution improves protocol compression ratio by 2x and reduces bandwidth costs for high-volume telemetry initiatives and AI-driven projects
BeyondTrust Achieves ISO 27001:2022 Certification Demonstrating Commitment to Robust Customer Security
BeyondTrust, the worldwide leader in intelligent identity and access security, today announced the company has achieved ISO 27001:2022 certification.
ExtraHop® Open Sources Machine Learning Dataset to Help Security Teams Detect Malware and Botnet Operations Faster
Aims to expand cybersecurity collaboration, advance innovation across industry
Trustwave releases new SpiderLabs research focused on actionable cybersecurity intelligence for the hospitality industry
Trustwave, a leading cybersecurity and managed security services provider, has released comprehensive research shedding light on the distinctive cybersecurity risks encountered by the hospitality sector.
CyberArk Establishes Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence to Combat Attacker Innovation with Identity Security Innovation
93% of Security Professionals Expect AI-Enabled Threats to Affect Their Organisation
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