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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

Theย Verizon 2018 Data Breach Investigations Reportย 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 familyโ€™s conveyancer had their email hijacked by a cybercriminal. This lead to the conveyancerโ€™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.ย 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,ย putting ...

Report: Australiaโ€™s Top Law Firms Lead the Way in the Use of Anti-Phishing Technologies

Most of Australiaโ€™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 ย have assessed Australiaโ€™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 ...
Zooming Around

Zooming Around

How is Zoom changing us, and how are we changing Zoom?๐Ÿง With the current state of the world, how reliable and secure is the platform upon which so many now rely?
WHAT IS CPS234 AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR ME?

WHAT IS CPS234 AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR ME?

An increase in the risk of cyber security brings an increase in the publicity surrounding the issue and the regulations governing it. This year we have already seen a number of new regulations coming into effect that will impact the majority of both Australian and international organisations. In March 2018, the Australian Prudential Regulation ...

In The News

Ping Identity Named Leader in Two 2024 KuppingerCole Reports for CIAM and Passwordless

Ping Identity Named Leader in Two 2024 KuppingerCole Reports for CIAM and Passwordless

DENVER, June 4, 2024 โ€” Ping Identity, a leading provider of seamless and secure digital experiences, has been named an overall leader in two 2024 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass reports, including Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) and Passwordless Authentication of Customers. Read KuppingerCole's 2024 Leadership Compass on CIAM โ€œThe ...
JFrog & GitHub Partner to Integrate Best of Breed Platforms, Unifying Software Supply Chain Management & Security

JFrog & GitHub Partner to Integrate Best of Breed Platforms, Unifying Software Supply Chain Management & Security

Fuelled by joint customers and community demand, JFrog and GitHub develop a unified roadmap to enhance DevOps, DevSecOps, MLOps, and AI practices
How AI Integration Positively Impacts Infrastructure Monitoring

How AI Integration Positively Impacts Infrastructure Monitoring

Infrastructure monitoring is the observational and analytical backbone of any IT landscape, giving businesses a comprehensive view of operations that goes beyond simple component surveillance. Given IT infrastructure supports business operations directly, the insights gained from monitoring are critical for maintaining business continuity, improving ...
DroneShield Triples Sovereign Defence R&D and Manufacturing Capacity to $400m With New Global Headquarters

DroneShield Triples Sovereign Defence R&D and Manufacturing Capacity to $400m With New Global Headquarters

DroneShield (ASX:DRO) has opened its new headquarters, tripling its research and development (R&D) and manufacturing capacity to more than AU$400 million in hardware and software per year as the company works to convert a sales pipeline of over $500 million. The new site is located in Pyrmont, NSW, where the companyโ€™s 120 local staff are based. ...
SentinelOneยฎ and Advantage Partner to Deliver Next-Generation of Managed Detection and Response

SentinelOneยฎ and Advantage Partner to Deliver Next-Generation of Managed Detection and Response

Companies unleash power of generative AI to transform security operations across New Zealand
Tenable Research Discovers High Severity Vulnerability in Microsoft Azure – Vulnerability affects more than 10 Azure services and will not be patched

Tenable Research Discovers High Severity Vulnerability in Microsoft Azure – Vulnerability affects more than 10 Azure services and will not be patched

Today, Tenable โ€” the Exposure Management company, has disclosed that its Tenable Cloud Research Team has discovered a high severity vulnerability in Azure that affects more than 10 Azure services, including Azure Application Insights, Azure DevOps, Azure Machine Learning, Azure API Management and Azure Logic Apps. Microsoft does not plan to issue a ...
Palo Alto Networks Recognises Australian Partners at Ignite On Tour Sydney 2024

Palo Alto Networks Recognises Australian Partners at Ignite On Tour Sydney 2024

SYDNEY, Australia, 31 May 2024 โ€“ Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, announced its Partner of the Year Awards at the NextWave Partner Gala Dinner Awards held last night. The awards recognise the outstanding achievements and contributions of Palo Alto Networksโ€™ partners towards securing the digital future of customers against cyber ...
Ansvar Bolsters Risk Management With Interactive

Ansvar Bolsters Risk Management With Interactive

Leading insurance provider Ansvar modernising technology and compliance with Interactive, for enhanced risk management.

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