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Five Ways to Identify Phishing Emails

Five Ways to Identify Phishing Emails

As phishing emails come in different shapes and formats, there is no silver bullet to identify a phishing email. However, there is a collection of red flags you should be looking for before clicking on a new message. Here is our up-to-date guide to help you recognise the latest email-based scams. What is phishing? Phishing is a cyber-attack typically ...
Why multi-factor authentication on the PEXA platform leaves security concerns

Why multi-factor authentication on the PEXA platform leaves security concerns

We published an article yesterday explaining why we see problems with the newly-introduced multi-factor authentication security measure on the PEXA electronic conveyancing platform. As a response to the growing number of conveyancing scams, such as the highly-publicised case involving the former MasterChef contestant, PEXA decided to introduce 2FA to ...
How Abandoned Domain Names Pose a Major Cyber Risk to Your Business

How Abandoned Domain Names Pose a Major Cyber Risk to Your Business

Iron Bastion’s cybersecurity expert Gabor Szathmari, recently published novel research on abandoned internet domains, and how they are a significant cyber risk which threatens businesses and in particular the Australian legal profession. What is an Abandoned Domain Name? A domain name is a name you can register to identify your business on the ...
The Alphabet of Electronic Conveyancing

The Alphabet of Electronic Conveyancing

ARNECC, ELN, ELNO, ECNL, PEXA... A recent cyber-attack incident against a property settlement transaction processed through the PEXA network has raised concerns over the transition from the traditional paper-based settlement process to electronic conveyancing. A number of cyber security experts have expressed their concerns about the cyber security ...

Why You Need Professional Email Hosting for Your Business

Your business deserves a reliable, safe and secure email service provider so that you can focus on your clients and not have to worry about cyber attacks. Email is an essential service for every business. However, not all email service providers are created equal. Some email services are more susceptible to hacking and data loss than others. In this ...
How To Prevent Payment Redirection Fraud At Your Conveyancing Practice

How To Prevent Payment Redirection Fraud At Your Conveyancing Practice

Enforcing Two-factor Authentication (2FA) on your email service is a robust security measure that can prevent payment redirection fraud. In the following article, we demonstrate how you can enable this powerful security feature on your corporate email accounts hosted on Office 365 or G Suite. By making this simple change, you can reduce the chances of ...

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 ...
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In The News

Elasticsearch Open Inference API Now Supports Anthropic’s Claude

Elasticsearch Open Inference API Now Supports Anthropic’s Claude

The new integration makes it easier for developers to access Claude models directly from their Anthropic account

Tenable Research Discovers Critical Vulnerability in Microsoft Copilot Studio

Tenable — the exposure management company, has disclosed that its Tenable Research Team has discovered a critical information disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft’s Copilot Studio via a server-side request forgery (SSRF), which allowed researchers access to potentially sensitive information regarding service internals with potential cross-tenant ...
Elastic Recognised as a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for Observability Platforms

Elastic Recognised as a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for Observability Platforms

Recognised for Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute
Elastic Expedites SecOps Tasks with LangChain

Elastic Expedites SecOps Tasks with LangChain

The combined technologies bring AI-driven security innovations to SOC teams
Veeam Ranked #1 In The 2024 Gartner® Market Share Analysis For Enterprise Backup And Recovery Software Report

Veeam Ranked #1 In The 2024 Gartner® Market Share Analysis For Enterprise Backup And Recovery Software Report

Veeam jumps to lead position worldwide as the need for data resilience accelerates
New Fastly Threat Research Reveals 91% of Cyberattacks Targeted Multiple Organisations Using Mass Scanning to Uncover and Exploit Vulnerabilities

New Fastly Threat Research Reveals 91% of Cyberattacks Targeted Multiple Organisations Using Mass Scanning to Uncover and Exploit Vulnerabilities

Additional findings show unwanted bots, short-lived IP addresses and out-of-band domains used by adversaries to commit cybercrime and avoid detection
Interactive Announces The Appointment Of Alex Coates As CEO

Interactive Announces The Appointment Of Alex Coates As CEO

Melbourne, Australia – 21 August 2024: Interactive, one of Australia’s leading IT service providers, today announced the appointment of Alex Coates as Chief Executive Officer, effective from 28th January 2025.  Alex will lead the executive leadership team and drive Interactive’s growth strategy across its Cloud, Cyber and Systems business units, ...
Cloudian and Lenovo Ship AI Data Lake Platform with Breakthrough Performance and Efficiency Powered by AMD

Cloudian and Lenovo Ship AI Data Lake Platform with Breakthrough Performance and Efficiency Powered by AMD

Cloudian and Lenovo today announced the general availability of a new Cloudian HyperStore AI data lake platform that delivers breakthrough levels of performance and power efficiency. Built on Lenovo ThinkSystem SR635 V3 all-flash servers with AMD EPYC™ 9454P processors, the new solution demonstrated performance of 28.7 GB/s reads and 18.4 GB/s writes ...
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