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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?
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
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
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 ...
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In The News
Tenable Adds Patch Management To Rapidly Close Security Exposures – Autonomous Patching Streamlines Discovery To Remediation, With Customisable Controls That Prevent Problematic Updates
Tenable®, the exposure management company, today announced the release of Tenable Patch Management, an autonomous patch solution built to quickly and effectively close vulnerability exposures in a unified solution. A strategic partnership and integration with Adaptiva, a global leader in autonomous endpoint management, provides the foundation of the ...
Cordant Partners with Cloud Security Leader Wiz to Enhance Pragmatic Cybersecurity Solutions in Australian Market
Melbourne, Australia 26th November 2024 - Cordant, Australia's leading pragmatic cybersecurity consultancy, today announced a partnership with Wiz, the rapidly-growing cloud security platform that has revolutionised how organisations protect their cloud infrastructure. This collaboration marks a significant milestone in bringing straightforward, ...
Fortinet Elevates Web Application Security and Performance with New Unified Platform
FortiAppSec Cloud consolidates key web application capabilities into a single offering, providing cutting-edge protection, seamless delivery, and centralised management across multi-cloud environments
Rapid7’s Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR) Adds Coverage for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Environments
Rapid7 has expanded its Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR) service to include enhanced support for AWS environments. This brings customers deeper cloud detection and response capabilities by combining cloud native telemetry, AWS security telemetry, and enhanced detections in the Rapid7 Command Platform.
Thales Unveils Data Risk Intelligence to Redefine Data Risk Visibility and Proactive Risk Mitigation
Data Risk Intelligence combines posture and behaviour-based data risk indicators to proactively identify and mitigate risks to sensitive data. First solution uniting the data security capabilities from the Imperva Data Security Fabric and Thales CipherTrust Data Security Platforms to provide highly confident data risk prioritisation with clear ...
More Than 60% Of Australian Employees Admit To Bypassing Cybersecurity Policies To Make Their Lives Easier
Privileged access issues combined with worrisome worker actions compound security risks for organisations
CyberArk Lab research also finds online history can be threat to employers as well as to personal lives
Teradata Introduces ‘Rapid-Start’ Generative AI Use Cases with Amazon Bedrock Integration
Teradata VantageCloud customers on AWS can immediately start implementing Gen AI use cases to fast-track business value and accelerate ROI
Trustwave Launches Two New Microsoft Security Accelerators to Increase Security Maturity and Drive Cost Savings
December 4, 2024 – Trustwave, a leading cybersecurity and managed security services provider, has announced the launch of two new Microsoft Security Accelerators designed to help organisations quickly improve their security maturity and identify cost-saving opportunities. These accelerators – the Accelerator for Microsoft Purview and the Accelerator ...
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