1 in 4 ANZ orgs have covered up a cyber attack
27 February, 2023 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingSome 25% of security and IT decision-makers from ANZ admit that their organisation has knowingly concealed a cyber attack from the public, research suggests.
The rise of digilantism: we don't need another hero
17 February, 2023 by Roger Spence, Client Director, TesserentTempted to act as 'cyber Batman', seek out cybercriminals and bring them to justice? That's not the role of private enterprise.
Pig butchering scams on the rise
16 February, 2023Sophos has released details of two expansive pig butchering scams operating that directly targeted the organisation's principal threat researcher, Sean Gallagher.
Scam crypto app makes it to Apple App Store
09 February, 2023 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe first fake crypto apps to make it past Apple’s security protocols to list on the Apple App Store have been discovered and detailed by security firm Sophos.
Last year's data breaches shook Australian businesses
08 February, 2023 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingIn the wake of 2022's high-profile data breaches, the majority of Australian business leaders admit to not having adequately invested in cybersecurity.
Why making ransomware payments illegal could backfire
06 February, 2023 by Johnny Yeo, Solutions Architect at ZscalerThe government is considering banning ransomware payments — could the move simply embolden cybercriminals?
Afterpay reduces fraud risk with advanced machine learning
03 February, 2023Buy now, pay later (BNPL) business Afterpay is using the Cloudera Data Platform to run analytics for real-time fraud detection on millions of transactions.
Search leads to cybercriminal scam creator
17 January, 2023Cybersecurity vendor Sophos said it has uncovered the likely offender behind an extensive scheme designed to scam cybercriminals.
Cybercriminals scamming each other out of millions
13 December, 2022 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingA new report from Sophos details a hidden sub-economy involving scammers targeting each other with the scams they also unleash on the public.
Could 2023 be the year of the 'cyberdemic'?
09 December, 2022"Probably", according to Garrett O’Hara, APAC Field CTO at cloud cybersecurity services vendor Mimecast.
Predicting the future of security in 2023 and beyond
08 December, 2022 by DigiCertFrom Quantum to Code Signing, DNS tools to Digital Identity, the complexity of the cybersecurity landscape grows by the day. Here's our predictions for 2023.
Australia tops ransomware target list for the first time
05 December, 2022Bitdefender's November Threat Debrief has been released, including a ransomware report.
Criminals commercialising cybercrime
28 November, 2022The Sophos 2023 Threat Report details how the cyberthreat landscape has reached a new level of commercialisation and convenience for would-be attackers.
Offering targets human element in cybersecurity
15 November, 2022Human Detection and Response (HDR) correlates, identifies and responds to the tens of thousands of detected events related to risky security behaviour.
OAIC data breach report shows key privacy risks
15 November, 2022Organisations must have robust information handling practices and up-to-date response plans, says OAIC.
