Microsoft declares war on ad-injector ‘with rootkit capabilities’
Time’s up for a pesky browser extension that’s infected 1.2 million Windows PCs with adware since September, according to Microsoft.
Time’s up for a pesky browser extension that’s infected 1.2 million Windows PCs with adware since September, according to Microsoft.
Australian small businesses are reporting cybersecurity breaches at nearly twice the rate of their counterparts in the US but are still proving slow to embrace cybersecurity insurance policies, a small-business security expert has warned as new research suggests SMBs are leaving themselves substantially exposed to damages from unchecked breaches.
David Braue | 28 Oct | Read more
Healthcare organisations are under siege from profit-minded hackers who are utilising common exploits to extract the contents of sensitive databases and sell them for $US20 ($A26) per record or more, according to a new analysis of underground medical-record markets.
David Braue | 27 Oct | Read more
Last Friday’s attack that cut access to dozens of popular websites was likely carried out by kids rather than Russia or another state actor, according to a firm that’s been closely tracking the incident.
Australia may be relatively small by population but it has the most information-security breaches in the Asia-Pacific region, according to new research that has applied a standard metric as a way to compare the relative frequency and severity of security breaches.
David Braue | 22 Sep | Read more
Security experts have warned Australian companies to lock down Windows remote desktop protocol (RDP) access after finding ransomware that uses brute-forced RDP credentials to install file-encrypting ransomware.
"Today we face a different kind of threat. To take us down, it only takes one point of breach. The only question is - will it be you?"
Anthony Caruana | 02 Sep | Read more
“When you look at international organised crime, it’s worth about $1.7 trillion a year. It’s made up six or seven key components. Those are things like counterfeiting, arms trade, drugs, people trafficking and smuggling, the sex trade,” he says.
Anthony Caruana | 31 Aug | Read more
One of the key themes coming from this year’s Risk Management and Security Summit, held by Gartner, is that the battle against cybercrime and data theft is as much about resilience and detecting breaches as preventing them. Having the right tools in place to detect a breach or some sort of unauthorised activity is critical.
Anthony Caruana | 31 Aug | Read more
Empowered by high-level endorsement of their collaboration, Australia's businesses and government bodies need to proactively leverage their growing body of threat intelligence into new defensive and offensive cybercrime strategies, one regional CISO has advised in the wake of his growing engagement with the country's cybersecurity community.
David Braue | 23 Aug | Read more
Only 53% of Australian businesses evaluate the security of cloud services before using them
David Braue | 04 Aug | Read more
Security teams are being consulted too late during digital-transformation efforts, a new survey has found.
David Braue | 26 Jul | Read more
Government support for Australia's emergent cybersecurity industry will provide much-needed impetus for better collaboration amongst the country's many security specialists, one Australian security entrepreneur has argued in the wake of the federal Budget's reassertion of support for the sector.
David Braue | 18 May | Read more
Many cybercriminals can call on an extensive network of specialists for "business" expertise, including people who train and recruit, who launder money, and who provide escrow services, according to a new white paper.
Grant Gross | 18 May | Read more
The cybercrime landscape is changing as threat actors adopt increasingly targeted and sophisticated tools to attack businesses that are undergoing significant change.
Anthony Caruana | 11 May | Read more