Australia releases advice to counter ‘foreign interference’ after university cyber attacks
New guidance stresses the importance of access controls for staff who may be exposed to foreign interference.
New guidance stresses the importance of access controls for staff who may be exposed to foreign interference.
Elective surgery interrupted as hospitals go offline during cyber response
David Braue | 02 Oct | Read more
Cybercrime costs the Australian economy $1 billion per year. In 2019 alone, the ACCC has already received 2,229 phishing scam reports, with women losing more money than men to phishing scams, and Victorians losing more money than their compatriots north of the border.
Nathan Boddam-Whetham, Avanade Australia | 01 Mar | Read more
Anti-phishing features become to the battle for web email account users.
Researchers at Trend Micro and Cisco's Talos have identified a new wave of phishing attacks leveraging CVE-2017-0199, a previously patched remote code execution vulnerability in the OLE (Windows Object Linking and Embedding) interface of Microsoft Office.
Steve Ragan | 16 Aug | Read more
Protecting executives today is about much more than physically shielding them from danger.
Bob Violino | 16 Aug | Read more
A major reshuffle of Australia’s government security structure had an impact on cybersecurity policy bodies, with encryption named a key concern in a move that’s sure to put the government at loggerheads with secure-messaging companies like Malcolm Turnbull favourite Wickr.
David Braue | 24 Jul | Read more
Give this list to your employees, then go phish yourself
Steve Morgan | 19 Jul | Read more
Google makes developers use of OAuth a little more like access to the Play Store.
Dealing with new vulnerabilities quickly is crucial to minimise damage and organisations should maintain crack teams of patching specialists to quickly deal with new vulnerabilities as they arise, one security specialist has advised as reports suggest the surge in malware and phishing attacks continues to grow unabated.
David Braue | 14 Jun | Read more
Even tech firms fall for business email compromise scams.
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has published its first vulnerability disclosure policy which sets out the rules for hackers to avoid a lawsuit or a visit from police.
Austrian aviation parts maker FACC has fired its CEO after the firm lost over €50m ($47m) in a targeted phishing attack in January, which precipitated a dramatic fall in its share price.
Dedicated teams of hackers-for-hire are on the ground in Australia and are throwing everything including the proverbial kitchen sink at business networks to identify and exploit often significant vulnerabilities – before the real bad guys do.
David Braue | 21 Apr | Read more
Not all phishing attacks amount to computer fraud, according to a US insurance firm, which is being sued by bitcoin payments processor BitPay for knocking back its claim.