compliance costs More than two-thirds of financial institutions surveyed indicated they had increased compliance staff since 2019. Labour and training accounted for 54 per cent of average compliance costs while technology, including adding or...

we have nothing to do with politics or special services like the FSB, FBI and so on," LockBit said in its statement. In 2019, the US government sanctioned Evil Corp members as part of an international sting operation, which it described at the time as...

who has been named as shadow assistant minister for defence. Before securing a seat in the House of Representatives in May 2019, Thompson served with the Australian Army’s 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment. During his six years with the ADF from...

that consumers trust the least in relation to their perceived data security practices has substantially changed. In 2019, retail was cited by 50 per cent of consumers as the riskiest sector in terms of data security, followed by travel (40 per cent) and...

of terrorism (CFT), which could save on overall compliance costs. Financial crime compliance costs jumped 18 per cent from 2019 to 2020, largely driven by increased labour costs. However, financial institutions that allocated a larger share of financial...

in the matter. Despite RI Advice commissioning two independent risk assessments and a cyber resilience initiative in 2019, the Federal Court ruled that the practices were too slow to implement. According to Ajay Unni, CEO and founder of StickmanCyber,...

security firm Cybereason. The firm discovered the activity last year but said the hacking campaign dates to at least 2019, and it suggested that reams of data could have been stolen in the interim. The research is an unsettling reminder of the scope of...

information. Few state and territory governments have previously revealed the existence of formal bug bounty programs. In 2019, NSW Customer Service Minister Victor Dominello stated that NSW had created such a program as part of the development of the...

flaws detailed above. CISA and the FBI also published a list of the top 10 most exploited security flaws between 2016 and 2019 and a top list of routinely exploited bugs in 2020 in collaboration with the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) and the...

purchasing processes for agencies and providing more opportunities to AWS partners to work with government customers. In 2019, AWS and DTA signed an agreement to enable Australian federal, state, and territory agencies and departments, as well as public...

for Australian governments and public sector agencies, enabling them to improve services for citizens around the country. In 2019, AWS and DTA signed an agreement to enable Australian federal, state, and territory agencies and departments, as well as...

for adaptive applications. To satisfy the growing demand in Australia and New Zealand, F5 expanded its global footprint in 2019 by deploying a regional point of presence (PoP) in Sydney. Over the past several years, F5 has transformed its business and...

since the 1980s to expedite the digital process, rather than manually sharing, entering and analysing data. Fast forward to 2019, the Australian federal government created a legislation called the Consumer Data Right (CDR), known as “open banking” in...

were submitted for the second round of the ADFCGP program, of which 285 have commenced participation. ADFCGP was launched in 2019, with the final intake expected at the end of 2023. The 12-month online program is delivered by the Joint Cyber Directorate...

our homes, in offices, in factories and warehouses. Ericsson estimates there were 11 billion connected devices worldwide in 2019, and it expects the number to reach 25 billion by the end of 2025. Our homes now have connected security cameras, connected...

solutions that enable affiliate threat actor groups to target mobile devices without the need for homegrown resources. In 2019, Pegasus was used to leverage WhatsApp and infect more than 1,400 user devices, from senior government officials to...

based on 157 million attacks. Automated bot attacks continue to rise; human-initiated attacks rose for the first time since 2019 – Automated bot attacks grew 32 per cent YoY globally, with LATAM showing the highest growth at 455 per cent. The US and...

breach, but how did it impact trust in the ANU? The breach wasn’t publicly acknowledged until October 2018, by which time 2019 enrolments were locked in. And the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 made it difficult to understand...

and power generation throughout Kazakhstan. Dragos is aware of targeted operations that started during the third quarter of 2019 and have intermittently continued throughout 2021. ERYTHRITE is an activity group that broadly targets organisations in the...

Android apps to collect personal and financial information. xHelper - A malicious application seen in the wild since March 2019, used for downloading other malicious apps and display advertisement. The application can hide itself from the user and...