2012, it was demonstrated that every possible permutation of NTLM’s eight-byte hash could be cracked in under six hours. In 2019, an open-source password recovery tool known as HashCat demonstrated that it could crack any eight-byte hash in under two...

for Reserve employers to support the ADF. Other recent calls for ADF Reserve support include Operation Bushfire Assist in 2019-20, which was the impetus for Penten’s Jordan Johnson to join the ADF Reserves – despite having no ADF background. Jordan...

accounted for 31.6 per cent of cyber attacks on businesses last year. This share has skyrocketed from 13 per cent in 2019 – likely spurred by the move to remote working. Vulnerability exploitation (31.5 per cent) was the other common method used to...

businesses to upskill, innovate and export globally as manufacturers of products for space applications,” he said. In 2019, Boeing signed a Statement of Strategic Intent and Cooperation with the Australian Space Agency, committing to invest in R&D,...

focused on innovation in secure mobility, applied artificial intelligence (AI) and tactical communications security. In 2019 and 2020 Penten was awarded Cyber Business of the Year at the Australian Defence Industry Awards. For more information visit...

So great is the threat of cyber-enabled warfare, that upon the release of the French government’s Military Cyber Strategy in 2019, the country’s Minister for the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, argued that “cyber warfare has begun”. Indeed, the strategy...

were the “size of a 10-square-foot box”. The platform utilises machine learning from Project Maven, which hit headlines in 2019 when Google departed the project after a series of concerns. Writing for the Modern War Institute, Richard Schultz and...

focused on innovation in secure mobility, applied artificial intelligence (AI) and tactical communications security. In 2019 and 2020 Penten was awarded Cyber Business of the Year at the Australian Defence Industry Awards. In 2021 Penten won Emerging...

The telco has received over three million donations from customers since launching its Donate Your DataTM program in late 2019, which has enabled thousands of young Australians in need to access the internet, connecting them to opportunities to learn,...

misconfigurations can, unfortunately, become more prevalent. One high-profile example was the Capital One data breach in 2019. The misconfiguration of the Capital One web application firewall, designed to stop unapproved access, enabled a remote...

Carefully crafting the character Marcela (Marcy) Flores, the hackers added their target as a friend on Facebook in late 2019 before kickstarting their online friendship by exchanging messages in November of the following year. The cyber criminals...

focused on innovation in secure mobility, applied artificial intelligence (AI) and tactical communications security. In 2019 and 2020 Penten was awarded Cyber Business of the Year at the Australian Defence Industry Awards. In 2021 Penten won Emerging...

the recent audit has uncovered sustained “non-compliance and significant weaknesses” with the policy, first introduced in 2019, during the 2019-20 reporting period. The audit was focused on examining the departments of Premier and Cabinet, Communities...

a September 2020 attack against a New Jersey facility involving Makop ransomware, which encrypted files; and a March 2019 incident at a Kansas facility when a former employee whose credentials had not been revoked, attempted to remotely access a...

tended to be the realm of nation-state and terrorist threat actors, but now cybercriminals are also getting involved. In 2019, Norway’s Norsk Hydro aluminium smelter company became infected by ransomware, causing it to shut down some products and revert...

focused on innovation in secure mobility, applied artificial intelligence (AI) and tactical communications security. In 2019 and 2020 Penten was awarded Cyber Business of the Year at the Australian Defence Industry Awards. In 2021 Penten won Emerging...

breaches to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), all involving human error since the start of the 2019 financial year through April this year. Employees need to trust they can safely, securely and lawfully share and communicate...

the information vector will be increasingly leveraged as a means to undermine one’s adversary. Indeed, the pair cited a 2019 RAND Report noting that “since Russia and China both value their current status as legitimate and respected members of the...

focused on innovation in secure mobility, applied artificial intelligence (AI) and tactical communications security. In 2019 and 2020 Penten was awarded Cyber Business of the Year at the Australian Defence Industry Awards. In 2021 Penten won Emerging...

skimming groups such as those filed under the umbrella term “Magecart”. These groups struck global targets frequently in 2019 and 2020, but little activity has been reported this year. In September 2020, for example, around 2,000 stores running Magento...