practitioners in the lead-up to the census to test the system for vulnerabilities with DDoS attacks of their own. In 2019, Auth0 launched a private bug bounty program to further reinforce its emphasis on security and ensure that its customers are...

environments. To satisfy growing customer demands across Australia and New Zealand, F5 expanded its global footprint in 2019 by deploying a regional point of presence in Sydney, and over the past several years, F5 has transformed its business and...

most common cyber crime in 2020, with 240,000 victims leading to a loss of US$50 million – this is two times more than in 2019, and 10 times higher than in 2018. Phishing is causing havoc like never before, and this goes to show that email protection is...

but visible in NFTs Money laundering has long been an issue in the fine art world, and it’s not hard to see why. As one 2019 article from the National Law Review points out, art pieces like paintings are easy to move, have relatively subjective prices,...

the police cyber prevent network of students as young as nine deploying DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks from 2019 to 2020. A new UK initiative to divert young people away from criminality has been launched after cyber attacks designed to...

transactions from the banking user’s legitimate device.” Microsoft released a patch for the nine-year-old loophole in 2019. [Related: Conti emerges as growing cyber threat]

cyber-enabled warfare on the modern body politic that upon the release of the French government’s Military Cyber Strategy in 2019, France’s Minister for the Armed Forces Florence Parly argued that already international “cyber warfare has begun”. Indeed,...

founded as an enterprise security company with Google "X". It migrated into Google itself by way of Google Cloud in 2019 as part of the search giant's efforts to expand its enterprise revenues, by expanding the functionality and services around its...

relationship status were included in the logs, of which Facebook – now known as Meta – said was collected via scraping in 2019. May: Colonial Pipeline: If there was ever an example of how a cyber attack can impact the physical world, the cyber attack...

provider in Israel. The report warned that Iran’s ransomware campaign appears to be on the brink of global expansion. In 2019, a report prepared by researchers at the US giant Microsoft Corporation said that Iranian hackers are working to infiltrate...

next 12 months and beyond, the total value of deals across blockchain technology companies will increase significantly. In 2019, we saw investments in blockchain across the Asia-Pacific increase by 83.9 per cent, taking the total market value to $523.8...

swiftly. The report also points to researchers estimating that the average ransom demand increased by 33 per cent since Q4 2019 to nearly $150,000 in Q1 2020. On the higher end, Shipley revealed some entities are seeking out millions of dollars. “I...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...