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Following outgoing Telstra CEO Andy Penn’s call for “greater government investment in education to strengthen Australia’s cyber protections”, global software company ...
• Thu, 18 Sep 2025
Aussie fintech Fortiro and FileInvite team up to mitigate ‘liar loans’ and fraud
To provide real-time document verification and fraud detection, Australian fintech Fortiro has teamed up with FileInvite with the aim of automating the loan application ...
• Mon, 29 Aug 2022
Ransomware attacks have increased 24% in the last quarter
Despite observing a decline in ransomware attacks in Q4 2021 and Q1 2022, Avast researchers report ransomware attacks are increasing globally once again.
Report reveals ransomware attacks on healthcare and financial sectors tripled
Barracuda researchers have found the number of ransomware attacks have increased year-over-year across the education, municipalities, healthcare, infrastructure, and ...
NSW Police charge man over fraudulent cryptocurrency accounts
NSW Police Cybercrime Squad detectives have charged a man over allegedly using multiple fraudulent identities to open cryptocurrency accounts online.
• Fri, 26 Aug 2022
Hackers leveraging on AWS apps to build phishing pages
Avanan researchers have found that hackers are taking advantage of the site’s legitimacy by building phishing pages on the AWS platform to steal credentials.
Android Trojans and domain name attacks top July cyber threat trends
In July, Bitdefender identified 205 ransomware families as part of the company’s August Bitdefender Threat Debrief.
How to improve your organisation’s cyber security maturity
Faced with a constantly evolving threat landscape and a shortage of skilled staff, many organisations are struggling to improve the overall maturity of their in-house ...
Pieter Danhieux • Fri, 26 Aug 2022
Why more attention needs to be given to the security of IIoT
When it comes to IT security, the majority of effort tends to be focused on the systems, applications and data that sits at the centre of organisations. These resources ...
Mark Lukie • Thu, 25 Aug 2022
1 in 5 Aussies encounter scams on a daily basis, new research reveals
Avast research has revealed that three-quarters of Aussies have experienced a spike in attempted scams in the last 12 months, and one in five (19 per cent) have been ...
• Thu, 25 Aug 2022
Cyber security threats ‘need very real action’ following overhaul
With cyber crime reports on the rise, the Labor government has revealed an overhaul of the previous cyber security strategy, focusing on increased education and tougher ...
Lauren Croft • Thu, 25 Aug 2022
Nation-state threat actors exploit machine identities to run cyber attacks
Venafi research has found that 65 per cent of Australian organisations have changed their cyber security strategy as a direct response to the conflict between Russia and ...
ANZ organisations incapable of breach detection within 90 days, report reveals
Fortinet has uncovered that less than 49 per cent of organisations in Australia and New Zealand were incapable of detecting a security breach within 90 days.
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