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Universal core cyber skills needed to bolster Australia’s online defences

Universal core cyber skills needed to bolster Australia’s online defences

Following outgoing Telstra CEO Andy Penn’s call for “greater government investment in education to strengthen ...

Mon, 29 Aug 2022
Aussie fintech Fortiro and FileInvite team up to mitigate ‘liar loans’ and fraud

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 ...

Mon, 29 Aug 2022
Ransomware attacks have increased 24% in the last quarter

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 ...

Mon, 29 Aug 2022
Report reveals ransomware attacks on healthcare and financial sectors tripled

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, ...

Mon, 29 Aug 2022
NSW Police charge man over fraudulent cryptocurrency accounts

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 ...

Fri, 26 Aug 2022
Hackers leveraging on AWS apps to build phishing pages

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 ...

Fri, 26 Aug 2022
Android Trojans and domain name attacks top July cyber threat trends

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.

Fri, 26 Aug 2022
How to improve your organisation’s cyber security maturity

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 ...

Pieter Danhieux Fri, 26 Aug 2022
Why more attention needs to be given to the security of IIoT

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 ...

Mark Lukie Thu, 25 Aug 2022
1 in 5 Aussies encounter scams on a daily basis, new research reveals

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 ...

Thu, 25 Aug 2022
Cyber security threats ‘need very real action’ following overhaul

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 ...

Lauren Croft Thu, 25 Aug 2022
Nation-state threat actors exploit machine identities to run cyber attacks

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 ...

Thu, 25 Aug 2022
ANZ organisations incapable of breach detection within 90 days, report reveals

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 ...

Thu, 25 Aug 2022