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How do You Detect and Respond to Them?
GUEST OPINION By Louis Tague, Vice President, Australia and New Zealand, FireEye: As efforts to adjust to the “new normal” are forcing huge portions of Australians into remote working and outside the relative safety of their employers’ corporate networks, cyber risks have become top-of-mind even for employees who don’t work within security.
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Security
Global content delivery network Akamai has launched Page Integrity Manager, an edge service that can be embedded into Web pages to protect against JavaScript threats such as Web skimming, formjacking and Magecart attacks.
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Security
Global networking company Cisco has acquired the private firm ThousandEyes which monitors network outages for an undicslosed sum.
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Networking
Friday, 29 May 2020 08:49
Toll says employee information accessed by ransomware attackers
By Sam Varghese
Australian logistics and transport firm Toll Group says that a ransomware group that attacked the company recently has accessed files on a corporate server that included employees' information such as names, residential addresses, age or date of birth and payroll information.
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Security
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The ransomware that hit Australian money management firm MyBudget appears to be Mespinoza/Pysa, with the people behind the incident warning that documents from the company would soon be put up on its website, security sources have told iTWire.
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Security
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Thursday, 28 May 2020 23:53
Application software companies face a ‘tough year’ in face of COVID-19 pandemic
By Peter Dinham
The COVID-19 pandemic is slowing the licensing of software products, with application software companies facing a tough 2020, according to global analyst firm GlobalData.
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Business Software
Thursday, 28 May 2020 14:00
Remote and home devices are now the weakest link
By Rohan Langdon Forescout
GUEST OPINION by Rohan Langdon ANZ regional director Forescout: As organisations have had to support remote workforces during the COVID-19 restrictions set by the government, many of them have had to act fast to deliver digital capabilities to their remote workers. Unfortunately, this rapid organisational shift has also increased the risk of bad actors accessing corporate networks.
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Security
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- Forescout
- remote workforces
- home devices
- remote workers
- digital capabilities
- COVID 19
- network exploitation
- businesses
- Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
- Mobile Phones
- Laptops
- tablets
- compliance policies
- device policies
- corporate networks
- VPN access
- virtual private networks (VPN)
- Internet of Things (IOT) devices
- operational technology (OT) devices
- OpenSSL vulnerabilities
- device vulnerabilities
- remote working
- Rohan Langdon
Thursday, 28 May 2020 03:23
COVID-19 pandemic hits programmers’ productivity, well being, study reveals
By Peter Dinham
Software developers are finding their productivity and wellbeing has been hit as a result of COVID-19, according to a new worldwide study led by the University of Adelaide’s School of Computer Science in collaboration with Dalhousie University in Canada.
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Business Software
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- COVID 19 pandemic
- Programmers
- Software developers
- Adelaide School of Computer Science
- Dalhousie University
- Australia
- Canada
- Productivity
- well being
- Health
- Dr Sebastian Baltes
- Associate Professor Paul Ralph
- University of Adelaide
- Software professionals
- Associate Professor Burak Turhan
- Associate Professor Rashina Hoda
- Monash University Faculty of Information Technology
- Empirical Software Engineering
- arXiv
- Employers
- Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 26 May 2020 09:18
Australian customer experience firm Stellar hit by ransomware
By Sam Varghese
Australian customer experience firm Stellar, that also operates across Asia, North America and Africa, appears to have taken a hit from a group of attackers using the NetWalker ransomware that works on Windows systems.
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Security
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Tuesday, 26 May 2020 00:32
WA initiative launched to boost security for Australia’s non-profit sector
By Peter Dinham
A West Australian-led international collaboration is boosting security aimed at helping Australia’s vulnerable non-profit sector defend itself from cyber attacks.
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Security
Tagged under
- Security
- Not For Profit
- Western Australia
- Cyber attacks
- Collaboration
- illuminance Solutions
- Microsoft
- Cyber Check Me program
- Security Research Institute
- Edith Cowan University
- WA AustCyber Innovation Hub
- WA Government’s New Industries Fund
- Nilesh Makwana
- Dr Ian Martinus
- Terranova Security
- Lise Lapointe
- Australia
- Peter Dinham
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