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GUEST RESEARCH:  Bitdefender has combined information from openly available sources (OSINT) – including news reports and research – with data we gather by analysing Data Leak Portals (DLPs), websites where ransomware groups post details about their victims to develop our March 2025 Threat Debrief. It’s important to remember that we can't independently verify all of these claims, but we can feel quite confident in the trends we see over time.

A US Government initiative to implement a cyber security certification and labelling program from 2024 named Cyber Trust Mark has been roundly criticised by security industry veteran Robert Graham.

Ninety percent of Australian organisations plan to align their security programs to the Essential Eight, according to a survey conducted at last month's AusCERT security conference by security vendor BeyondTrust.

From time to time, people from Microsoft come up with stupid takes to divert attention from the fact that the products put out by their company are full of security holes. The tech world is chock-full of spin and Microsoft is not reluctant to indulge in it.

GUEST OPINION: Effectively securing an organisation's IT infrastructure from cyberthreats is a complex task, yet there is one simple step that can make an immediate difference: installing software patches.

Secureworks head of threat intelligence APJ Alex Tilley spoke to iTWireTV on cybersecurity basics companies must do - or, in other words, "you're not doing non-sexy cybersecurity right, and here's why."

GUEST OPINION: It's anyone's guess when the next cyber-attack will target your business, but with highly sophisticated malignant actors coming from all corners, the odds are it will be soon.

Patching of vulnerabilities is the security industry's equivalent of thoughts and prayers, a prominent American security expert has said during a debate on the topic "Patching is useless" at a recent online conference named Hack At The Harbor.

Trend Micro says its Smart Protection Network blocked 94.2 billion cyber-threats before they affected the company's consumer, government and business customers during 2021.

The two most serious cybersecurity events of the decade (thus far), the SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange Server hacks were recently viewed by local cyber advisors through the lens of global geopolitics. In “Precursors to cyberwar, or are we already there?” watch as three expert members of the Cybersecurity Advisors Network (CyAN) share their perspectives.

The number of APT groups "exploiting the latest Exchange vulnerabilities grows, with thousands of email servers under siege" according to security company ESET.

Linux patching specialist KernelCare is offering a free patching service for home and non-commercial projects based on the Raspberry Pi.

IT security staff want systems patched promptly, but they're not usually the people who have to do the work.

New product directly addresses customers' needs, allowing IT administrators to update and migrate software, operating systems and PCs while automatically preserving personality preferences and maintaining user productivity and satisfaction.