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Once it was unthinkable to use a credit card online. Today, online commerce is booming, and there's a small army working to ensure this trust is not misplaced. However, recent technological advancements mean digital trust must evolve to keep us protected. And the time to act is now.

COMPANY NEWS: Gigamon, the leading deep observability company, announced a series of breakthrough cybersecurity innovations to the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline in its latest GigaVUE 6.4 software release.

Cisco's adaptive security SSL VPN appliances have been under increased attacks for nearly six months, the security firm Rapid7 says, adding that its staff have observed both credential stuffing and targeted brute-force attacks.

Tanium has released its software bill of materials (SBOM) to help organisations protect their digital assets against external threats stemming from open-source software including OpenSSL 3.

GUEST OPINION: As cybercriminals hunt for new and more sophisticated ways to mount attacks, many are paying close attention to the role played by machine identities.

GUEST OPINION: Malware perils lurk in all directions with DDoS attacks high on the danger list. According to a recent company report, the number of DDoS attacks increased by 37% while DDoS attack volumes increased 26% between 2020 and 2021. In fact, early this year, Microsoft disclosed the largest DDoS attack ever recorded at 3.47Tbps.

GUEST RESEARCH: Zscaler, the leader in cloud security, today announced the release of its annual State of Encrypted Attacks Report, which tracked and analysed over 20 billion threats blocked over HTTPS, a protocol originally designed for secure communication over networks. This year's study found an increase of more than 314% year-over-year across geographical areas that include APAC, Europe, and North America, underscoring the need for a zero trust security model and greater traffic inspection than most companies can achieve with legacy firewall-based security models.

COMPANY NEWS: Radware today launched new encrypted protection capabilities as part of its DDoS protection solution.

GUEST OPINION: For many organisations, creating an effective data protection strategy to support the adoption of remote work and cloud infrastructure is becoming increasingly urgent.

GUEST OPINION: In 2020, the world experienced a cosmic shift in how we live and work, and the infosec industry was no different. Publicly trusted TLS/SSL certificate lifetimes were reduced to one-year, making automation and sophisticated management tools more important than ever.

With Zscaler’s new research showing attackers turning to encrypted attacks during the pandemic, and encryption-based threats growing by 260% this year, not even healthcare was able to avoid the onslaught of SSL-based attacks - but thankfully, there are defences in active use by businesses to protect IT infrastructure, customers and users.

Recent research sponsored by Venafi has uncovered thriving marketplaces for TLS certificates sold individually and packaged with a wide range of crimeware.

IT security company Optic Security Group has launched in the Australian and New Zealand markets following a merger of six entities with combined revenues in excess of $100 million into a newly-formed entity.

Websites can be denied renewal of the certificates that ensure they are secure due to false positives, if Google lists such sites as not being safe for browsing. Visitors could be denied entry if they visit the site using Chrome or a browser built using the Chrome codebase, a Melbourne developer says.

The website of SSL certificate reseller Trustico has gone offline following Thursday's revelations that the company had retained more than 20,000 private keys for certificates which it had obtained from digital certificate provider DigiCert.

Symantec's Encryption Everywhere program aims to see all web sites and their users protected by SSL by 2018.

A new version of the BIG-IP network management software helps secure applications running on premises or in the cloud.

The Apple Watch and the new MacBooks attracted this morning's headlines - but what about the security updates pushed out overnight?

Australian users of the Tableau analytics and visualisation software seem keen to get their hands on the next major release.

Did Lenovo Product Engineer Ashton Kutcher know that the Chinese company he works for has included the notorious SSL-compromising Superfish software on its consumer PCs?