Displaying items by tag: Security threats

According to new research by the cybersecurity company NordVPN, over 351 million malware incidents have been recorded, emphasising the “growing cybersecurity threat” in Australia. 

GUEST OPINION:  Radware has issued a threat advisory highlighting both Pro-Russian and Pro-Palestinian hacktivist campaigns targeting 39 websites of Australian government institutions, and transportation, financial, legal, education and insurance entities.

Microsoft 365 Suite is widely used, offering a range of applications to meet various needs. Protecting the data within Office 365 applications is important, and businesses need a robust backup plan to safeguard critical data against accidental data deletion, security threats, and ensure business continuity and compliance.

GUEST OPINION by Chris Fisher, Head of Security Engineering APJ Vectra AI : Security breaches and incidents are occurring with alarming regularity, with the big names reported in the media, only a fraction of the actual number of beaches taking place. Just last week, Latitude Financial, a major financial services provider operating across Australia and New Zealand, has released details of a cyber attack and data breach that has impacted approximately 14 million of their customers. If we are to keep our people and systems safe, we must adopt an ‘not if, but when’ mindset and take steps to improve clarity of understanding and efficiency in catching and responding to threats.

GUEST OPINION by Chris Fisher, Head of Security Engineering APJ Vectra AI : Security breaches and incidents are occurring with alarming regularity, with the big names reported in the media, only a fraction of the actual number of beaches taking place. Just last week, Latitude Financial, a major financial services provider operating across Australia and New Zealand, has released details of a cyber attack and data breach that has impacted approximately 14 million of their customers. If we are to keep our people and systems safe, we must adopt an ‘not if, but when’ mindset and take steps to improve clarity of understanding and efficiency in catching and responding to threats.

Businesses are confronting the dual challenge of declining or stagnating cybersecurity budgets and escalating and increasingly complex threats in the face of economic turmoil, according to a new survey of global security executives.

Global software company Palantir Technologies has announced that the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) has renewed its partnership for the ongoing delivery of an intelligence data analysis platform.

The cybersecurity threat landscape has continually evolved during recent years, and there is no sign this will change any time soon, according to one security firm which cautions that security teams need to understand that strategies and techniques that may have worked well in the past may not provide effective protection in the future.

GUEST OPINION by Joanne Wong, Vice President International Marketing – APJ and EMEA at LogRhythm: They’ve been a constant focus for IT security teams for years, however the number of ransomware attacks experienced by organisations around the world continues to climb.

Rapid digitisation has forced fashion brands to reimagine how shopping in the digital world takes place, but a more interconnected retail experience has increased the number of cyberattacks on fashion businesses in Australia, according to exposure management company Tenable.

Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has announced it is helping to tackle the growing threat of cyber attacks facing Australia by providing free research and development support to businesses working in the cyber security sector.

GUEST OPINION: Fileless attacks are an advanced kind of malware that rank among today's most dangerous security threats.

Businesses across Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) continue to be targeted by cybercriminals as technology advances and attacks become increasingly sophisticated, according to security company Fortinet.

Deep tech cybersecurity start-up Tide Foundation is claiming it is curing the cyber breach pandemic with the “radical idea” of delivering 'cyber herd immunity' to any organisation.

FS-ISAC, the global cyber intelligence sharing community solely focused on financial services, says that large scale threats resulted in record-breaking peaks of intelligence sharing by financial firms across all regions from August 2020 to August 2021, including the Asia Pacific region, North America; Latin America; Europe, UK, Middle East and Africa.

Email mailboxes at thousands of organisations have been hit by more than 12 million spear phishing and social engineering attacks between May 2020 and June 2021, according to a new report on email security.

Open-source software code repository and collaboration site GitHub has announced the hiring of former US National Security Agency (NSA) lead Jacob DePriest as VP, Security Operations, to head up its Security Operations team under CSO Mike Hanley as part of continued investments in security.

GUEST OPINION by Glen Maloney, ANZ Regional Sales Manager at ExtraHop:  First released in 2013, the MITRE ATT&CK framework is a global knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques designed to help organisations stay one step ahead of possible security threats.

Independent Study finds LogRhythm customers experience US $3.1 million in benefits over three years, including faster investigation and resolution of security incidents

COMPANY NEWS: LogRhythm, the company powering today’s security operations centres (SOCs), announced findings from a newly published Total Economic Impact study conducted by Forrester Consulting. The Total Economic Impact Study of the LogRhythm Platform revealed that organisations using the platform realise an average return on investment (ROI) of 258% over a three-year period, allowing the platform to pay for itself in less than six months.

Best practices for security have not kept pace with IT teams still treating mobile security separately to overall enterprise security practices, according to US wireless provider Verizon, which warns that mobile devices are the biggest enterprise security threat, but have not been prioritised by the IT teams.