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The golden age of Windows ransomware appears to be here, judging by the statistics provided by content delivery network Akamai in its latest State of the Internet report that spans the period from October 2021 to the end of May 2023.

Is the state of security stuffed? Well, with security credential stuffing attacks one of the big dangers this year, we spoke to Akamai's APJ Head of Security Technology and Strategy, Fernando Serto.

Credential stuffing is stuffing up the financial services industry, with content attacks, malicious login attempts on the rise with 8.3 billion detected in a recent two month period alone.

Akamai and (ISC)2 are holding a "Live Security Webinar" on 8 August at 3pm AEST with the latest information on real-world incidents, security best practices, trends and more.

Cyber security defenders face "increasing threats from organisations in the form of bot-based credential abuse targeting the hospitality industry and advanced distributed denial of service attacks".

Akamai shows that when it comes to mobile broadband, Australia is one of the globe’s mobile Internet champs, but we’re fixed-Internet chumps.

How does Australia (and the world) fare in the Akamai Q4 2014 State of the Internet report? iTWire spoke its Editor, David Belson, to find out!