Tips to address the most common cyber security mistakes to get ready for 2022
Almost 75 per cent of Australian businesses experienced as many as ten cyber incidents or breaches over the last year
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Almost 75 per cent of Australian businesses experienced as many as ten cyber incidents or breaches over the last year
How to avoid falling prey to online fraud over the busy festive season.
Malicious attacks called ransomware are one of the biggest threats facing SMBs.
Check Point Software Technologies has issued its cybersecurity predictions, predicting that cyber-attacks will break new records in 2022.
The grant is a step forward in establishing career pathways to help more Australians seek jobs.
Security risks and high-profile ransomware attacks are escalating. Is your business prepared, and does it have the resources to manage your risk?
75 per cent of executives view customer insight as a vehicle for innovation.
Australia’s Nine Network has been the target of what may be the largest-scale cyber attack thus far on an Australian media company…
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Shadow Assistant Minister for Cybersecurity Tim Watts and Shadow Home Affairs Minister Kristina Keneally are calling on the federal government to develop a national ransomware strategy that will make Australian targets less appealing to cyber criminals.
Hacking and data breaches have become increasingly common for business owners and leaders. Here’s what you need to know…
We sat down with Scott McKinnel, a manager at international cybersecurity company Tenable, to discuss the cyber threats putting businesses at risk and what can be done to crack down on these vulnerabilities.
Investigators from the United States, England, Canada, France, Netherlands, Lithuania and the Ukraine joined forces for this massive takedown…
Let’s be frank—passwords are still the bane of our online existence. They’re living fossils, throwbacks to a time when a secret string of characters was the only thing available to secure accounts. Thankfully, there are now secure and easy to use authentication options which let organisations relegate passwords to computing’s Jurassic era. We’ve all been there. Staring […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has not only seen us change our ways of working. Cybercriminals have adjusted the way they work, intensifying their focus on low-hanging fruit like the ‘quick fixes’ many organisations implemented to support employees working remotely. According to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), the number of data breach notifications attributed to ransomware […]
No matter the crisis, belated planning is a recipe for disaster. Crisis and business continuity teams won’t have sufficient time to revisit untested plans, let alone build new ones from scratch. Instead, companies should start putting plans and playbooks in place to manage the effects of disruptive incidents, especially those most likely to occur in […]
Byline: Jim Cook, Regional ANZ Director, Malwarebytes The introduction of the Notifiable Data Breaches Scheme (NDBS) in February 2018 focused the attention of Australian businesses on security. Since that time, there have been more than 800 breaches reported – the majority of them from the healthcare sector. With this focus in mind, the business sector […]
Optus Business and Wholesale today announced it has selected Sophos, a global leader in network and endpoint security, as its main cybersecurity technology partner. “Our goal is to protect the data of small businesses at the points where it is most vulnerable – at the endpoint and through phishing and suspicious URL attacks that target […]
The LastPass by LogMeIn Global Password Security Report surveyed over 43,000 businesses and individuals, revealing: Each of us shares six passwords with our co-workers – if one of those passwords is hacked, every employee that has that password can be compromised. 50 per cent of users don’t create different passwords for work and personal accounts Another LastPass survey […]
A recent survey commissioned by Prospa found that more than half (54%) of small business owners spend at least 6 days a week on their venture, with one in four (28%) working 7 days. When faced with the pressures of running a small business – from managing cashflow to acquiring customers to organising a new […]