AustCyber grants capital for national threat sharing project.

Australian-Govt. non-profit grants capital for national threat sharing project. Australian company Cybermerc has won funding from independent AustCyber to build AUSHIELD DEFEND, a national threat sharing platform.The funding will come from AustCyber’s AU$15 million Project’s Fund (funded by the Australian Government). AUSHIELD DEFEND will allow Australian businesses to collaborate and defend…

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Taking a strategic approach to cybersecurity

Cybersecurity isn’t just a technology problem it has become a business problem. The rapid digitisation of organisations across many industries has led to an increase in corporate cyberattacks. This costs organisations in terms of money, employee downtime, direct costs of remediating the breach, and far-reaching reputation impacts that damage customer…

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CIOs need to create teams of cybersecurity experts

Cyber criminals ramp up their activities during COVID-19. Recent global incidents around the world has shown COVID-19 hasn’t stopped cybercriminals. The pandemic has made them bolder and they’ve stepped up their activities – be it attacks on corporations, governments, SMEs and home offices. The cyber threat landscape is one that…

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Australia faces a looming cybersecurity skills shortage

Rapid digitisation has increased security needs. Australian businesses and public sector organisations are at risk of being exposed to escalating cyber threats unless they rapidly up skill their cybersecurity workforce, RMIT Online has warned. The warning comes after Prime Minister Scott Morrison identified Australia as the target of organised cyberattacks…

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Going beyond patch cycles and change control to keep cyber criminals away

Governments must work with industry to have a collaborative approach and response. The risks of running unpatched hardware/software in their environments in the current environment has been disastrous for government and private organisations. Last week the Australian Government announced it had been the victim of sustained cyber attacks by sophisticated…

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Australian Govt’s cyber attack shows holes in cybersecurity defences

Corporate Australia has also experienced several recent high-profile security breaches this year. The Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison has announced the Government was made aware and responding to a sustained targeting of Australian governments and companies by a sophisticated state-based actor. According to the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC)…

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Claims Lazarus Group planning COVID 19-related phishing campaign

NK operatives might be planning global cyber-attacks including several Asian countries. Threat intelligence and cybersecurity platform company, CYFIRMA believes the Lazarus Group — hacker group sponsored by North Korea – are planning a global phishing campaign. There is a common thread across six targeted nations in multiple continents – the…

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Intel has announced a new security capability

The Intel Control-Flow Enforcement Technology. Intel control-flow enforcement technology (CET) was built with CPU-level security capabilities to help protect against common malware attack methods that have been a challenge to mitigate with software alone. Intel CET is designed to protect against the misuse of legitimate code through control-flow hijacking attacks…

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DNS Attack in Singapore rises to over US$1M

EfficientIP and IDC report shows DNS attack costs rise and increasingly impacting the cloud. IDC’s latest 2020 Global DNS Threat Report, for EfficientIp has found, the average number of attacks and the associated costs have remained high, enterprise evolution and awareness of DNS security is growing. Nearly four out of…

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