Cybersecurity news stories

New data shows up to 75% of critical vulnerabilities could be mitigated through a rights and privileges crackdown

"Criminals craft malicious documents and convince their victims to open them through social engineering techniques."

A new study will explore solutions to overcome pressing skills and diversity challenges in the Australian security sector.

Rather than talking in terms of attack vectors and vulnerabilities, CISOs and security decision-makers must look at actual business risk.

Claroty has released research detailing a new type of cyber-attack, one that weaponises programmable logic controllers (PLCs).

Sophos has announced in a new whitepaper that Hive, LockBit and BlackCat, three prominent ransomware gangs, consecutively attacked the same network.

Lacework has announced new capabilities that enable organisations to uncover more critical threats to their infrastructure and empower teams.

The move to remote and cloud-based technologies has shifted the goalposts for cybersecurity. It now needs to cover multiple people, devices, platforms, and networks.

When breaking down the numbers to education attacks by region in July 2022, A/NZ was the most heavily attacked.

Australian organisations are more concerned about cyberattacks than they were prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey.

Superloop has launched CyberEdge, a new cybersecurity platform that will give K12 schools in Australia the tools to optimise, secure and manage their network.

The renewed partnership is designed to maximise the value of Microsoft solutions to various NSW Government agencies.

Each ransomware gang left its own ransom demand, and some of the files were triple encrypted, according to a new report from Sophos.

BeyondTrust's new survey shows Australian organisations are more concerned about cyberattacks than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) shows that 61% of all breaches involve malicious actors gaining unauthorised, privileged access to data by using a compromised credential. Unfortunately, it is often too late when the misuse of a credential is detected.

Zero trust is fast emerging as global best practice in cybersecurity and local leaders are on board, with 83% considering it essential to security.

A darkverse of criminality hidden from law enforcement could quickly evolve to fuel a new industry of metaverse-related cybercrime.

The State of the Internet report shows gaming companies and gamer accounts are at risk, following a surge in web application attacks post pandemic.

DEFEND supports customers in 66 countries across the globe with a relentless focus on ensuring that every dollar spent on security provides a meaningful return on investment and reduces cyber risk.

Unit 42 Managed Detection and Response is a new service that can offer continuous 24/7 threat detection, investigation and response.

The company says Claroty xDome is the industry's first solution to deliver the ease and scalability of SaaS without compromising on visibility, protection, and monitoring controls.

In the past 12 months, over a third of Australian businesses (36%) experienced a cloud-based data breach or failed audit. 

Trans-Tasman security integrator looks to meet the twin challenges of high client project demand tight & labour market supply with new opportunities.

Ivanti and SentinelOne will integrate their technologies Ivanti Neurons for Patch Management and SentinelOne's Singularity XDR platform.