Tag: cyber security

September 21, 2023

Pizza Hut’s Australian outpost has suffered a data breach. The baked goods purveyor has delivered bitter news to around 190,000 customers: that their name, delivery address, email address, and phone numbers have been accessed by unautorised entities. Even more seriously, […]

September 20, 2023

Cyber security remains a top three priority for most, if not all, organisations. The risks associated with failure to implement adequate defences were once again highlighted by the ransomware incident which impacted several hospital computer systems across the US last […]

September 19, 2023

Australia will build “six cyber shields around our nation” declared home affairs minister Clare O’Neill yesterday, as part of a national cyber security strategy. Detailed in a speech before a summit on cyber security, the strategy’s six “shields” comprise: Education […]

June 16, 2023

During the month of May, an unknown threat group created a malicious GitHub repository that claimed to contain a zero-day exploit for a vulnerability in the Signal messaging app. The attackers supported the credibility of the exploit by creating a […]

May 4, 2023

Three different threat actors leveraged hundreds of elaborate fictitious personas on Facebook and Instagram to target individuals located in South Asia as part of disparate attacks. “Each of these APTs relied heavily on social engineering to trick people into clicking […]

December 28, 2022

Ukraine’s domestic intelligence agency revealed earlier this week that it successfully blocked more than 4,500 cyberattacks in 2022. The Security Service of Ukraine, which protects Ukraine’s information and digital security in wartime conditions, says the number of cyberattacks has tripled […]

September 8, 2022

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in California, the 2nd largest school district in the USA, was attacked by hackers during the Labor Day weekend. The attack caused a ‘significant infrastructure disruption.’ Cybercriminals managed to infect and lock up […]

April 20, 2022

Today’s businesses, regardless of size, are vulnerable to hacking and data theft, which can result in significant financial loss. A virtual private network (VPN) uses advanced technology to protect your business data and keep you safe from online threats. A […]

February 2, 2022

The cyber threat team at retail giant Walmart has analyzed a new ransomware family dubbed Sugar, which is offered through a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model. Unlike other ransomware operations, Sugar ransomware appears to primarily focus on individual computers instead of entire […]

April 1, 2021

Organizations are shifting application environments, migrating workloads between on-premise, private and public clouds and operating a hybrid application ecosystem spread across multiple environments. According to Radware’s 2021 State of Web Application and API Protection Report, 47% of organizations who operate […]

March 31, 2021

Founded over 70 years ago, this airline is now one of the largest in South America. Business started with domestic flights but has since expanded to an array of international destinations with service to cities across the United States, Canada […]

March 8, 2021

The US may conduct offensive cyber attacks against targets in Russia within weeks in retaliation for the widespread SolarWinds Orion attacks, even as the government’s cyber security teams deal with additional fall-out from last week’s disclosure of four dangerous vulnerabilities […]

February 19, 2021

President Biden looks set to sign off an executive action to address gaps in the US’s national cyber security posture that were left painfully exposed by the December 2020 SolarWinds incident. The cyber attack first came to light via cyber […]

December 10, 2020

I thought we had heard the end of availability issues last year (see my blog from last year). After all, reliability and having enough processing horsepower to keep applications available across failures is one of the big benefits of migrating […]

December 9, 2020

The majority of cyber security professionals say their approach to security will never return to how it was before the Covid-19 pandemic, as they emphasise securing remote workers and cloud deployments as ongoing challenges heading into 2021, according to a […]

November 25, 2020

With the year’s biggest shopping season upon us, consumers are getting ready to take advantage of enticing discounts and offers from a range of e-commerce websites and applications. Naturally, this is also the peak time of year for fraudsters and […]

November 24, 2020

Last week, I took a deep dive on U.S. election-related topics, including the government’s response to potential cyber threats, the issue of malspam during the election, and whether or not nation-state attacks had a meaningful impact on the election. Here […]

November 18, 2020

Chris Krebs, the director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – America’s equivalent of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – has been dismissed by outgoing president Donald Trump, after his agency’s analysis of the 3 […]

November 10, 2020

At the beginning of 2020, risk management and compliance were seen as the top spending priorities for CISOs, and while this remains a key area of focus, much has changed. According to the new data, which was compiled in September […]

October 22, 2020

Guaranteeing appropriate access to enterprise systems for remote workers has been the biggest cyber security challenge faced by IT teams during the pandemic, but it’s a good opportunity to improve business resilience by committing to a far higher standard of […]