Cyber strategy has cost Home Affairs $2.8 million so far – Strategy – Security
The government’s 2023-2030 Australian cyber security strategy has so far set the government back just over $2.8 million, with no strategy yet to show for…
Month: July 2023
Los Angeles SIM Swapper Pleads Guilty to Cybercrime Charges
A Los Angeles man has pleaded guilty to using SIM swapping to perpetrate multiple cybercrime schemes targeting hundreds of victims. Between April 2019 and February…
Transforming the financial system’s plumbing
The way we pay has changed over the centuries, from shells, to coins, to banknotes, to cheques, to cards, to smartwatches and much in between.…
Emergency patch for ColdFusion zero-day – Security
Adobe has issued an out-of-cycle software patch for its ColdFusion software after security researchers found a previous patch was incomplete, and being exploited in the…
Over 20,000 Citrix Appliances Vulnerable to New Exploit
A new exploit technique targeting a recent Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway vulnerability can be used against thousands of unpatched devices, cybersecurity firm…
New OpenSSH Vulnerability Exposes Linux Systems to Remote Command Injection
Jul 24, 2023THNLinux / Network Security Details have emerged about a now-patched flaw in OpenSSH that could be potentially exploited to run arbitrary commands remotely…
Security AI and automation may reduce cost of data breaches
The average cost of a data breach to a UK organisation now stands at £3.4m, but this figure drops by approximately £1.6m at organisations that…
Endeavour Group seeks national coordination of ‘harm minimisation’ tech at gambling venues – Software – Security
Endeavour Group has called on state and territory governments to coordinate a national approach to using technology – facial recognition or otherwise – to combat…
Analysis of CVE-2023-3519 in Citrix ADC and NetScaler Gateway (Part 2) – Assetnote
In our last post we uncovered a vulnerability inside Citrix ADC and NetScaler Gateway that was in the patch fix for CVE-2023-3519. It seems that…
Atlassian Patches Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Confluence, Bamboo
Atlassian has released patches for two remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in Confluence Data Center and Server and another in Bamboo Data Center. The most…
Two Mn Records At Risk
The Egypt health ministry is facing a data breach, as a hacker claims to have two million records up for sale. The alleged Egypt health…
Telstra proposes to cut around 472 roles – Telco/ISP
Telstra is proposing a “net reduction” of 472 roles, which would be achieved by making a higher number of individuals redundant but offsetting some of…