Shadow IT: Security policies may be a problem
3 out of 4 workers use personal (and often unmanaged) phones and laptops for work and nearly half of companies let unmanaged devices access protected…
Month: September 2023
Securing your endpoints is critical for defence in depth – Partner Content – Security
60-75% of all successful cyber-attacks start at an endpoint. But whenever we read about a breach, the focus moves quickly to how servers, cloud services…
18 free Microsoft Azure cybersecurity resources you should check out
Far exceeding a traditional public cloud platform, Azure is a comprehensive suite of over 200 products and cloud services engineered to solve current challenges and…
GitLab patches critical vulnerability – Security – Software
GitLab is warning users to patch GitLab Enterprise Edition instances against a critical vulnerability. In its advisory, the organisation said the vulnerability, given the identifier…
Rising OT/ICS cybersecurity incidents reveal alarming trend
60% of cyberattacks against the industrial sector are led by state-affiliated actors and often unintentionally enabled by internal personnel (about 33% of the time), according…
Compromised Free Download Manager website was delivering malware for years
After three years of delivering malware to selected visitors, Free Download Manager was alerted to the fact that its website had been compromised. In a…
Digital ID legislation lands at last – Strategy – Security
The federal government has introduced digital identity legislation to parliament, with the ACCC named in it as the preferred digital ID regulator. In a speech…
Strong compliance management is crucial for fintech-bank partnerships
72% of banks and credit unions are prioritizing compliance when evaluating fintechs, citing it as their top criteria in the due diligence process, according to…
Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed terabytes of sensitive data
Microsoft AI researchers posted a long-living, overly permissive, SAS token on GitHub, exposing 38 TB of data. Warnings about including credentials, keys, and tokens when…
Oracle to use Ampere’s newest chips in its cloud offering – Hardware
Oracle will use Ampere Computing’s flagship processor chips in its cloud computing service, in a boost to the chip company that has filed for an…
ANZ reworks internal developer platform used for ANZ Plus – Finance – Cloud – Software
ANZ is rebuilding the internal developer platform used by its software engineers to code and deliver new features for its consumer digital banking service, ANZ…
The mystery of the CVEs that are not vulnerabilities
Researchers have raised the alarm about a large set of CVE for older bugs that never were vulnerabilities. A researcher specializing in Software Supply Chain…