Regulatory activity forces compliance leaders to spend more on GRC tools
Legal and compliance department investment in GRC (governance, risk, and compliance) tools will increase 50% by 2026, according to Gartner. Assurance leaders are seeking out…
Month: September 2023
Financially Motivated UNC3944 Threat Actor Shifts Focus to Ransomware Attacks
Sep 18, 2023THNThreat Intelligence / Ransomware The financially motivated threat actor known as UNC3944 is pivoting to ransomware deployment as part of an expansion to…
Government to create six “cyber shields” to layer Australian protection – Security
The government will frame a revised cyber security strategy later this year around six “cyber shields” it plans to build as a multi-layered defence against…
PostgreSQL 16: Where enhanced security meets high performance
PostgreSQL is an open-source object-relational database platform with a track record of over 25 years of ongoing development. Its reputation is solid for its reliability,…
Google to pay US$155 million in settlements over location tracking – Software
Google has agreed to pay US$155 million ($241 million) to settle claims by California and private plaintiffs that the search engine company misled consumers about…
Industry to gov: improve digital ID as part of cyber security strategy – Security
A clear industry consensus in favour of government-backed digital ID has emerged across submissions to the govermment’s revised cyber security strategy consultation. NAB [pdf] explained…
Imagine Making Shadowy Data Brokers Erase Your Personal Info. Californians May Soon Live the Dream
You may not know it, but thousands of often shadowy companies routinely traffic in personal data you probably never agreed to share — everything from…
Gold Fields Australia is digitising its Granny Smith mine – Software
Gold Fields has deployed a digital platform to connect mine planning and operations at its Granny Smith gold mine, about 740km northeast of Perth. Granny…
Dymocks links data breach to “external data partner” – Security
Book retailer Dymocks has identified the source of a data breach, affecting 1.24 million customer records, as an “external data partner”. In an update posted…
Blockchain analysts suspect Lazarus Group hackers behind US$70m crypto theft – Security
Blockchain researchers say North Korea-linked hackers are likely behind a US$70 million ($109 million) theft from crypto exchange CoinEx. CoinEx, which says it is based…
Apple moves to defuse French iPhone 12 radiation dispute – Software
Apple has pledged to update software on iPhone 12s in France to settle a dispute over radiation levels, but concerns in other European countries signalled…
TikTok flooded by ‘Elon Musk’ cryptocurrency giveaway scams
TikTok is flooded by a surge of fake cryptocurrency giveaways posted to the video-sharing platform, with almost all of the videos pretending to be themes…