Anticipating the benefits of a passwordless tomorrow
Businesses are actively moving to eradicate passwords from employees’ lives, with 89% of IT leaders expecting passwords to represent less than a quarter of their…
Month: October 2023
Customer data stolen from gaming cloud host Shadow
Cloud service provider Shadow has notified customers about a data breach affecting over 500,000 users. Cloud infrastructure provider Shadow has warned of the data theft of…
Officeworks builds staff safety apps – Software
Officeworks has built bespoke apps on ServiceNow to guide staff in complying with workplace safety protocols and to simplify reporting of hazards and incidents. Head…
Stack Overflow to cut back its team – Training & Development – Software
Stack Overflow, a knowledge-sharing platform used by developers and software engineers, said it would reduce the size of its team by 28 percent in a…
ELITEWOLF: NSA’s repository of signatures and analytics to secure OT
Cyber entities continue to show a persistent interest in targeting critical infrastructure by taking advantage of vulnerable OT assets. To counter this threat, NSA has…
NBN Co gets green light for new pricing, service standards – Telco/ISP
A nearly three-year process to agree new price and non-price terms for the NBN is complete, after the ACCC agreed to a varied special access…
The forgotten malvertising campaign
A sophisticated threat actor has been using Google ads to deliver custom malware payloads to victims for months while flying under the radar. In recent…
Understanding cloud data is the key to achieving a single pane of glass view and avoiding swivel-chair analysis – Partner Content – Security
While the cloud has delivered a massive boost to organisations in every sector, it has also created new challenges with security near the top of…
New Cisco Web UI Vulnerability Exploited by Attackers
Cisco is aware of the active exploitation of this vulnerability, but there are no workarounds available. Cisco has warned customers of a previously unknown vulnerability…
LinkedIn lays off 668 employees – Software
Microsoft’s LinkedIn said it would lay off 668 employees across its engineering, talent and finance teams in the second round of job cuts this year…
Discord still a hotbed of malware activity — Now APTs join the fun
Discord continues to be a breeding ground for malicious activity by hackers and now APT groups, with it commonly used to distribute malware, exfiltrate data,…
ConnectID digital identity exchange launches – Finance – Strategy
Australian Payments Plus’ (AP+) has officially launched its digital identity exchange, ConnectID with Commonwealth Bank and NAB customers the first cohort able to utilise the…