Most cybersecurity investments aren’t used to their full advantage
While organizations are slashing budgets across other departments, IT and security budgets are growing to address evolving IT infrastructure and rising threats from new tactics…
Month: November 2023
Malvertiser copies PC news site to deliver infostealer
The majority of malvertising campaigns delivering malicious utilities that we have tracked so far typically deceive victims with pages that are almost the exact replica…
Government looks at passwordless access for myGov – Strategy – Security
The federal government intends to change how citizens authenticate to the myGov system from next year, moving to passwordless approaches such as passkeys and facial…
NAB credits cloud for critical service resiliency – Finance – Cloud
NAB has sought to emphasise resilience gains from cloud migration and unspecified “service improvements”, pointing to a 17 percent reduction in “critical” and “high” rated…
Veeam patches ONE monitoring platform – Security
Veeam has warned against a vulnerability that could give an attacker remote code execution (RCE) on the SQL server of its Veeam ONE monitoring platform.…
Orica reveals early use of Microsoft Copilot – Strategy – Cloud – Software
Orica, a producer of explosives used in sector like mining, has revealed itself as an early user of Copilot artificial intelligence software in Microsoft 365.…
Sumo Logic discloses security breach
Sumo Logic discloses security breach and recommends customers rotate credentials Pierluigi Paganini November 08, 2023 Security firm Sumo Logic disclosed a security breach after discovering…
Signal tests usernames that keep your phone number private
Signal is now testing public usernames that allow users to conceal the phone numbers linked to their accounts while communicating with others. As Signal’s VP…
Government steps in to run an Optus post-incident ‘review’ – Telco/ISP
Optus will be subjected to a government-run post-incident “review” after its near full-day telecommunications outage yesterday. Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said in a statement that…
CBA publishes anti-abuse AI and ML model – Finance – Software
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has open-sourced the artificial intelligence and machine learning model that it uses to detect abusive language in transaction descriptions. The…
Introducing Advanced Device Control: Shielding businesses from USB threats
With experts noting a troubling threefold surge in USB drive malware incidents in early 2023, Device Control has just leveled up with a key addition:…
Amazon dedicates team to train ambitious AI model – Software
Amazon is investing millions in training an ambitious large language model (LLMs), hoping it could rival top models from OpenAI and Alphabet, two people familiar…