Expert
Ransomware reporting rules begin in June: 5 CEO questions answered
Don’t get caught unprepared. Read on to understand the critical questions every CEO must ask before Australia’s new Ransomware Payment Reporting Rules come into effect.
Tag: Ransomware
Security
Don’t let ransomware hold your business hostage in 2023
With constantly improving techniques, the person becomes the weakest link. According to experts, one trend expected for 2023 is social media account takeovers leading to impersonation attacks on online friends.
Tech
‘Alarming’: cybersecurity training still lacking among employees
Nearly half of the employees in industries most targeted with ransomware haven’t gone through employer-arranged cybersecurity training.
Expert
Ransomware: The cybercrime gig economy
How Ransomware as a Service can make anyone a cyber villain and how we can fight back
Small Business
How to protect your business from the threat of ransomware
How small businesses can protect themselves from ransomware attacks
Security
Cyberattacks and Ransom demands may hit a record high in 2022: Check Point Report
Check Point Software Technologies has issued its cybersecurity predictions, predicting that cyber-attacks will break new records in 2022.
Information Technology
Labor calls on federal government to ‘urgently’ develop national ransomware strategy as cyber attacks increase
Shadow Assistant Minister for Cybersecurity Tim Watts and Shadow Home Affairs Minister Kristina Keneally are calling on the federal government to develop a national ransomware strategy that will make Australian targets less appealing to cyber criminals.
Small Business
Growing complexity in cloud architecture increases vulnerability to ransomware attacks, research says
As the need for multi-cloud adoption has increased with remote working, businesses have become more vulnerable to ransomware attacks. Ransomware attacks are malicious attacks on vulnerable IT systems that attempt to prevent organisations from accessing their data. Attackers can then ask the organisation for a ransom in order to return access to the data. In […]
Tech
How businesses can secure themselves in a post-COVID world
Cyber criminals have been taking advantage of the anxiety over the COVID-19 pandemic with a host of new scams. In Australia, people and businesses were sent texts with “safety information” links which led to fake websites, harvesting personal information. The federal government recently issued a warning about virus-related scams and phishing emails, which are likely to “increase in […]
Small Business
Tackling the 457 visa issues: The technology skills your employees can learn online
Technology’s domination of the working world is all but complete. Recent data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics[1] (ABS) revealed the number of people working in the IT industry has soared by 20 per cent in the last five years. And it is no surprise that the local tech industry recently made to the global […]
