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Android users need to be highly cautious as menial tasks such as viewing a png file can compromise their smartphone.

Privasec and its subsidiary DroneSec are excited to sponsor the inaugural BSides Melbourne conference to be held on 16th and 17th February.

The Privasec Red guys have been ethically breaking into networks and premises to help organisations identify critical gaps in their security implementation. Using realistic attack techniques and methodologies that are tailored to each of our customers, the team consistently obtains physical and electronic access to various forms of sensitive information. In most cases, the Privasec Red Team been able to compromise clients by using cheap and simple techniques that can be easily protected against.

The Privasec team in Brisbane, Queensland is very excited to be working with one of Australia’s most exciting payments providers as they finalise their compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Merchants and service providers across Australia are increasingly being asked by their acquiring banks and customers to provide evidence of their compliance. PCI DSS QSA’s at Privasec have been helping clients for many years to understand how the standard impacts their business, how to adopt the security controls required by the standard and how to achieve this in in the most productive, cost effective and timely manner. If you are not sure how PCI DSS might impact your business Privasec’s PCI DSS health check can provide the answers.

Privasec’s Consultant, Sajeeb Lohani has been invited to speak at the OWASP Conference in Auckland, New Zealand on 22nd February.

In March 2018 abuse.ch, a non-profit cybersecurity organization in Switzerland launched project URLhaus with the aim of detecting, collating and sharing URLs that contain malware. In the 10 months since its inception, over 265 security researchers helped takedown nearly 100,000 websites which were distributing malware.

Almost every week, an ever-growing list of data breaches occur around the world. In a lot of cases, attackers ultimately gain access to sensitive information such as a hashed password database. This type of information can be useful for the bad guys when targeting specific organisations and/or people.

Department of Homeland security has issued an emergency directive requiring all US agencies to operate with a .gov domain. AU Gov tends to follow US Gov directives in turn so potentially, this is something that may be incorporated into the ISM in future.

Daily Backups are bread and butter of any organisation’s IT department. An organisation can lose its data due to many reasons: cyber-attacks, corrupt storage media, rogue employees or human error. Yet many companies fail to formulate a backup and recovery plan for their data.

A critical bug has just been discovered in the new iOS allowing eavesdropping via FaceTime. A fix is expected later this week, but in the meantime, it is highly recommended to turn off FaceTime.