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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ATO claims to have received more than 115,000 faxed documents in 2017-18. According to ‘The Age’, and ‘the Sydney Morning Herald ‘, many small Australian companies in the healthcare, finance and legal sector still use fax on a daily basis. The vulnerabilities in the fax machine protocols haven’t been updated since the 1980s and such
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Adobe has recently released security updates to fix two critical vulnerabilities for Acrobat and Reader. The first vulnerability, identified as CVE-2018-16011, can lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The second vulnerability, identified as CVE-2018-19725, can result in privilege escalation.
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Privasec’s Cyber Security Advisor for APAC, Shamane Tan wrote an article about the Open Group FAIR framework. This framework provides a structured and community vetted approach to calculate the Return on Investment (ROI) on cybersecurity controls. Read the full article here.
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Apart from having financial implications, a security breach leads to a loss of consumer trust. An illustration of this is in the hospitality industry, where breaches can have a negative impact on consumer perception, satisfaction and intent to revisit (Berezina et al., 2012).
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Privasec is really proud to be a part of ICE71; Singapore’s first cybersecurity startup hub, aimed at growing Singapore’s cybersecurity ecosystem. Privasec’s COO, Karan Khosla shared his thoughts on hacking and data breaches in a recent interview with ICE71. Here are some key takeaways from his interview: It is not a question of IF but
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