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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.

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.

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 extensive use of fax printers in Australia pose a huge problem.

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.

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.

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).

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

Marriot on Friday reported a data breach affecting the information of 500 million of its Starwood customers. The stolen information includes name, phone number, email addresses, passport number and in some cases credit card numbers and expiry dates. While the company is still taking measures to do damage control for the second-biggest breach in history (after Yahoo’s data breach), here is what consumers can do to protect themselves:

US based hardware giants Dell recently announced a security breach that took place earlier in the month of November.

Dropbox has recently revealed three critical vulnerabilities in the Apple MacOS operating system, which could allow a hacker to execute a malicious code by convincing the victim to visit the malicious web page.