"Amidst the rising difficulties of protecting their people and defending data, CISOs are being tested at a personal level with higher expectations."

Registries and artifact management systems are prime targets for threat actors as they are crucial elements within the software supply chain.

Residential proxies can open up the door to bad actors, who are ready to exploit user anonymity for nefarious activities.

Pro-Russian hacktivists have moved beyond the basic denial-of-service scripts and crowdsourced attacks to more advanced and potent techniques.

Given that most large organisations have made significant cybersecurity investments yet have poorly resourced security teams under enormous stress, what can be done to reduce the likelihood of incidents occurring?

Secureworks has found that the Iranian threat group, Cobalt Sapling, has reemerged with a new persona, Abraham's Ax.

A publicly exposed API is widely believed to be the cause of at least one of the major attacks on Australian enterprises in the back half of 2022.

“The digitalised era comes with plenty of pros, but lots of cons at the same time, with possible data leaking probably being the most dangerous one."

In February, Russia-based ransomware group Conti declared it would fully support the Russian Government during its invasion of Ukraine.

Ransomware had a monumental impact on organisations in 2021, responsible for approximately 38% of all breaches, and 31% of breaches in APAC.

The recent GoDaddy data breach saw the potential exposure of 1.2 million customers' data.

"Personal data is a huge business that hackers try to make use of."

Vanta has announced the public availability of two new certification standards designed to help secure the internet and protect consumer data. 

LinkedIn has experienced another huge data scape, the third in four months, with 600 million profiles for sale online.

"If confidential information falls into the wrong hands, it could harm the company in a variety of ways."

Oversharing increases the risk an organisation will lose data, violate compliance or privacy mandates, or experience cybercrime.

Australians want to see greater transparency about the extent of the problem, new polling has found.

A white hat hacker hacker uncovered a total of 9517 unsecured databases worldwide, collectively containing more than 10 billion entries.

Research has identified a total of 9,517 unsecured databases containing 10,463,315,645 entries with such data as emails, passwords, and phone numbers.

"The report calls into question the providers’ security practices and dismisses their claims of being no-log VPN services."

UpGuard reported that each of the data sets was stored in its own Amazon S3 bucket configured to allow public download of files.

TechDay spoke to experts and executives in the security industry about the data leak and the implications on phishing and credential stuffing.

This makes the second leak three times bigger than the Collection #1 dump leaked last month.

Objections to data sharing recorded in GP practices running clinical software TPP’s system between March 2015 and June 2018 were not sent to NHS.