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Expert says Cash Converters cybersecurity breach 'yet ANOTHER wakeup call'

Tue, 21st Nov 2017
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Cash Converters breached, hackers have access to UK customer account details, usernames, passwords, addresses and partial credit card numbers.
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'Leaker' behind massive NSA breach possibly still working at agency

Wed, 15th Nov 2017
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A cybersecurity expert has said it is a 'stunning admission' by the former CIA director about the NSA breach that is being touted as catastrophic.
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'No way' to stop sale of 46 million Malaysians' personal data after crippling breach

Tue, 14th Nov 2017
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A cyber breach has left data from 46 million Malaysian mobile users for sale at RM32,000. Once bought, there's 'no way' to halt its sale or misuse.
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Current IT security not up to the job – time to make some changes

Tue, 14th Nov 2017
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IDC says billions of dollars are spent around the world every year on various forms of IT security, and yet, data breaches are still happening.
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'Victory for the good guys' - criminal behind Mandiant hack arrested

Mon, 6th Nov 2017
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FireEye has nabbed the hacker behind the Mandiant attack that compromised researcher Adi Peretz's accounts, claiming it as a victory for the good guys.
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Major data breach hits Malaysia's 46 million mobile phone users

Thu, 2nd Nov 2017
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A data breach has put more than 46 million Malaysian mobile phone users at risk and has affected many of the country's major telecommunicatio.
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Trend Micro gains 'perfect' 100% breach detection score in NSS Labs testing

Fri, 27th Oct 2017
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rend Micro says it has achieved a 'perfect score' for breach detection in NSS Lab's Breach Detection System Report.
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Kaspersky CEO rubbishes 'false' allegations of hacking from US media

Fri, 27th Oct 2017
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It was only weeks ago when the US Government had been hacked again and blamed Kaspersky Labs - the cybersecurity company's CEO says they're false.
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RSA boosts solution portfolio as GDPR regulations approach

Tue, 24th Oct 2017
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data privacy
RSA extends its governance, risk and compliance solution to help businesses comply with security legislation such as GDPR.
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Australia's breach disclosure policy has major holes, expert says

Wed, 18th Oct 2017
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Australia's breach disclosure policy doesn't go nearly far enough in protecting consumers and pales in comparison to the European Union's GDPR.
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Not again… Expert discusses potential SECOND Equifax breach

Mon, 16th Oct 2017
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It was only weeks ago that one of the single largest data breaches in history was announced - now Equifax may have been hacked again.
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Why encryption is a critical step towards NDB compliance

Mon, 16th Oct 2017
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1,901,866,611 data records from 918 breach incidents were compromised globally with only 4.6% of breaches rendered useless due to encryption.
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Hacking of national security projects highlights importance of patching

Wed, 11th Oct 2017
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The recent release of the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) 2017 report revealed a small breach – with massive implications.
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Accenture's data breach stark reminder of server misconfiguration dangers

Wed, 11th Oct 2017
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Publicly downloadable information included credentials, platform configurations, certificates, decryption keys and API data.
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Russian hackers steal from US government again – expert says US at fault

Fri, 6th Oct 2017
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Piers Wilson says that in some ways, it is genuinely shocking that the NSA has allowed a contractor to expose vital US cyber-defence data like this.
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SonicWall onboards more customers as malware block rate soars

Fri, 6th Oct 2017
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SonicWall reports a 524% increase in unique malware variants in the last 6 months, equating to around 1000 new variants daily.
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Yahoo's colossal security breach - experts give their opinions

Wed, 4th Oct 2017
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Yahoo's latest news of a breach of 3m accounts is certainly nothing to cheer about, but experts from the industry give their insights on the matter.
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Yahoo's 2013 data breach hit all three billion user accounts

Wed, 4th Oct 2017
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Yahoo's entire user base of more than three billion people were affected by Yahoo's colossal data hack in 2013, despite initial reports.
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Australia's cybersecurity is 'undermined' by skills shortage

Wed, 4th Oct 2017
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Cybersecurity is being undermined by the ongoing skills shortage and Australia will need at least 11,000 new security employees to keep up.
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New data logging service allows actionable cybersecurity insights

Thu, 28th Sep 2017
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Palo Alto's new service is for machine learning & advanced analytics in order to correlate potential threats & prevent successful cyber breaches.