NZ government to expand cyber defence service
The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) will extend its Malware-Free Networks cyber defence initiative, minister Andrew Little has announced.
The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) will extend its Malware-Free Networks cyber defence initiative, minister Andrew Little has announced.
The stage may be being set for a significant campaign of malware-facilitated blackmail, according to the regional head of Malwarebytes.
Swinburne University of Technology gets some 5.5 million emails a month for students and staff and, says, chief information security officer, Steven Cvetkovic, almost 70 per cent of these are spam, phishing exercises or contain malware.
Canberra has joined the US and British governments in blaming Russia for the NotPetya ransomware wave.
Hackers are opportunistic creatures. As device manufacturers continue to add more CPU cores and gigabytes of RAM to smartphones and tablets as well as enterprise-grade cloud servers, these devices will continue to be increasingly useful targets for botnets.
The Australian government has joined the White House in condemning North Korea over the WannaCry ransomware wave.
The Trump administration has publicly blamed North Korea for unleashing the so-called WannaCry ransomware attack that crippled hospitals, banks and other companies across the globe earlier this year.
A former Rutgers University student and two other men pleaded guilty to computer crimes related to the creation, sale and use of the Mirai botnet, a network of infected electronics equipment used to knock major websites offline in massive 2016 cyber attacks.
Security vendor Sophos says that malware attacks on MacOS, Android and non-Android Linux systems are on the rise.
A coalition of researchers has revealed details about a joint effort by Akamai, Cloudflare, Flashpoint, Google, Oracle Dyn, RiskIQ, Team Cymru and other organisations to take down the WireX botnet.
Bureaucrats and diplomats may have fallen victim to a new malware dropper, delivered under the guise of a G20 ‘Save the date’ document.
Money paid by victims of the WannaCry/WannaCrypt ransomware in an effort to regain access to their files appears to be on the move, with the equivalent of tens of thousands of dollars of bitcoin being shifted into new digital wallets.
An interim report by Victoria’s Road Safety Camera Commissioner has found that there is “no evidence” that an outbreak of WannaCry ransomware infections in Victorian speed and red-light cameras compromised traffic infringement data.
The Australian government’s cyber security minister, Dan Tehan, has call on businesses to take urgent action to protect themselves in the wake of a new global wave of ransomware.
Intrusion detection systems and firewalls that detect and prevent network compromise are critical elements in any secure network environment. But, let’s get real: Many people lack working backups and decent password controls, let alone dedicated defensive gear.