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APP-ACSM | Cyber Security | Featured | April 12, 2021

Reimagining Cybersecurity in Government Through Zero Trust

As the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic became increasingly apparent early last year, the primary objective for the Federal government…

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Live TV Programming subject to Cyberattack – Takes down Channel 9

Australian television network Channel 9 confirmed a cyberattack was behind the failure of live programming coming out of its Sydney…

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APP-ACSM | Featured | March 9, 2021

Darknet takedowns disrupt drugs markets

Dark web takedowns by cross-border law enforcement operations have a significant impact on the availability of opioids, in particular the lethal…

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ACSC High Alert – FireEye identifies global campaign leveraging malicious updates to SolarWinds software.

As of 13 January 2021, the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) confirmed it has received a number of reports from…

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The ransomware war: avoid the inevitability of ransomware losses

Author: Geoffrey Coley, Director, Strategy and Architecture for Asia South and Pacific region, Veritas Technologies LLC A hacker group mounts…

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APP-ACSM | Cyber Security | Editor's Desk | Movers & Shakers | February 14, 2021

AustCyber becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Stone & Chalk

Stone & Chalk and AustCyber announce they will merge. AustCyber is the Australian Cyber Security Growth Network. Established by the…

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Editor's Desk | September 29, 2020

(Cyber) Security Culture Eats (Cyber) Security Strategy for Breakfast

By Jacqueline Jayne IT professionals around the world have some thorough and detailed frameworks and guidelines to use when it…

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Editor's Desk | September 18, 2020

Misinformation spread by the tricks of our brains

The brain can be untrustworthy when it comes to deciphering fake news, and especially when headlines are repeated, presented with photos, or generally easy to imagine, experts…

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Podcast | April 12, 2021

Episode 256 – The Secure Board book launch with Claire Pales and Anna Leibel

We speak with Anna Leibel and Claire Pales on their new book – The Secure Board. This latest book is the second book from best selling author, Claire Pales and the first for her co-author Anna Leibel.

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Podcast | April 12, 2021

Episode 255 – Deepfakes, Shallowfakes & Cheapfakes – Seeing is Believing

In this podcast, Professor Memon traces the highlights in the evolution of AI technologies, and how breakthrough work in “deep” neural network powered by the rapid development in processing power led to the explosion of today’s “deepfakes”.

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Podcast | March 25, 2021

Episode 254 – Ransomware Threat Report 2021 – Unit 42, Palo Alto Networks

Speak with Sean Duca, Vice President and Regional Chief Security Officer for APJ at Palo Alto Networks and walk through Unit 42’s latest Ransomware Threat Report.

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Podcast | March 22, 2021

Episode 253 – The Impact of Australian High Performance Computing in the Coming Decade, Prof Sean Smith of NCI

Jane Lo, Singapore Correspondent speaks with Professor Sean Smith, Director at National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) following SuperComputing Asia 2021.

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Skills & Training

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APP-ACSM | CyberTech Verticals | Movers & Shakers | Skills & Training | April 13, 2021

Uni student’s second-year homework picked up by Amazon quantum researchers

Elegant code could shorten timeline to achieve scalable quantum computation What started out as a second-year physics project is making…

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APP-ACSM | Cyber Security | Skills & Training | April 6, 2021

Fortinet enhances students’ cybersecurity awareness with free training and children’s book

“Cyber Safe: A Dog’s Guide to Internet Security” available globally to make the internet a safer place for all children…

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APP-ACSM | Cyber Security | Skills & Training | March 16, 2021

Dragos opens office and training centre in Melbourne

Dragos, Inc., is expanding its presence in Australia and New Zealand to offer access to its industrial cybersecurity technology and…

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APP-ACSM | Cyber Security | Skills & Training | Strategy & Architecture | March 5, 2021

Kaspersky, industry and policy experts tackle strategies to beef up APAC’s cyberdefenses in a pandemic and beyond

Education, high-level international cooperation, needed to foil skyrocketing sophisticated and borderless cybercrimes Can justice always prevail in the cyberspace? This…

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Governance, Risk & Compliance

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APP-ACSM | Governance, Risk & Compliance | Strategy & Architecture | March 11, 2021

Will APRA’s new focus on resilience help banks through ‘the next COVID’?

Will the COVID-19 pandemic strengthen the resilience of Australian banks and financial services companies to internal and external threats in…

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APP-ACSM | Cyber Security | Governance, Risk & Compliance | White Papers & Research | February 12, 2021

NIST’s Key Practices in Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management

NIST has released NISTIR 8276, Key Practices in Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM): Observations from Industry. This final document…

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APP-ACSM | Cyber Security | Governance, Risk & Compliance | February 5, 2021

Container Forensics – What to do if container get compromised

By Pushkar Tiwari As forecasted by IDC, 80 percent of the workload is shifting to Containers/Microservices by 2023, which would…

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APP-ACSM | Cyber Security | Governance, Risk & Compliance | White Papers & Research | January 28, 2021

Attribute-based Access Control: NIST Draft SP 800-204B is Available for Comment

Deployment architecture in cloud-native applications now consists of loosely coupled components (microservices), with all application services provided through a dedicated…

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Hacking & Penetration Testing

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‘Black Kingdom’ ransomware taking advantage of ProxyLogon vulnerabilities

Following the reporting of the Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities and the out-of-band release of security patches on March 2, a growing number of…

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APP-ACSM | Cyber Security | Hacking & Penetration Testing | Vulnerabilities | March 10, 2021

Microsoft Exchange hack and advice for threat hunting

Following Microsoft’s news about Hafnium, the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) advises organisations using Microsoft Exchange to urgently patch the…

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APP-ACSM | Hacking & Penetration Testing | Vulnerabilities | February 11, 2021

More than 100 Financial Services Firms Hit with DDoS Extortion Attacks

FS-ISAC, a global cyber intelligence sharing community solely focused on financial services, announced today that last year, more than 100…

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APP-ACSM | Cyber Security | Hacking & Penetration Testing | January 27, 2021

New Year, New Version of DanaBot

By Dennis Schwarz, Axel F., and Brandon Murphy Proofpoint researchers discovered an updated version of DanaBot in the wild. DanaBot…

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Information Security

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APP-ACSM | Cyber Security | Information Security | White Papers & Research | April 12, 2021

Verizon Mobile Security Index: COVID-19 unearths new cyber threats

The COVID-19 pandemic forced businesses to quickly support remote working practices, often without proper security measures in place. The Verizon…

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APP-ACSM | Cyber Security | Information Security | Vulnerabilities | April 7, 2021

What the scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online means for Aussie users

A recent report that an archive containing data purportedly scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles has been put for sale…

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APP-ACSM | Information Security | Movers & Shakers | Strategy & Architecture | April 6, 2021

Fujitsu Australia acquires Versor

Fujitsu Australia has announced the acquisition of data analytics specialist management consultancy, Versor, which took effect on Thursday, 1 April…

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APP-ACSM | Cyber Security | Information Security | Strategy & Architecture | March 31, 2021

International Back-up day today – Back-up data to defend against cybercrime

Today, on World Back-up Day businesses, organisations and individuals are being urged to back-up their digital information to protect themselves…

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Strategy & Architecture

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APP-ACSM | Strategy & Architecture | White Papers & Research | April 13, 2021

IT Leaders Increasing Impact on Employee Experience and Business Resilience

An Elastic commissioned study, The Changing Role of the IT Leader, conducted by Forrester Consulting shows employee experience has become…

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APP-ACSM | Cyber Security | Strategy & Architecture | April 12, 2021

ICERA grants announced for cyber security capabilities

Grants worth $3.6 million have been awarded to twelve businesses as part of the Industry Competitive Evaluation Research Agreement (ICERA),…

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APP-ACSM | Cyber Security | Movers & Shakers | Strategy & Architecture | April 8, 2021

Cipherpoint announces successful completion of Brace168 acquisition

In an ASX announcement, Cipherpoint has completed the acquisition of 100% of Brace168 Pty Limited. Brace168 builds IT and cyber…

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APP-ACSM | Cyber Security | Strategy & Architecture | April 7, 2021

ACT Government sets up hub to counter cybersecurity threat

The Australian Capital Territory Government is moving to set up Canberra as a national cybersecurity hub. The ACT Government is…

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Cyberattack on Iranian Atomic Facility

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IoT Security and avoiding endpoint detection

Why 5G Matters

See Through Walls @100m - Xaver Long Range Imaging System | Israeli Tech Series

Space Launch Approval

Space Sector Market Update - Q1, 2021

VSS & CCTV Market Update - plus advanced analytics insights

The Secure Board with Anna Leibel & Claire Pales - Book Launch

Drone Detection Integrated with CRM

Resilient Multi-Mission Space - Defence Science and Technology Group

Ransomware payments near triple growth in 2020 - Palo Alto Networks

Botnet mitigation with Kasada and their new V2 Platform

Micro-Wearable Sensors - Tiny med tech that will save lives

MySecTV - Project Koete

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A process not a product: why changing the perception of cybersecurity is essential for ongoing success

NSW Fair Trading warns consumers about flood damage scams

Zero-day exploit found in Desktop Window Manager

Call for comment – Automation of the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP)

Sapien Cyber and Honeywell team up

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