When it comes to mobility, the issue of secure wireless connectivity can keep IT staff awake at night. Businesses are relying more and more on smart devices and gadgets to save money, time and effort but unsecured smart devices can leave a business exposed and provide a backdoor to its network.
SonicWall Real-Time Deep Memory Inspection technology enables SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) to catch more malware faster than behaviour based sandboxing methods, with a lower false positive rate. Throughout this article we will look deeper into this technology and what this all means from a security stand point.
The office of the Australian Information Commissioner ran a research that found that more than one-third of companies that had data breaches in the past quarter are due to, quite simple, human mistakes.
Twitter accidentally exposed its users through its forms for contacting the company. The concern here is that malicious attackers could have users the security flaw to figure out where accounts are geographically based, which can have political ramifications.
Once again Facebook is under scrutiny for bad protection efforts. The Tech Giants latest screw-up was a programming bug that gave 1,500 third-party apps access to the unposted Facebook photos of as many as 6.8 Million users.
Today, IT must ensure secure access to corporate resourcesfor users of both laptops and smartphones. Yet there is asubtle—but distinct—difference between securing laptops and smartphones. In theory, with company-issued, IT-controlled laptops, IT has traditionally had the option to lock down the operating system to prevent the installation of potentially insecure or non-approved applications. Nowadays, though, …
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On Thursday last week, Australia finally passed the “Telecommunications Assistance and Access Bill 2018,” also known as the Anti-Encryption Bill, that would now allow law enforcement to force Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, Signal, and other tech giants to help them access encrypted communications. The more has come out of this and through this article, we will …
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Vulnerabilities have been found within Adobe once again. Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player that hackers are actively exploiting in the wild as part of a targeted campaign that appears to be targeting a Russian state health care institution before it moves to the rest of the world. The …
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A new interesting technique of ransom attached to a rapidly spreading ransomware attack in China is getting the world’s tech leaders attention as the infection has spread to more than 100,000 computers in the last four days as a result of a supply-chain attack. An impactful point is that the number of infected users is continuously growing …
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The Lowy Institute, known as Australia’s biggest, independent, foreign affairs think tank. Providing high-quality research and distinctive perspectives on the international trends shaping Australia and the world. The organisation has now been hit by cyber-attacks that have reportedly come from China and throughout this article, we will break down how this has happened and if it …
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