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Wednesday, 29 January 2020 10:47
Cybercriminals increase sophistication of ‘impersonation’ attacks
By Peter Dinham
Cyber-criminals are using increasingly sophisticated impersonation attacks on Australian businesses, according to a new survey which found that 54% of Australian Infosec professionals faced phishing-triggered ransomware infections in 2019 — more than any of the other six countries surveyed, including the US, UK, Japan, Germany, France and Spain.
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Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:29
SAP adds ball-toss analysis to Tennis Analytics suite
By Stephen Withers
SAP has been working on tennis analytics for years, but even the latest Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rule change prevents the software being used by coaches during matches at the Australian Open.
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Data
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Tuesday, 28 January 2020 11:38
Three men arrested in Indonesia over card-skimming attacks
By Sam Varghese
Three men, identified only by their initials, have been arrested in Indonesia on suspicion of using Magecart-style attacks to steal digital data in Indonesia.
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Tuesday, 28 January 2020 11:18
‘Disconnect’ between cybersecurity culture, cyber resilience says McAfee
By Peter Dinham
There’s a disconnect in cybersecurity culture and cyber resilience according to a new research report that reveals that 35% of Australian respondents don’t feel their organisation is cyber resilient.
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Security
Friday, 24 January 2020 11:09
AWS engineer leaves sensitive info in GitHub repository
By Sam Varghese
An Amazon Web Services engineer left 954MB of data in a GitHub repository, among them personal identity documents and system credentials including passwords.
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Security
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Thursday, 23 January 2020 23:06
Microsoft set to force Bing onto Chrome via Office 365 update
By David M Williams
Global software company, Microsoft, today announced it will install a browser extension that makes Bing the default search engine for Google Chrome beginning with Office 365 ProPlus version 2002.
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Enterprise Solutions
Thursday, 23 January 2020 13:41
WhiteHawk delivering cybersecurity amid heightened threats
By Megan Evans
By Megan Evans
SPONSORED NEWS. Increasing in frequency, sophistication, scale and scope, cybersecurity threats are on the rise across the globe.
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Security
Thursday, 23 January 2020 11:42
Aussie Broadband opens new call centre, partners with Learn Local
By Peter Dinham
Internet service provider Aussie Broadband has expanded its network, establishing a new call centre in the outer Melbourne suburb of Lynbrook, and partnering with Learn Local to help meet its staffing requirement for the centre.
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Business Telecommunications
Thursday, 23 January 2020 11:21
250m Microsoft customer support records exposed on Web
By Sam Varghese
Two hundred and fifty million records of conversations between Microsoft support agents and customers spanning the period 2005 to December 2019 lay exposed on the Web and was discovered last month.
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Security
Thursday, 23 January 2020 11:07
Wyndham Destinations hit with $159.6k penalty for telemarketing breaches
By Peter Dinham
A breach of Australia’s telemarketing rules has cost American vacation time-share market company Wyndham Destinations Asia Pacific $159,600 in a fine imposed by Australia’s telecommunications regulator ACMA.
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Business Telecommunications
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