Malicious or criminal attacks were the largest source of data breaches in Australia in the three months to the end of June this year, accounting for 62% of all data breaches, according to a new report from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC).

Email attacks are having a major impact on businesses around the world and impacting the personal lives of IT security professionals, with a new study finding that phishing and ransomware attacks are the most significant concern for the IT professionals.

Attackers who breached networks at India's second largest outsourcing company, Wipro, were part of a sophisticated campaign that used both commercial and open-source marketing tools to hit many organisations with phishing attacks. Most of these were firms that deal in gift cards.