Across all countries surveyed, prioritisation was identified as the biggest organisational cybersecurity challenge (20%).More

"Businesses and organisations must act to prevent future cyber hacks, which is now costing New Zealand vast sums annually."More

This indicates hackers are targeting the weakest link in the security chain – end users.More

DNSWatchGO aims to fill security gap beyond the network perimeter, as new research shows 64% of remote users have fallen victim to a cyber-attack.More

Check Point Research discovered the vulnerability impacts phones from Samsung, Huawei, LG, and Sony.More

Kaspersky detects over 14 million phishing attempts in Southeast Asia for H1 2019.More

In just a three month period this year, New Zealanders reported more than 1000 cybersecurity incidents and financial losses of $6.5 million to CERT NZ.More

Barracuda’s research uncovered fresh insights into how these popular attacks are evolving and the tactics used by cybercriminals to try to make them successful.More

The information logistics firm was listed as one of the twelve most important providers of email security services in the world by Forrester Research.More

New insights from CCL reveal that a significant amount of New Zealanders are still falling for phishing email scams, due in part to impulsive email behaviour.More

Air New Zealand says information relating to membership profiles may have been visible on internal documents as a result of the breach.More

The survey includes responses from 660 executives, individual contributors and team managers serving in IT-security roles in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.More

Email attacks are having a major impact on businesses, with ever-evolving security concerns proving a challenge for IT security professionals.More

These scams use safety features to steal victims’ confidential data, and are ‘brandjacking’ trusted names in the industry to conduct their attacks.More

The new features aim to protect organisations’ most attacked people from phishing attempts, malware, and data loss risk, while boosting online training effectiveness.More

"One of the most striking aspects of this emerging attack is the scale of potential victims that the attackers target."More

“Implementing ongoing and effective security awareness training is a necessary foundational pillar when building a strong culture of security."More

New Zealanders reported direct financial losses of $1.7 million. While that is still a substantial loss, the figure is a 71% drop from the previous quarter.More

Close to 50% of Australian employees worked remotely for at least half the time, according to a 2018 survey by IWG. More

In a recent report by Dell EMC, it was discovered that data-loss incidents cost Singapore organisations an average of US$1.4 million over 12 months. More

Cryptolocker malware and ransomware is increasing at a rapid rate, with these threats rising 167% over the previous quarter.More

“Almost every vendor offered us tailored versions of malware as a way of targeting specific companies or industries,” says researcher Mike McGuire.More

Targeting one company rather than casting a wide net allows threat actors to take a more sophisticated approach. More

SolarWinds found the most common attacks were phishing (95%) and malware (86%), with a large step down to third place, ransomware (54%). More