Phishing and skimming scams are common at tax time. Scammers know that we’re expecting communications from the Australian Tax Office. So, they can insert themselves into your tax return process by pretending to be the ATO. To stop you thinking critically about what’s happening, they’ll often try to create an emotional reaction. Again, influencing you …
Do your employees receive work calls, texts, or emails on mobile devices? Do you have strategies in place to minimise the security gaps this can create? As businesses, we’re online more than ever before. So are our employees. It’s a great opportunity to provide better service to customers. But there’s a dark side, too. Blurred …
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Data breaches have been big news in 2023 to date. We’ve seen a lot of them – and we’re only halfway through the year! Cyber crime is ramping up. Ransomware as a service is very lucrative. Criminals looking for data to sell hire groups who already have all the infrastructure in place to run …
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Discover effective password management techniques, avoid common pitfalls, and protect yourself from cyber threats. So, how do you manage your passwords? That’s a question LastPass asked in its 2022 Psychology of Passwords Report. And the data it got back was… less than reassuring: Just 73% of people thought that they had good password management methods. However, …
Clean desk policies may appear excessive, but our work desks are extensions of ourselves and we like to add some personal touches to them! The problem occurs when your organisation loses control of its data. A password on a sticky note stuck to a monitor. A business plan mentioned where non-employees can hear. Customer data …
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Baiting is a cyber attack strategy. It involves offering a false promise or a trap of some kind. The result that attackers seek is to get someone to load malware onto their network – either using a clickable link or physical objects. Many baiting attacks rely on human greed or desire. However, others take a …
As we celebrate Privacy Awareness Week (1-7 May), it’s important to recognise that our personal information is more vulnerable than ever before. Now is the perfect time to learn about the steps you can take to keep your private information safe. In this blog post, we’ll explore some of the most common types of private …
In our latest blog post we take a look at the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Cybersecurity Cooperative Research Centre’s Cybersecurity Governance Principle 4 : promote a culture of cyber resilience. Firstly, what is cyber resilience? It’s when an organisation can: Respond quickly to incidents. Continue functioning during ongoing attacks. Block secondary access attacks during …
We’re continuing our series of blog posts about the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre’s Cybersecurity Governance Principles. These principles help to guide boards in leading cyber strategy. Today’s blog post is all about principle 3: embed cybersecurity in existing risk management practices. Cyber strategy involves risk. You can’t …
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Running a business without a cyber incident strategy is like riding a bike without a helmet. Sure you can probably go pretty far with no worries. But when you do run into trouble, the lack of a cyber strategy is going to cause you extra problems. Suddenly your life – or your business – is …
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