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• Bot attacks costing companies $2M per breach

  About 90 per cent of credential abuse attacks are delivered from within Australia through local ISP networks, according to a report.

• Aussie businesses hit with ransomware and regulatory fines

  Businesses are having a hard time in ensuring compliance with regulatory obligations and securing against ransomware, a Telstra report shows.

• Flying blind in the cloud: How to see your way clear

  Think your enterprise-ready cloud service has taken care of everything? Think again.

• Data breaches on the rise as attacks get more complex

  There were 1361 confirmed data breaches reported worldwide in the first calendar quarter of 2014, up 119 per cent on the 621 breaches during the same period last year, according to Verizon.
  

• AusCERT 2013: Police urge banks to install ATM chip technology

  Australians will continue to be ripped off by international crime syndicates unless banks fast track the rollout of ATM chip technology, according to Queensland Police Detective Superintendent Brian Hay.

Whitepapers about security incidents

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  Upon discovering that someone has illegitimately accessed data on the network, IT managers initially believe (hope, really) that the threat came from outside. But as recent, headline-grabbing data breaches demonstrate, a lapse in internal security — whether accidental or malicious — is often what enabled the attack to succeed, in spite of robust external security. Download this whitepaper to see how to minimize the risk of the internal threat to the availability, confidentiality and integrity of AD.

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