Cybersafety news stories

Malwarebytes has expanded its Nebula platform with a new DNS Filtering module designed to provide a quick, flexible, and comprehensive Zero Trust offering for Nebula users.

ChildFund says WEB Safe & Wise aims to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse online while also empowering them to become digitally savvy. 

Zoom has recently received a variety of third-party certifications, unveiled product innovations, and established programs, focusing on security and privacy.

TikTok has unveiled new details about the platform's work to safeguard and diversify its recommendation system. 

Waikato DHB was warned its IT security was severely compromised months before a massive ransomware attack that brought Waikato Hospital to its knees.

Data breaches and cyber-attacks are not singular events. They are an ongoing process with multiple steps.

Even with education and phishing tests, users continue to hand over legitimate logins to attackers, who in turn exploit them with a high degree of success.

Just like a compass, regularly reviewing the threat model keeps the CTI teams IR’s pointed in the right direction over time.

Recent cyber-events highlight the risks confronting enterprises that depend on a single vendor for their infrastructure, tools, and security.

The guiding principle of a zero trust security model is that no-one in an organisation — from a new recruit to the CISO — is granted intrinsic trust to access the network.

Mainframe-reliant organisations should maintain a robust security posture to ensure that data remains secure.

Extended detection and response (XDR) has become the white-hot name in the security world, writes Anomali senior VP and GM Stree Naidu.

The company has completed a ‘significant architectural redesign’ of its security in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

In Techday's third and final IT Jam with BeyondTrust, we speak to Marc Maiffret, who is the company's CTO.

Businesses should prioritise utilisation of readily available authentication technologies to prevent the ongoing phishing threat.

The MDR service offers customers remotely delivered security operation centre capabilities, which can be used to respond to threats.

The two new tools will give customers access to ‘comprehensive prevention, detection, and response protection across the attack surface’.

Identity and access management are poised to take centre stage in the next phase of corporate security revamp, writes Entrust security director for APJ James Cook.

Given the massive amounts of data enterprises hold, it may seem like an impossible task to prove what data was accessed and by whom. It isn’t. 

PAM can offer insight into risks that may be adjusted depending on the threat landscape, writes ThycoticCentrify chief security scientist Joseph Carson.

WatchGuard Technologies is a cybersecurity company specialising in endpoint security, secure Wi-Fi, multi-factor authentication, and network intelligence.

By implementing behavioural analytics and smart password practices, security teams can thwart credential-based attacks across the organisation.

Implementing advanced threat protection (ATP) as part of a zero trust SASE architecture is an important step in proactively blocking known and zero-day threats.

To prevent attacks, organisations should apply preventive security controls that reduce the attack surface and test those controls against a ransomware attack scenario.