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

Fake cryptocurrency apps on Google Play have been discovered to be phishing and scamming users out of cryptocurrency, according to a new report from ESET. More

While there are occasionally very advanced new threats, these are massively outnumbered by common-or-garden email fraud, ransomware attacks and well-worn old exploits.More

There's a serious gap between IT pros and general staff, and this expert says it's on the people in IT to bridge it.More

A recent survey undertaken by CSO made some interesting findings in the state of cybercrime in Australia.More

Far from becoming obsolete in the face of new cybersecurity software and systems, phishing is just as effective now as it always has been.More

Proofpoint says commonly targeted accounts are not necessarily people who are known or actively tracked by the security team.More

Over a dozen US-based web servers from far-right linked hosting service are being used to target businesses with mass phishing campaigns spreading malware. More

The report analyses survey results from different industries, organisation sizes and IT team sizes.More

WatchGuard's Internet Security Report for Q4 2018 also finds growing use of a new sextortion phishing malware customised to individual victims.More