This month in security: February 2020

Deep fakes are under research, romance scams are on the rise, ransomware attacks are getting bolder and Coronavirus fears spark a new wave of malware. 

Why CEOs can be the weakest link in cybersecurity

Research by Vanson Bourne revealed 44% of respondents believed that their CEO was the weak link in their cybersecurity operation.

This month in security: January 2020

Emotet comes back from the holidays, Jeff Bezos’s phone gets hacked, the NSA discovers a major Windows vulnerability and P&N Bank in WA suffers a data breach.

This month in security: December 2019

China bans deepfakes, New Zealand introduces a new data privacy Bill, hackers make off with $1 million and O365 disruptions plague APAC.

Raising the bar for data protection: New Zealand poised to revamp the nation’s privacy policy

New Zealand’s new Privacy Bill seeks to upgrade the protection of private and personal information held by businesses.

O365 disruptions wreak havoc across APAC: the case for business continuity

For digital companies, any length of downtime can translate into a big loss of productivity. Businesses across APAC were reminded of this when O365 went down earlier this week.

This month in security: September 2019

US authorities continued their BEC Takedown with more arrests, the first recorded deep-fake AI-generated voice scam and human error caused the breach of Australian health records.