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Aquilai has launched their cloud based Ajax Intelligence solution to combat all forms of email phishing prevalent on Microsoft Exchange, Office 365 and G Suite emails. Shaped in collaboration with GCHQ and National Cyber Security Centre staff, Ajax Intelligence is the most effective solution against email phishing available on the market. The architecture is optimised and validated as being effective against current and evolving phishing threats that will continue to impact all types of business,...

With the number of available threat intelligence sources continuing to grow, a third of CISOs feel under pressure as they cannot consume cybercrime intelligence easily or effectively. To help large companies overcome this challenge, Kaspersky Lab has launched Kaspersky CyberTrace – a free threat intelligence fusion and analysis tool. It aggregates and evaluates disconnected data feeds to help identify what threats pose a danger to the organisation and ensure security teams focus on the right...

Firefox Monitor is a Mozilla service that has partnered with Have I been Pwned to alert users when their email address has been discovered in a data breach. In the past, Firefox Monitor was a standalone service, but starting in Firefox 67 it will now be included as an extension. As part of a test in November 2018, Mozilla started displaying notifications to Firefox users when they visited a site that historically has had a data breach. You can see...

Federal agencies investigating breach, reported to be a ransom demand. Hackers have “scrambled” patient files at a Melbourne heart specialist clinic in what was reportedly a ransom attempt. The Australian Cyber Security Centre has confirmed it’s providing advice and assistance to the Melbourne Heart Group, which leases practice space from the Cabrini hospital in Malvern. “As the matter is ongoing, it is not appropriate to comment further,” a spokesman from the centre said. The Australian...

Attack is compatible with the activity of an Iranian state actor, U.S. cyber research company alleges. Hackers based in Iran and implicated in attacks on the U.S. and Western allies were behind a computer breach of Australia’s Parliament and political parties, a U.S. cyber research company alleged. Source: Wall Street Journal

The company has confirmed the attempted attack that took out its e-mail system, forcing employees to turn to other forms of communication to continue working. Toyota’s Australian subsidiary has been hit by a cyber attack, leaving employees without access to their e-mail messages for days, according to local media reports. In a statement today, Toyota Australia confirmed that it had been a victim of an “attempted cyber attack”, and that no private employee or customer...

Microsoft releases updates to fix bug that froze systems when IIS handled malformed HTTP/2 requests. The Microsoft Security Response Center published yesterday a security advisory about a denial of service (DOS) issue impacting IIS (Internet Information Services), Microsoft's web server technology. According to Microsoft, IIS servers shipped with Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 are impacted by a vulnerability when processing HTTP/2 requests. Source: ZDNet

baramundi software AG and Paessler AG have released a new interface as part of their partnership enabling the efficient connection of the Paessler PRTG Monitoring Software and the baramundi Management Suite. “In recent years, the number of endpoints to be managed in corporate networks has risen massively,” says baramundi CEO, Uwe Beikirch. “This trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. For administrators, this means a sharp increase in workload and complexity. You need...

Group FaceTime calls on the iPhone and other Apple products are still not working properly, after the company rushed to fix a major bug. Earlier this month, it emerged that it was possible to listen in on people through their iPhone by exploiting a bug in FaceTime, the app used to make audio and video calls over the internet. By adding someone into a group conversation, their phone would start ringing – and during that entire...

Privacy warriors have filed fresh evidence in their ongoing battle against real-time web ad exchange systems, which campaigners claim trample over Europe's data protection laws. The new filings – submitted today to regulators in the UK, Ireland, and Poland – allege that Google and industry body the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) are well aware that their advertising networks' business models flout the EU's privacy-safeguarding GDPR, and yet are doing nothing about it. The IAB, Google – which is...