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While hybrid work has driven the adoption of Zero Trust, the new approach to cybersecurity is not yet used on a large scale, says Cloudflare.

Financial services firms smashed. Print article Credential stuffing jumped by 45 per cent in one year. Photo: Shutterstock Banks, investment firms and other financial services and insurance (FSI) companies suffered from a massive boost in cybercriminals’ attention during 2020, according to a new analysis that identified 3.4 billion credential-stuffing attacks targeted at FSI firms alone. That included a 45 per cent year-on-year jump in credential stuffing – in which cybercriminals use sto...

January 25, 2021 Reuters Phase 3 is here, but are businesses really ready for it? When Covid-19 struck, it took us all by surprise. Even as businesses and Governments took unprecedented steps and implemented a Circuit Breaker (CB), meaning employees had to get used to what is now being called the “ New Normal ”. As we began to Work- From- Home (WFH), we began to embrace tools like Zoom and Microsoft’s Teams as webcams and stable Internet access became increasingly important and overseas t...

Technology by Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson Premium Content   Eastern bloc hacking cartels are extracting more than one billion dollars a year from Australian businesses in a criminal enterprise so successful the gangs are now recruiting affiliates, hiring call centres, and branching into extortion. Ransomware attacks have soared in Australia in 2020 and the price of ransoms has grown even faster, experts warn, with criminals now demanding several hundred thou...