Security News > 2020 > September > Don't pay the ransom, mate. Don't even fix a price, say Australia's cyber security bods

Most online attacks could be easily avoided by following basic cyber security advice, Australia's national cyber security bureau has said - even as it warned that the impact and severity of things like ransomware attacks are getting worse and worse.

"Cybercriminals follow the money," said the Australian Cyber Security Centre in its annual report for 2019-20, published earlier this week.

ACSC was busiest in April 2020, when it had 318 "Cyber security incidents" reported to it.

"Many of these [attacks] could have been avoided or substantially mitigated by good cyber security practices," sighed the ACSC in the report, which covered the months July 2019-June 2020.

5G networks and Internet of Things devices "Require new thinking about how best to adopt them securely," opined ACSC. Britain has published design standards for IoT devices, while on 5G the US has addressed potential vendor security problems by shutting out those they deem to be problematic vendors.

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