Security News

DDoS Attacks Surge 46% in First Half of 2024, Gcore Report Reveals
2024-08-14 06:47

Monitoring evolving DDoS trends is essential for anticipating threats and adapting defensive strategies. The comprehensive Gcore Radar Report for the first half of 2024 provides detailed insights...

StickmanCyber Report: A Look Inside Australia’s Cybersecurity Skills Crisis
2024-08-13 18:26

A new report has found that Australia's available pool of cybersecurity skills is smaller than realised. The report, Australia's Cybersecurity and Technical Skills Gap, an analysis by security provider StickmanCyber and based on an analysis of ABS census and labour force data, revealed a shortage of 10,000 technical roles throughout the country.

Report: Tech misconceptions plague the IT world
2024-08-08 10:31

The results demonstrate that the infosec community still needs to do more to educate users on staying safe online. Twenty-five percent stuck their smartphone in a special cover so hackers couldn't steal their data.

Data Breaches Are Costing Australian Organisations, IBM Report Reveals
2024-08-06 14:00

IBM recently released its annual Cost of a Data Breach report, revealing that the average cost of a data breach in Australia reached a record-high of AUD $4.26 million in 2024. Initial attack vectors: Phishing was the most common initial attack vector, accounting for 22% of breaches and costing businesses AUD $4.35 million per breach on average.

Keytronic reports losses of over $17 million after ransomware attack
2024-08-05 16:49

Electronic manufacturing services provider Keytronic has revealed that it suffered losses of over $17 million due to a May ransomware attack. [...]

Australian Organisations Experiencing Highest Rate of Data Breaches, Reports Rubrik
2024-07-31 17:27

Australian organisations have reported the highest rate of data breaches compared with global markets in 2023, according to a new survey. The State of Data Security: Measuring Your Data's Risk report, based on a survey of 1,600 global IT and security leaders as well as telemetry data from 6,100 Rubrik customers, gauged the frequency of cyber incidents related to business email compromises, data breaches, ransomware attacks, insider incidents and inadvertent data exposure.

Progress discloses second critical flaw in Telerik Report Server in as many months
2024-07-26 13:32

Progress Software's latest security advisory warns customers about the second critical vulnerability targeting its Telerik Report Server in as many months. Some of you may remember CVE-2019-18935, another deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability affecting Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX. It was used by multiple attackers including an unspecified Advanced Persistent Threat group to successfully target US federal agencies in 2023, despite being added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerability catalog in 2021.

Progress fixes critical RCE flaw in Telerik Report Server, upgrade ASAP! (CVE-2024-6327)
2024-07-26 06:39

Progress Software has fixed a critical vulnerability in its Telerik Report Server solution and is urging users to upgrade as soon as possible. Telerik Report Server is an enterprise solution for storing, creating, managing and viewing reports in web and desktop applications.

Critical Flaw in Telerik Report Server Poses Remote Code Execution Risk
2024-07-26 04:10

Progress Software is urging users to update their Telerik Report Server instances following the discovery of a critical security flaw that could result in remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-6327, impacts Report Server version 2024 Q2 and earlier.

Progress warns of critical RCE bug in Telerik Report Server
2024-07-25 15:46

Progress Software has warned customers to patch a critical remote code execution security flaw in the Telerik Report Server that can be used to compromise vulnerable devices. As a server-based reporting platform, Telerik Report Server provides centralized storage for reports and the tools needed to create, deploy, deliver, and manage them across an organization.