Australian businesses need to up their ante against cyber threats, and implement a series of measures. These include ISO 27001, PCI DSS, pen testing, and others.
The advent of technology, especially of the digital kind, has made us more connected than ever and our lives fast and convenient. However, with digitization being embraced across organizations, domains, and geographies, cybercrime has reared its ugly head. It is...
Every organization is at risk from cyber threats that can disrupt essential services and potentially result in impacts to public safety. Over the past year, cyber incidents have impacted many companies, non-profits, and other organizations, large and small, across multiple...
PCI Card Production and Provisioning Security Requirements helps payment card vendors to secure the components and sensitive data involved in the payment cards’ production and provisioning. Card production includes card manufacturing; magnetic-stripe card encoding and embossing; card personalization; chip initializing, embedding,...
Background The Log4Shell critical vulnerability in the widely used logging tool Log4j has caused concern beyond the cyber security community. This is because Log4j - rather than being a single piece of software - is a software component that’s used by millions of computers worldwide running online services....
Background Apache Log4j2 is a ubiquitous library used by millions for Java applications; the library is part of the Apache Software Foundation’s Apache Logging Services project. The vulnerability CVE-2021-44228, disclosed on December 9, 2021, allows for remote code execution against...
Background BlackMatter is a new ransomware threat discovered at the end of July 2021. BlackMatter is ransomware-as-a-service (Raas) tool that allows the ransomware's developers to profit from cybercriminal affiliates (i.e., BlackMatter actors) who deploy it against victims. This malware started...
Background The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has released information on the uncovering of a widespread malicious email campaign undertaken by the activity group that Microsoft tracks as NOBELIUM. Nobelium, which operates from Russia, is the name given to the threat actor behind...
Background Cyber actors continue to exploit publicly known—and often dated—software vulnerabilities against broad target sets, including public and private sector organizations worldwide. However, entities worldwide can mitigate the vulnerabilities listed in this report by applying the available patches to their...
Cybernetic GI Security Bulletin provides a summary of CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses in 2021. Entries may include additional information provided by organizations. This data may include identifying information, values, definitions, and related links. The patch information is...