Blog & Insight

  Google is one of the first tech giants to be hit with a violation of the E.U.’s new privacy regulations which took affect early last year and has been fined close to $57 million by [...]

  A recent collection of email address and passwords were leaked online in a huge data leak known as Collection 1. Collection 1 is amongst the largest data breaches recorded in history, [...]

  The year is over, but cyber news didn’t slow down for the holidays. In December’s wrap-up, the Government has rushed through its encryption bill before Parliament let out for the year, a [...]

  Cyber Security Small Business Grants Now Available As cyber threats continue to grow and have even more devastating results, the Australian Government has started to take its cyber [...]

  Things are never boring in the cyber security world. This week we have news of an extended Chinese campaign to steal Australian business secrets, a joint defence effort between Australia [...]

  We’ve had another busy month, with cyber issues continuing to gain more traction in the news. From an attack on a major Australian shipbuilder to the PM calling out Russia for its [...]

  Is China Really Planting Chips to Spy on the the world? Last week, Bloomberg published an article claiming that China has been implanting chips to infiltrate US companies. It alleged that [...]

  Having an AWS environment or using Shopify does not mean your business is cyber secure. A lot of online businesses don’t think too much about their security. Someone else takes care of [...]

    You may not realise it, but your email does a great job at filtering out scams for you. By using filters that search for certain markers, the vast majority of phishing emails get [...]

  Gridware’s security roundup is back once more to cover the past month’s biggest security events. From laws to Lego, there was something for everyone in September’s information security [...]

  With the growing number of attacks in the news, people are starting to take their business’s cyber security more seriously. If it’s on your to-do list, you may be thinking that your first [...]

  By now, most people know what two-factor authentication (2FA) is–the security codes you get sent by your bank when you try to transfer money, or the ones that Facebook sends you when you [...]

  What’s happening in Australian cyber news? This month, there have been a number of key issues that businesses across the board should be aware of. These include news of risks to [...]

    Want to Stay Safe? Make Sure You Follow These Password Rules Between work, banking, social media and our hobbies, it’s not unusual for each of us to have dozens of accounts. [...]

    Security concerns about the Chinese tech company continue to pop up in the news. Should you be worried about Huawei’s involvement in Australia? Huawei has expanded rapidly to [...]

    In the cybersecurity domain, a buffer overflow is a mechanism where a software writes data to a buffer and subsequently overruns the buffer’s limitations, causing an overwrite [...]

In just the last 5 years, business leaders have changed the tone of their cyber security conversations. It is no longer a discussion about layers of defence or the beefiness of the firewall, [...]

    Cybersecurity continues to rise as a priority for Boards across Australia and the world, with major incidents in the media increasingly commonplace across various industries. Here [...]

    Organisations today face a lot more risks than they did even 5 years ago. Research into risk management has suggested organisations will continue to face the risk of significant [...]

    The ISO 27001 Certification is based on evaluating the manner in which businesses handle their information security management system (ISMS) issues. ISMS is the lifeline of any [...]

    Going to the Cloud is like switching off your electricity generator and moving to the power grid. Cloud mobility and the Internet of Things (IoT) has provided businesses with [...]

    With the passing of the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016, both private and public Australian organisations will now be obliged to notify the Office of the [...]

    Companies are increasingly facing different types of cyber threats. A recent Internet Security Threat Report by Symantec[1] indicates that more than 430 million new unique pieces of [...]