CyberCX

To ensure you can put your feet up and enjoy this festive season 🎄 our Digital Forensics and Incident Response team will be on hand should you need CyberCX to assist your organisation.   Our retainer customers can expect the same exceptional level of service as always, and our team will also be on standby for any other customers who need to reach out in the event of a cyber incident: https://lnkd.in/dB2wtnpm   We wish you all the happiest of holidays, and we're excited to continue securing our communities in 2025.

Technology has become a big part of the holiday season. From online shopping for presents to giving the gift of tech to your loved ones, the Christmas season and tech go hand in hand.   But with any tech can come risks – whether it’s dodgy e-commerce sites or common mistakes people make when securing the smart devices they open on Christmas day. After all, it’s a busy, stressful time of year where people can drop their guard.    In our latest blog, we asked our Hunted Cyber experts Leah Pinto, Carter Smith and Jay Banerji for their top tips for staying cyber secure this holiday season: https://lnkd.in/dBZk2ri4

🎾🏆 CyberCX is excited to be returning as the Official Cyber Security Partner of the Australian Open in 2025, our third year partnering with Tennis Australia and providing leading cyber security services to support the delivery of the Grand Slam tournament.    “It’s a privilege for CyberCX to be partnering with Tennis Australia over a number of years, and we are proud once again to be the Official Cyber Security Partner of the Australian Open as the eyes of the world turn to Australia for one of the pre-eminent sporting events globally," said CyberCX CEO John Paitaridis.    “As the biggest sport and entertainment event globally in January, it’s critical that we have the right supports in place and expertise on hand, which is why our partnership with CyberCX is such an important one," said Tennis Australia Chief Commercial Officer Cedric Cornelis.   Read more in the media release: https://lnkd.in/drMDSHsj

✈️🧳 It’s that time of year when people are getting ready for holiday travel, which means it's also when people start asking us “is it safe to use the hotel Wi-Fi?"   In the latest CyberCX blog, Jed Laundry writes that while “don’t use public Wi-Fi” can be a legitimate risk decision, it’s been a long time since anyone has actually asked him “why?”   So, from the vantage point of 2024, here’s Jed's expert analysis of the risks of free Wi-Fi and how to safeguard your devices if you find yourself needing to use the internet while on holiday: https://lnkd.in/dYugGtgn

CyberCX's Grant Walsh spoke to 10 News following warnings about a cyber espionage campaign by Chinese-backed group Salt Typhoon targeting telecommunications companies in the United States.   "The advice put out in recent days is really targeted at telcos and other critical infrastructure operators such as energy producers or gas producers or the other vital services that these types of threats and threat actors would seek to attack," said Grant. "It's not something that the average person really needs to be concerned about in their day-to-day lives."   "The targets of that type of activity are going to be really either high-profile individuals who are involved in serious organised crime, foreign intelligence services or individuals that are in politics, international relations or government."

A stellar group of CyberCX experts rounded out our program for Australian Information Security Association (AISA)'s CyberCon Melbourne 2024. 💻 "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that any enterprise claiming to not have any macOS devices, must be in want of better asset visibility," said Jed Laundry, who spoke about how to 'secure different' when securing macOS devices in an enterprise environment. 🗣️ "Good transferable skills, including excellent communication skills, will increase business efficiency," said Joanna Lescai, sharing her tips on how to boost cyber security resourcing with a strategic mindset change. "Productive collaboration across teams will help to build good culture." Congratulations to all our specialists who shared their knowledge with the 5,600+ delegates at this year's CyberCon: Ailie Houlihan, Allen Baranov, Bec C., Benji Z., Carter Smith, Chloe Pang, Fraser M., Hannah Quayle, Jed Laundry, Joanna Lescai, KS Lam, Lachlan McGrath, Melissa Wong, Murray Goldschmidt, Nicholas Commins, Phill Moore and Raafey Khan 👏

🛒 Black Friday marks the start of the biggest sales season of the year. But with pressure mounting on consumers to get Christmas shopping done and find good deals, scammers are on the hunt for new victims.   Our Financial Services Lead, Shameela Gonzalez, gives her top tips on how to avoid scams over the holiday period.   “It’s an exhausting time of year and people under pressure are more likely to make a mistake – but don’t let a Black Friday scam darken your holidays." said Shameela. "Do your online research into products and providers, buy directly from their website or trusted platforms, and don’t let a sense of urgency drop your guard.”    If you think you have been scammed, get in touch with your bank via a trusted contact number, and report the scam to the ACCC's Scamwatch: https://lnkd.in/gC95M9p Reach out to an expert at CyberCX if you would like to know more: cybercx.com.au

Our latest Technical Series blog details how, in late 2023, CyberCX identified two significant vulnerabilities in the OpenText Content Manager product as part of a customer engagement.   These vulnerabilities allowed low-privilege users to perform unauthorised actions in the system and to prevent actions from being recorded in audit logs. CyberCX promptly alerted OpenText and these vulnerabilities have now been patched.   Content Manager is an electronic document and records management system (EDRMS) used by government agencies, regulated industries, and large organisations to manage physical and electronic records.    Read the blog to learn what our team found, potential impacts, and which versions were affected: https://lnkd.in/eb7FKMmU

If a Black Friday deal seems to too good to be true, it probably is. That was the message from CyberCX's Alastair MacGibbon who spoke to Sunrise about how high volume holiday sales, in turn, attract a high volume of scammers. "People are looking for value, you go online for value. And during the frenzy of this period, which is the highest volume period for e-commerce, scammers play in there," said Alastair. "Criminals are more sophisticated using AI and other things to generate images, chat back to people, so it seems more human when the scammers are communicating back to the victims."   To reduce the likelihood of a scammer being at the other end of a bargain, Alastair said: 🔎 Do your online research into products and providers (don't click on ads, go to the website of the provider) ❗ Don't let a sense of urgency allow you to drop your guard 💳 Use proper payment methods like credit cards and PayPal

Joining ABC Radio National's Download This Show with Marc Fennell, CyberCX's Katherine Mansted discussed concerns and criticisms around the around the government's proposed Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation Bill 2024.   "It's not a bill that is telling Australians what to say or think," said Katherine. "It's really going after the platforms, asking them to come up with their own industry code for dealing with mis- and disinformation that the Australian Communications and Media Authority will then hold them to account for."   "You don't actually have to agree with the claims of think tanks and some politicians that this is a censorship bill or an anti-free speech bill in order to be worried by those claims," she continued. "Because if the Trump election has shown us anything, it's that when parts of the population feel that the information sphere is biased and that government is interfering with it, it pushes them to extremes."    Katherine said the task for the Australian government doesn't rest solely in making sure this bill works, but managing the perceptions that it doesn't. "That's even maybe a harder battle than the definitional one we're having now."   Listen to the full discussion here: https://lnkd.in/d_zMgKNM