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Cythera and our awareness training partner Infosec are trawling the waters for your best Phish.

Submit a copy of the best Phishing email you have seen OR submit a personally created phish email. Some great prizes on offer!

https://resources.cythera.com.au/phishing-competition

resources.cythera.com.au Cythera and our Partner Infosec IQ are trawling the waters for the best Phish. Submit a copy of the best Phishing email you have seen OR submit a personally created Phishing email. Register your details and we will send instructions to upload and go in the running to WIN three great prizes. 

Join Brian Krebs and our email security partner Abnormal Security as they dig deeper into the increasing use of social engineering by cyber criminals.

https://lnkd.in/dFejPCvy

Social Engineering: Cybercrime’s Force Multiplier with Brian Krebs | LinkedIn There seem to be new types of cybercrime attacks that emerge every week, requiring organizations and consumers to constantly second-guess each digital interaction they have. Although these scams vary in tactic, one thing remains the same—they employ the art of social engineering. Social engineerin...

So much for a quiet holiday period for security and IT teams!

The Perfect 10 – Remote Code Ex*****on in Apache Log4j Requiring Emergency Patching

https://www.cythera.com.au/blog/2021/12/13/the-perfect-10-remote-code-ex*****on-in-apache-log4j-requiring-emergency-patching/

The Perfect 10 - Remote Code Ex*****on in Apache Log4j Requiring Emergency Patching - Cythera CVE: CVE-2021-44228CVSS Score: 10 (Critical)What Is Vulnerable?: Apache Log4j Version 2.15-rc1 or prior. (All version prior to 2.15-rc1 arevulnerable) What’s Happening? A few nights ago, Alibaba’s Security team found a zero-day remote code ex*****on vulnerability within Apache’s Log4j. Log4j i...

We're excited to have been named Rapid7's Managed Partner of the year!

A huge honour and a testament to the team at Cythera and our fantastic customers.

Read more on our award: https://r-7.co/37Y7CN2

Even the mob needs cyber security!

In the news today is a good bit of police work which has demonstrated two things:

1. Modern, nuanced policing is far more effective than the cries of talkback radio … “you never seen any police when you need them”

2. Mark Twain remains relevant … “it's not what you don't know that kills you, it's what you know for sure that ain't true"

Central to this story is that the police developed an ostensibly secure messaging app called AN0M and seeded it within organised crime gangs who took to it with gusto (all the time with the police watching).

It's fair to say that this was a critical app for the operation of their organisation. It’s also fair to say an assessment as to it security provenance would have paid significant dividends. For the gangs we mean, not general society.

But we also know a few publicly listed companies with apps critical to their operations that are just about as secure; they don’t know who wrote them or who approved them or when.

So we guess Mark Twain wasn’t just talking about the mob.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/fbi-afp-underworld-crime-bust-an0m-cash-drugs-murder/100197246?utm_campaign=news-article-share-control&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web

'Heavy blow' for criminals as more than 200 underworld figures charged after app sting More than 200 members of Australia's mafia and bikie underworld have been arrested in the nation's biggest-ever crime sting, police say.