Topic: cybersecurity awareness
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Unlock Cyber Resilience: Security Awareness Month 2025
Cybersecurity Awareness Month emphasizes the need for collective digital defense as identity-based attacks, accounting for nearly 80% of incidents, exploit compromised credentials to bypass traditional perimeter security. Adopting zero trust principles, such as least privilege and just-in-time ac...
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Boost Your Cyber Security Awareness Now
Australia is increasing its cyber safety efforts by participating in Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an international initiative to bolster digital defenses. KnowBe4 has launched its seventh "Secure Our World" resource kit to offer practical training and tools for individuals and businesses to enh...
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AI Phishing Surge Sparks Cybersecurity Alarm in Australia
Australian organizations and individuals are experiencing a surge in AI-powered phishing attacks, with 46% of employed adults admitting to engaging with fraudulent messages in the past year, highlighting significant cybersecurity awareness and implementation gaps. The survey reveals that 73% of A...
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Beware of Celebrity Podcast Scams, Experts Warn
A sophisticated scam targets business owners and influencers with fake celebrity podcast invitations, aiming to gain unauthorized remote access to computers and hijack social media accounts. Scammers pose as podcast managers, offering payment for appearances and then using remote access tools dur...
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Critical WinRAR RCE Flaw Fixed—Update Now (CVE-2025-6218)
A critical security flaw (CVE-2025-6218) in WinRAR allows attackers to manipulate file paths, potentially leading to remote code execution on vulnerable systems. The vulnerability is patched in WinRAR 7.12 beta 1, and users of versions 7.11 or earlier must update immediately to avoid exploitation...
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Apple Patches Critical Zero-Day Flaw in "Extremely Sophisticated Attack"
Apple has released a critical security update to address a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-43300) that was exploited in a sophisticated attack against specific individuals, allowing arbitrary code execution via malicious image files. The vulnerability, caused by improper bounds checking in the I...
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