BeyondTrust Partners with Secure Internet Storage Solutions to offer First Privileged Access Managed Security Service in Australia

New partnership expands BeyondTrust’s privileged access management and vulnerability management to a broader global base.   PHOENIX, July 19, 2017 – BeyondTrust, the leading cyber security company dedicated to preventing privilege misuse and stopping unauthorized access, announced Secure-ISS Pty Ltd as its first Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) partner in Australia, providing privileged access management
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PETYA Ransomware – Security Bulletin

Petya – Security Update Following on from the recent WannaCry ransomware threat that has swept the globe in the past month, another ransomware threat has escalated globally overnight, including reports of Australian companies being affected. How The Petya Threat Works Similarly to the WannaCry outbreak, Petya is generally distributed via url links emailed to users,
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WannaCry – What is it and how can we protect against it?

So you’ve no doubt heard about WannaCry (or wCry or WanaCrypt), running rampant and infecting significant public organisations across the globe (Kaspersky Lab have seen evidence of 74+ Countries infected during the initial 24 hours, with other reports estimating some 200,000+ machines now impacted across 140+ countries).     So how does it work? WannaCry
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WordPress password reset vulnerability – 03-05-2017

Vulnerability:   A new vulnerability has been found in all versions of WordPress up to and including the current release (4.7.4).  This vulnerability allows attackers to utilize the password reset functionality in WordPress to obtain the password reset link. Solution: WordPress has not yet released an update to counter exploit attempts, so in the mean time
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Event: Cybercrime is affecting you now – 28 February 2017

Secure-ISS and Kaspersky Lab in conjunction with IT Forum Gold Coast are hosting an event! “Everything you need to know about Cyber Crime” Today’s business world is fast paced and ever changing thanks to new technology; artificial intelligence developments and being connected to the world wide web or Internet. Unfortunately, with every step forward, there
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Secure-ISS Threat Intelligence Update : Week of November 13th, 2016

New Detection Technique – Adups Firmware According to security researchers from Kryptowire, an unknown backdoor built into a specific Android firmware has enabled secret monitoring of popular mobile devices. The user and device information were collected automatically and transmitted periodically to a server in China without the users’ consent or knowledge. The collected information was
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Hackers use Mail Chimp to spread malware

The importance of having strong, unique passwords has become ever relevant this week as the hack of a number of Mail Chimp accounts has come to light.   The hacks do not appear to be part of a widespread breach of Mail Chimp, rather more likely the result of the use of weak, reused passwords
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Secure-ISS Threat Intelligence Update: Week of November 6th, 2016

New Detection Technique – XM1RPC Spam Backdoor A new spam & backdoor campaign targeting WordPress sites has been discovered. It is dubbed ‘XM1RPC’, which refers to the filename ‘xm1rpc.php’ that is being used in the campaign to confuse the administrators familiar with XML-RPC. The malware is known to infect all the sites on the server
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Secure-ISS Threat Intelligence Update: Week of 30th October 2016

New Detection Technique – NoobCrypt NoobCrypt is a new ransomware family which earns its name due to the taunting messages that the victims receive when they enter an incorrect decryption password. However, the developer behind NoobCrypt made a mistake in which all files for all victims are encrypted with the same encryption key embedded in
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Secure-ISS Threat Intelligence Update: Week of 23rd October 2016.

New Detection Technique – ShinoLocker ShinoLocker is a ransomware simulator (or “educational” ransomware) developed by researcher Shota Shinogi as a way for people to test their security performance and utilities. According to the developer, the difference between ShinoLocker and real ramsomware is that ShinoLocker never asks for ransom and you don’t have to pay money
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