Cybercrime reports are increasing and malicious cyber activity continues to pose a risk to every Australian. Cyber security is everyone’s business. By taking simple steps, everyone can help make the most secure place to connect online.

The European Cybersecurity Month (ECSM) is the European Union’s annual campaign dedicated to promoting cybersecurity among EU citizens and organisations, and to providing up-to-date online security information through awareness raising and sharing of good practices. Each year, for the entire month of October, hundreds of activities take place across Europe, including conferences, workshops, trainings, webinars, presentations and more, to promote digital security and cyber hygiene.

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and the FBI is reminding the public to be cyber smart all year long. National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, now in its 20th year, is hosted by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Cyber Security Alliance. Multiple agencies, including the FBI, collaborate to raise awareness about cybersecurity and stress the collective effort needed to stop cyber intrusions and online thefts and scams.

As our online lives expand, the average user has gone from having just a few passwords to now managing upwards of 100. That’s 100 unique passwords to remember, if you’re using strong password habits. Password managers can save users the trouble of having to remember multiple passwords and make accounts safer by recommending strong, unique passwords and storing the mall in one place.

Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RAJHNI YANKANA, 28, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to five months of imprisonment, followed five months of home detention and three years of supervised release, for defrauding Amazon.com, Inc. (“Amazon”).

Digital technologies today touch nearly every aspect of American life — from our classrooms and communities, to our economy and national security.  That is why — this Cybersecurity Awareness Month — my Administration renews our commitment to securing cyberspace and seizing the unlimited potential of our digital future. 

U.S. defense officials held a hybrid in-person and virtual meeting today with People's Republic of China (PRC) defense officials at the invitation of the Department of Defense to discuss its recently released Cyber Strategy Summary, in accordance with the 2014 U.S.-PRC Memorandum of Understanding on Notification of Major Military Activities Confidence Building Measure Mechanism. Following the briefing, the two sides engaged in substantive discussion on a range of cyber-related topics.

Lunchtime Cybersecurity Dialogues: 12 Virtual Lunchtime Q&A's During Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Produced by Billington CyberSecurity

A computer system administrator and his spouse pleaded guilty today to participating in a massive international scheme to make millions of dollars by selling pirated business telephone system software licenses. The entire scheme allegedly resulted in the sale of software licenses with a retail value of over $88 million.

Good afternoon, everyone. I first want to thank Kevin Mandia for hosting this conference and for inviting me here to speak with all of you today. Any time so many leaders—from the private sector, and the government, and around the world, both managers and front-line defenders—get together in one room, cyberspace becomes a little bit safer.

At a conference with the cybersecurity community, FBI Director Christopher Wray reaffirmed the FBI’s stance on countering artificial intelligence (AI) and cyberspace threats and posed a call to action to strengthen private sector and government partnerships in fighting both domestic and foreign adversaries.

This guide defines ransomware and describes what actions organizations should take to prepare, prevent, and respond to ransomware attacks.

In this scheme, someone posing as an official of the Nigerian government, the Nigerian Central Bank, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation or one of various other businesses (usually with an African origin) contacts a foreign individual or company by fax, e-mail or regular mail, seeking assistance in the recovery of money.  To the embarrassment of Nigeria’s government, this operation is estimated to be the third or fourth largest revenue source for that country’s economy.

Today (Sept. 12, 2023), the Department of Defense (DOD) released an unclassified summary of its classified 2023 Cyber Strategy.

How you can protect yourself against the different forms of cybercrime. Police Scotland advises.

Today, CISA released an Open Source Software Security Roadmap to lay out—in alignment with the National Cybersecurity Strategy and the CISA Cybersecurity Strategic Plan—how we will partner with federal agencies, open source software (OSS) consumers, and the OSS community, to secure OSS infrastructure.

MGM Resorts recently identified a cybersecurity issue affecting some of the Company's systems. Promptly after detecting the issue, we quickly began an investigation with assistance from leading external cybersecurity experts. We also notified law enforcement and took prompt action to protect our systems and data, including shutting down certain systems. 

BOSTON – A Russian businessman was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his involvement in an elaborate hack-to-trade scheme that netted approximately $93 million through securities trades based on confidential corporate information stolen from U.S. computer networks.

President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) welcomed TWN48, the Taiwanese hacker team who won 3rd place at DEF CON’s Capture the Flag competition in Las Vegas last month. President Tsai congratulated the team on Monday at the presidential office on their exceptional performance and said she hoped that they can contribute to Taiwan’s digital security. 

On September 11, 2001, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people and injured more than 6,000 others in the worst attack against the United States in our history. Today we honor their memories and stand with the families and friends of those who perished in New York City, Arlington, Virginia, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Your car knows a lot more about you than you think. That private conversation you just had with your doctor while driving home? It could have been recorded using your car’s microphones. Your trip to an abortion clinic, a gay bar, or a domestic violence shelter? It was probably collected, logged, and recorded by your car’s many sensors and GPS trackers. 

WASHINGTON — Today (September 7, 2023), the United States, in coordination with the United Kingdom, sanctioned eleven individuals who are part of the Russia-based Trickbot cybercrime group. Russia has long been a safe haven for cybercriminals, including the Trickbot group. Today’s action was taken by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is concurrently unsealing indictments against nine individuals in connection with the Trickbot malware and Conti ransomware schemes, including seven of the individuals designated today.

ALERT: There are two new vulnerabilities in Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch which allow an attacker to infect a device. They do this by sending a malicious image or attachment and requires no recipient action. CERT NZ recommends updating your device as soon as possible to iOS 16.6.1, iPadOS 16.6.1, macOS 13.5.2, and watchOS 9.6.2. This is a good reminder to enable automatic updates where possible.

(Washington, DC) - U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, joined U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-ID) and a bipartisan group of senators in introducing the Small Business Cyber Resiliency Act to provide small businesses with improved access to top-of-the-line cybersecurity tools and information. 

Three indictments in three different federal jurisdictions have been unsealed charging multiple Russian cybercrime actors involved in the Trickbot malware and Conti ransomware schemes.

Technical innovation can be harnessed for social good, but just as readily for nefarious ends. This is truer of cybercrime than of perhaps any other crime area. And cybercriminals are also getting more aggressive. That’s why Europol and its partner organisations are taking the fight to them on all fronts.

Cybersecurity is the art of protecting networks, devices, and data from unauthorized access or criminal use and the practice of ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information. It seems that everything relies on computers and the internet now—communication (e.g., email, smartphones, tablets), entertainment (e.g., interactive video games, social media, apps ), transportation (e.g., navigation systems), shopping (e.g., online shopping, credit cards), medicine (e.g., medical equipment, medical records), and the list goes on. How much of your daily life relies on technology? How much of your personal information is stored either on your own computer, smartphone, tablet or on someone else's system?

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA), and agencies in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and New Zealand today published a joint report on a malware campaign conducted by Russian cyber actors against the Ukrainian military.