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The healthcare industry was the hardest hit, with 97% of all hostile activity targeted at the industry being web application or application-specific attacks.

Waikato Hospital has this morning begun turning outpatients away from scheduled bookings after a major outage affecting its IT and phone systems.

Zscaler has announced its new Ransomware Report highlighting the most prolific ransomware actors, their attack tactics, and the industries being targeted.

Auckland digital transformation firm Journey Digital is expanding into Europe and the wider EMEA region with a new UK office.

Ireland's National Cyber Security Centre points to the 'Conti' ransomware variant, which caused the HSE's IT systems to shut down over the weekend.

The scam campaign comprised a network of 134 websites that attempted to lure people in by asking them to take a survey for a monetary reward.

Fortinet's new FortiGate 7121F and FortiExtender 511F-5G aim to enhance security and speed up the adoption of 5G networks.

Ransomware attacks on high profile victims has grown nearly eightfold from 2019 to 2020, according to new research from Kaspersky.

Cybercrime trends in 2020 included increased phishing attacks, monetary gain, and supply chain attacks, according to a report by Keysight Technologies.

The FIDO Alliance has created a new IoT onboarding standard to enhance security, cost, and complexity challenges in device deployment.

Egnyte launches new integrations with Microsoft 365 for improved insight and security, targeting mid-sized organisations.

COVID-19-themed threats and Powershell malware surge, according to McAfee's Threats Report. Average threats reached 648 per minute, a 10% increase.

Fireless malware attacks and cryptominers are surging, while ransomware attacks are declining, says WatchGuard Technologies' Internet Security Report.

Australia and New Zealand plan to use mobile messaging to drive their COVID-19 vaccination campaigns and build citizen trust in the process.

Wavelink bolsters its team in Australia and New Zealand with three new appointments to support vendors and partners in the region.

Yubico is partnering with Microsoft to offer 25,000 free YubiKey security keys to high profile and high risk organisations across 31 countries.

Jamf has acquired technical assets from cmdSecurity to enhance its Apple device management platform with new security capabilities.

Adversaries are highly adaptable as they conduct sophisticated attacks, particularly against remote workers, digital supply chains, and core networks.

IBM has launched IBM Cloud Satellite, its hybrid cloud services platform, which is now available on any cloud, on premises, or at the edge.

IBM partners with Portworx by Pure Storage to bring OpenShift-based data services to hybrid cloud environments on IBM Cloud Satellite.