Across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure environments in Australia and globally, 59% of IAM users maintain access keys that have never expired—credentials that have been active for more than one year. These long-lived credentials represent a silent but catastrophic vulnerability in your cloud infrastructure. This blog explores why long-lived credentials have become the primary attack vector for identity-based breaches, how red teams exploit them during penetration tests, and what you must do today to eliminate this ticking time bomb.
Critical authentication bypass vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiGate and related products (CVE-2025-59718 and CVE-2025-59719) are now under active attack, allowing "ghost" SSO logins that completely sidestep normal controls and logs. For Australian organisations, this is more than a VPN or firewall problem – it is a board-level exposure that directly tests whether your external penetration testing, internal penetration testing, and red team assessment services are capable of simulating SSO abuse, identity takeovers, and lateral movement across hybrid networks.
A new security flaw called React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182) puts Australian businesses at extreme risk. It has a severity score of CVSS 10.0, which is the highest possible rating. This flaw lets hackers take full control of your servers without needing a password. It affects the popular tools React and Next.js.
A critical vulnerability in Adobe Commerce and Magento (CVE-2025-54236), dubbed "SessionReaper," is being ruthlessly exploited by threat actors using AI-driven tools to automate attacks at machine speed. With the Australian holiday trading season in full swing, this unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) flaw poses an immediate existential threat to retail and B2B organizations. This alert outlines the mechanics of the attack, the role of AI in its weaponization, and the urgent defensive actions required to prevent a catastrophic data breach.
A zero-click vulnerability, CVE-2025-21042, in millions of Samsung devices is being actively exploited to install "LANDFALL," a commercial-grade spyware. This threat, now on CISA's KEV catalog , transforms an executive's personal device into a silent corporate surveillance tool, completely bypassing your MDM and EDR. For Australian organisations with BYOD policies, this is a critical, reportable data breach scenario under the NDB scheme.
The many competitive advantages of ecommerce cannot be taken lightly. Offering online business and consumers alike a far improved productivity, significant reduction in costs, access and entry into a global business market, ability to provide a much improved customer service and streamlining business processes; are all reasons for brick and mortar businesses to open up their virtual shop.
Your perimeter security is the first and foremost layer of defense in your network, which is why it’s of the utmost importance to step back and review its design very carefully. The obvious step that you will need to take when it comes to ensuring a sound architecture, is determining what needs to be protected and then designing your network perimeter security in such a way that it can easily adapt according to your needs as they grow or change.
The size of your company doesn’t matter when it comes to protecting your business’s website network. Hackers will be still attracted to your company’s vital data and information whether it’s a big company, small or just starting out in the field. This is the reason why, having a rock solid security defense of the network is of the utmost importance.
DDoS protection basically refers to a succession of actions that endeavor to protect the network against potential DDoS attacks. Many people ask why it is important to have the network protected against DDoS attacks. This is a common question because most people are not aware of the risks and possible damages associated with DDoS attacks. DDoS protection plans can only be appreciated by people who are conscious of the destruction caused by such attacks.
Web applications have been in trend for a while now and they keep on advancing. They have perhaps penetrated all the crucial segments of our daily lives that include our corporate and business world as well. Business applications related to accounting, customer relationship Management, collaboration, Enterprise Resource Management, online banking, content management, E-commerce are now all made available on the Internet. Web Applications have played a vital role in increasing speed and accessibility to all kinds of business information for an enterprise’s clients, partners and employees. They have also assisted in allowing savings. Today, not only have most things shifted to the web but almost all of them host a business’ most sensitive and valuable data.
Cloud computing is normally defined as computing that is Internet-based. It is basically a huge network of computers where data and other resources that need to be shared like software and applications are made available to numerous systems. Nowadays, cloud computing is one of the most sought technological advancements due to its immensely flexible functioning nature. Cloud has demonstrated to be very efficient and effective for businesses in the past few years and it is still growing incredibly fast.
Web applications are essential to a business as they strive to influence and boost the online presence of a business to create continuing and profitable relationships with its customers and prospects. As more and more businesses are embracing the boons of taking it all online, the use of web applications is seemingly increasing.
In the current world, web and computer networks serve as the backbone of any enterprise and thus web applications play an integral part in the progress of a business. Companies generally, significantly invest in order to construct Web applications that will help in their betterment and progress of their business. No business wants to deal with the consequences of their web applications being infected because they know it will end up affecting the entire business.
