Security for Australian law firms

2023 State of Cyber Maturity for Australian Law Firms​           The 2023 State of Cyber Maturity for Australian Law Firms survey invited legal professionals to share their approaches, motivations, decision making, and management towards cyber security.  DotSec commissioned independent market research firm Momentum Intelligence to conduct the survey in collaboration with Lawyers Weekly.  The […]

Not the patches you’re looking for

PCI DSS confusion: These are not the patches you are looking for!           In the course of our PCI DSS-related work, we’ve noticed one issue that often causes some confusion for many clients:  Do missing operating system or application patches need to be applied, even if those missing patches are only […]

Magento as the coal-miner’s canary

Using Magento as the coal-miner’s canary           Regular review of web-application logs is not only a requirement for various compliance regimes (such as the PCI-DSS or various IRAP-based programs), it can actually give you good insight into vulnerabilities which arise outside of the web-application itself. In this post we describe how […]

It’s still borked?

Neiman Marcus breach. Again. A long time ago*…… Waaay back, in 2013, high-end retailer Neiman Marcus was breached, resulting in a loss of data related to about 370,000 customers.  Well needless to say, those 370,000-ish customers weren’t happy and they launched a class action claiming that Neiman Marcus was accountable for the breach which resulted […]

What? It’s borked?

SIEM: When on earth did that happen?           Can you imagine that a reputable organisation would deploy a business-critical security service without first designing and testing it, and then reviewing it to ensure that it operated as expected?  Or, would you expect an organisation to allow a security service that was […]