Cash injection drives Menlo Security to Australian launch
‘Isolation’ architecture prevents malicious online content from reaching users’ devices
David Braue | 21 Oct | Read more
‘Isolation’ architecture prevents malicious online content from reaching users’ devices
David Braue | 21 Oct | Read more
Threat intelligence has become a nice-to-have for many vendors seeking to improve their security offerings, but for the executives leading Cisco’s Security Business Group it’s just the framework for a product-development process that is focused on maintaining a consistent, end-to-end network security architecture while supporting all manner of front-facing customer innovation.
David Braue | 06 Mar | Read more
Businesses wanting to improve their security practice need to reconsider the way they position cybersecurity within their business philosophy, a security analyst has told an audience of security practitioners while warning that the persistence of “terrifying” images of cybersecurity practitioners had challenged the progression of cybersecurity into becoming a mainstream business concern.
David Braue | 05 Mar | Read more
More than half of Australian companies believe they have very mature cybersecurity protections even though most are ignoring clear best-practice guidelines from the Australian Signals Directorate, according to a new end-user survey that also found just 46 percent of companies run staff security training more than once per year.
David Braue | 26 Sep | Read more
More than a third of reported Australian data breaches are due to human error, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has revealed as it released its first full-quarter statistical report about the functioning of the new Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme.
David Braue | 31 Jul | Read more
An unencrypted USB flash drive detailing airport security and anti-terror measures was found on a street and sparked an investigation by Heathrow Airport.
The days of cybersecurity being treated as a technology concern have passed us by. Cybersecurity is now and will remain a strategic business risk.
Dr Charlie Miller has been tagged as one of the world's best hackers after compromising a Jeep Cherokee from 10km with his colleague Chris Valasek.
Anthony Caruana | 13 Oct | Read more
Hacking a encrypted messaging app is now worth $500,000, or more than twice an exploit for hacking a mobile via cop-controlled mobile tower.
Researchers at Trend Micro and Cisco's Talos have identified a new wave of phishing attacks leveraging CVE-2017-0199, a previously patched remote code execution vulnerability in the OLE (Windows Object Linking and Embedding) interface of Microsoft Office.
Steve Ragan | 16 Aug | Read more
Protecting executives today is about much more than physically shielding them from danger.
Bob Violino | 16 Aug | Read more
Pharmaceutical company Merck said |it would take a long time to rebuild worldwide operations that have been crippled by the Petya malware attack, while there were revelations that the malware’s attack on Cadbury would cause a $140m hit on parent company Mondelez’s revenues.
David Braue | 07 Aug | Read more
UK security researcher credited with saving US firms from WannaCry ransomware held by US authorities.
Pronto Software is an Australian ERP software developer and vendor. The original company has been in the software business for over 40 years.
Anthony Caruana | 02 Aug | Read more
Apple's firmware for the HomePod points to a new face unlock feature for the iPhone 8 that replaces Touch ID.
Google claims its caught an Israeli cyber-arms dealer distributing Android spyware on the Play Store.
Swedish government in crisis mode after massive leak of military secrets and the nation's driver registry.
Executives have finally realised that the cybersecurity barbarians are at the gate - but it’s still up to CSOs to muster the technological and human defences to hold them off.
David Braue | 21 Jul | Read more
A disgruntled former employee, used off-the-shelf tools to destroy files and cause mayhem for Navarro Security
Christopher Burgess | 11 Jul | Read more
Observers of this month’s G20 meeting are still scratching their heads over the proposed strategic cybersecurity partnership between the United States and Russia, whose leader Vladimir Putin went into the meeting expecting chastising over alleged Russian interference in the US elections.
David Braue | 10 Jul | Read more