Australian techhead Mark Pesce made some waves after designing a way to send encrypted tweets using his CrypTweet applications. It's an interesting approach but the still-evolving platform has been slammed by observers as being at an early stage, and compromised by inherent characteristics of the Twitter platform.
David Braue | 27 Feb | Read more
IPv6 has been in and out of the news, but more in recently than out as the online world gears up for the protocol’s big debut in June. Network engineers contemplating their own deployments may want to consider [[xref: http://www.cso.com.au/article/415212/ipv6_dual-stack_strategy_starts_perimeter/| their security practices|]] and rolling the protocol in from the edge of the network.
David Braue | 20 Feb | Read more
It’s not time to run for the hills quite yet, but you might want to start packing. That's effectively the conclusion of a new report from security vendor Blue Coat, which in its latest state-of-security report has warned about everything from in-detectable malware to the explosion in 'malvertising'.
David Braue | 15 Feb | Read more
Confident you would notice if your systems were being hacked? You’re in the minority: A new survey has found just 16 per cent of organisations hit by a breach last year noticed it before someone else told them about it. That’s hardly surprising given another study that found many of the worst malware offenders are using methods that antivirus software just can’t spot or deal with.
David Braue | 13 Feb | Read more
Kids these days. Where once toilet-papering the school gymnasium was considered a genius sort of prank, US authorities in Nebraska were flummoxed when a school experiencing intermittent network access was found to have been hacked in an unusual way.
David Braue | 06 Feb | Read more
News of new security breaches continued to roll in throughout the week, with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) kicking off the week with a warning that users of online stockbroking services should review their security, change their passwords, and ensure all software was current. Seems someone has been poking their heads where they shouldn't be, and ASIC is eager to prevent any more unwanted intrusions.
David Braue | 30 Jan | Read more
While much of the online world followed Wikipedia’s unprecedented SOPA legislation protest, security concerns provided a more definitive solution as the Obama administration promised to veto SOPA on the basis that it would push people to “dangerous, unreliable DNS servers” and compromise secure improvements like DNSSEC.
David Braue | 20 Jan | Read more
It may be that 2<a href="http://www.cso.com.au/article/411067/2011_year_ddos_/" target="_blank">011 was the year of the DDoS</a>, but security experts warn that 2012 could shape up to be the year businesses really pay the piper as a broad range of attacks pummel them for years spent overlooking and underfunding their security.<br />
David Braue | 23 Dec | Read more
Reeling in the wake of hacks that disrupted the certificate authority (CA) industry earlier this year, CA issuers are converging around a new self-imposed standard that sets baseline requirements for the security methods used to identify trusted Web sites online.
David Braue | 22 Dec | Read more
End users everywhere are demanding that IT executives figure out how to let them bring their own smartphones and laptops to work. Yet even as consumerisation tops lists of IT priorities for 2012, vendors are taking new approaches to security as a majority of CIOs worry that the BYO pendulum has swung too far and will, through the normalisation of off-net mobility, create new business risks due to unaddressed shortcomings in management and security strategies.
David Braue | 19 Dec | Read more
Thin-client and virtualisation specialist vendor Citrix Systems has been talking about the virtualisation of the desktop for years, but an A-grade customer win would seem to back up the company’s recent claims that ever-better security is bringing desktop virtualisation into the mainstream even within the most security-conscious environments.
David Braue | 12 Dec | Read more
Australia may be located half a world away from the heavily-populated European and US zones, but that hasn't stopped us from claiming the crown as one of the world's most heavily-attacked countries, according to figures released this week as part of Symantec's latest Symantec Intelligence Report.
David Braue | 08 Dec | Read more
The emergence of a new SQL injection attack has done nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of industry analysts that remain confident enterprise data will be pushed into cloud-hosted databases on an ever-increasing basis.
David Braue | 07 Dec | Read more
They may not say it out loud, but I'd bet most network managers and security executives tell themselves over and over again that their end-users are idiots.
David Braue | 01 Dec | Read more
Large-volume hackers have become cloud pioneers, utilising public infrastructure to threaten companies that often effect ambitious but poorly-considered cloud-computing strategies, a security industry technologist has warned.
David Braue | 01 Dec | Read more