Turnbull, Morrison defend Census security
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Treasurer Scott Morrison have both sought to reassure Australians in the wake of privacy concerns over the 2016 Census.
Rohan Pearce | 04 Aug | Read more
Stories by Rohan Pearce
Victorian government agencies get data security standards
Victoria’s Commissioner for Privacy and Data Protection, David Watts has issued the Victorian Protective Data Security Standards (VPDSS).
Rohan Pearce | 27 Jul | Read more
MYOB seeks cyber security chief
MYOB has begun hunting for an executive to head up cyber security.
Rohan Pearce | 20 Jul | Read more
Government-private sector collaboration vital for cyber security: Brandis
The Australian Cyber Security Centre offers “a single location for government and business to collaborate on operational cyber security matters” and “represents a fundamental shift in the way that government wants to partner with business on cyber security,” Attorney-General George Brandis has said in remarks prepared for the ACSC’s Canberra conference today.
Rohan Pearce | 22 Apr | Read more
Business booms for cloud encryption provider after PRISM revelations
Cloud encryption provider CipherCloud has seen accelerated growth in the wake of revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden of the massive level of surveillance of Internet traffic by the US National Security Agency, according to the company's CEO, Pravin Kothari.
Rohan Pearce | 22 Aug | Read more
NZ IT pros call for government CISO
New Zealand should appoint a chief information security officer to oversee efforts to keep government systems safe and provide a single point of reporting for vulnerabilities, according to the CEO of the Institute of IT Professionals, Paul Matthews.
Rohan Pearce | 08 Aug | Read more
Hacking creativity: Making time for innovation
Everyone wants to do it, but the 'how' of innovation can often feel elusive. For Craig Penfold, the head of technology at Yahoo!7, innovation often involves late nights, pizza and, at around 5am in the morning, a Spotify playlist of '80s trash.
Rohan Pearce | 08 Jul | Read more
Deploying security-analytics-as-a-service to dissect network attacks
Sydney-based start-up Packetloop has gone live with its security-analytics-as-a-service offering. The service came out of private beta earlier this month.
Rohan Pearce | 22 Feb | Read more
False sense of security pervades DR approaches
Australian businesses are aware of the importance of disaster recovery planning, but their reliance on manual approaches means that organisations risk falling short of target recovery times if an incident occurs, according to research released today.
Rohan Pearce | 18 Feb | Read more
Whonix: An OS for the era of Anonymous and Wikileaks
Anonymity is an increasingly scarce commodity. Google's latest Transparency Report revealed government requests for data about users of its online services are increasing. It's not hard to find examples of threats to privacy — either intentional or unintentional.
Rohan Pearce | 30 Jan | Read more
How to fix the two-factor authentication log-in error in Gmail on Android
I'm a fan of being secure, so naturally I decided to turn on two-factor authentication for my Google account.
Rohan Pearce | 17 Nov | Read more
Social engineering: How to hack humans
You get a call from a software company -- a Microsoft partner perhaps -- who tells you your computer is infected with a virus.
Rohan Pearce | 03 Nov | Read more
Getting secure with Mantra: An open source penetration testing kit
Mantra is an open source, browser-based framework for penetration testing and security assessments. It's based on Mozilla's Firefox Web browser, so it's cross-platform, and it's part of the Open Web Application Security Project -- OWASP.
Rohan Pearce | 04 Jul | Read more