In case you missed it, last week's "Hashtag of the Week" was #fappening. It was a response to the hacking or leaking of hundreds of nude pictures of a number of nude celebrities. Early in the piece it was alleged that Apple's iCloud service had been hacked but the reality is far more complex.
Anthony Caruana | 09 Sep | Read more
Managing Vice-President of Gartner, F. Christian Byrnes closed the Gartner Security and Risk management Summit with a look at what will be on the agenda for the CISOs over the next year.
Anthony Caruana | 04 Sep | Read more
Bruce Hafaele is the Chief Architect at Healthdirect Australia where he is responsible for technology strategy, architecture, software delivery and operations.
Anthony Caruana | 04 Sep | Read more
Francis Trentley was the CIO of the White House during the George W. Bush administration and oversaw that office's biggest ever technical transformation. Today, he is the Senior Director at Akamai Technologies. At the recent Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit, he delved into the ever-evolving cyber-threat-landscape and examined how traditional defences need to evolve.
Anthony Caruana | 03 Sep | Read more
Peter Cooper, Group Information Security Manager, Woolworths says the value IT can bring "is to do what we do faster. The best value we can bring to our important business colleagues is help business processes. But doing things faster brings new risk".
Anthony Caruana | 27 Aug | Read more
Michael Rothery, First Assistance Secretary for National Security Resilience Policy at Department of the Attorney General says that in order to deliver effective security and risk management the key question is "Who owns the risk?".
Anthony Caruana | 27 Aug | Read more
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During her presentation at the Gartner Security and Risk summit held in Sydney, Gartner Research Director, Anne Robins looked at the difference between successful risk assessments and unsuccessful assessments and what they mean for your business.
Anthony Caruana | 27 Aug | Read more
Opened by John Girard, the Gartner Security and Risk Summit has a focus on creating a culture of risk management and security.
Anthony Caruana | 26 Aug | Read more
Celebrating 25 years in Australia, Symantec has opened its new office and Security Operations Centre in Sydney. The $12M project has centralised all of Symantec's Sydney operations with 375 of the their 500 Australian staff now in a new office facility.
Anthony Caruana | 25 Aug | Read more
An email account at RMIT University in Melbourne has resulted in a user account in the Credit Management area being compromised and sending messages to former students.
Anthony Caruana | 01 Aug | Read more
Catch of the Day claims to be Australia's number one online department store. And a look at their prices and range makes it clear that they have a reasonable claim on that crown.
Anthony Caruana | 21 Jul | Read more
The Ponemon Institute released the second part of their "Exposing the Cybersecurity Cracks: Australia" report earlier this week. Sponsored by Websense, the report focussed on three key areas: Roadblocks, Refresh and Raising the Human Security IQ.
Anthony Caruana | 18 Jul | Read more
In the old days it was easy. Teach your kids to cross the road safely, stay in well lit areas and avoid contact with strangers. Do those things and life was pretty safe. But today, our children are "friends" with people they have never met and are unlikely to meet IRL (in real life – because now we speak in acronyms and initialisations rather than real words!).
Anthony Caruana | 11 Jul | Read more
The balancing act between security and usability is hard to achieve. Inevitably, compromises are made either by system designers or wily users who find ways to circumvent complex rules and processes. But researchers from the University of Pretoria in South Africa have been conducting research and designed a new approach to authentication.
Anthony Caruana | 26 Jun | Read more
Heartbleed wasn't just an interesting Internet security story. It was a sign that one of the most fundamental building blocks relied on by many large companies was significantly flawed. Even more staggering was the revelation that the OpenSSL open source code library, that is responsible for SSL communications between systems, had another flaw that went undetected for over a decade.
Anthony Caruana | 24 Jun | Read more