What do you get when you combine hacking tools that are easy to access, a treasure trove of stolen user credentials, user authentication that's so complex it practically begs to be bypassed and companies that make connected devices with little understanding of what they're doing and even less or an idea of how to fix the mess they've made?
Anthony Caruana | 31 May | Read more
The European Union’s tough privacy laws may have gathered momentum as they head into their second year, but one compliance specialist warns that the Australian government needs to take the initiative to motivate Australian companies that are still coming to grips with the legislation and don’t realise its potential impact on their businesses.
David Braue | 28 May | Read more
Microsoft brings its Windows 10 security tech to enterprise running multi-browser environments with Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.
Increasing mandates around the security of personal data have made encryption for every business. Australian businesses are leading the world in the use of encryption to protect backups, payment-related data, and laptops – and yet they still have a long way to go before encryption is both ubiquitous and manageable.
Updates are a funny thing, we all know that updates are released for our systems to fix bugs, security issues or add improvements to the functionality.
Craig Ford | 21 May | Read more
Increasingly complex populations of medical devices are creating new challenges for healthcare CISOs and their teams that are increasingly assuming responsibility for operational technology (OT) networks, according to an analysis of live healthcare systems that flagged a host of active security problems.
David Braue | 21 May | Read more
business nbn™ Enterprise Ethernet product are designed to give service providers a range of new options to support customers’ high speed ambitions
David Braue | 21 May | Read more
Many security leaders are losing their sense of purpose as development teams increasingly meet security needs using automation and API-based integration with cloud-based security tools, a global cloud-security expert has warned.
David Braue | 21 May | Read more
Users should enable two-factor authentication but they can improve their defenses significantly just by adding a recovery number to their account.
Those of you thinking quantum computing is too far off to worry about, should spend a few minutes with an encryption engineer talking about the need for Post-Quantum Computing (PQC) algorithms.
David Braue | 20 May | Read more
Admins can now block users from registering 2FA from an untrusted network.
An investment in a cybersecurity monitoring and correlation engine is paying back twofold for Victoria’s Deakin University, which is using the platform both to monitor its internal networks and to give cybersecurity students a live network monitoring platform to learn on.
David Braue | 16 May | Read more
Windows XP gets a second patch in two years over fears it could be used in a massive cyberattack.
Cybercrime is a problem that costs the Australian economy up to 1 billion a year in direct costs alone according to ACIC (Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission)
Craig Ford | 10 May | Read more
Australians have some of the worst password-management practices in the world, one security firm has warned as security experts once again commemorate World Password Day with pleas for users to get smarter about the way they protect their precious data.
David Braue | 02 May | Read more
Security is a hard gig, honestly, it really is. We need to know about all the threats that haven't even come to be yet, protect the organisation with all the latest blinky light solutions as well as know the ins and outs of every application and its implications to your company.
Craig Ford | 29 Apr | Read more
Huawei isn't completely banned from the UK's 5G network rollout.
Business email compromise (BEC) scams account for more than half of total losses
Microsoft April patches for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 is now causing boot problems for McAfee users too after reports of similar performance issues on systems running Avast, AVG, Avira, and Sophos security software.
Social media, where do I start. Social media has taken over our lives especially with the millennials and all of the following generations, we live and breath it.
Craig Ford | 16 Apr | Read more