Hackers stole data of more than 150 million users of a wildly popular fitness and dietary tracking app MyFitnessPal, as announced by its parent company Under Armour on Thursday, March 29.
Harold Kilpatrick | 09 Apr | Read more
A German security firm has warned against using a UK security firm's email encryption product.
Memcached abuse can amplify traffic attacks by tens of thousands of times.
The growing success of intensive ‘code-a-thon’ events is encouraging increasingly proactive measures of staff development as government agencies, universities and private enterprises look for new ways to encourage collaboration in areas such as analytics and cybersecurity.
David Braue | 09 Feb | Read more
Maersk details heroic recovery as staff go manual to keep the shipping container firm afloat after massive cyber attack.
This was the year that cybersecurity hit the mainstream – and cybercriminals showed the world they’re not kidding around.
David Braue | 31 Dec | Read more
Any device with Bluetooth could be vulnerable to the nasty BlueBorne bugs.
A growing spate of share-price declines is showing a correlation between data breaches and real financial damage – something that will catch the attention of even the most cynical board members.
David Braue | 18 Sep | Read more
Google reminds site owners that it will soon start removing trust for Symantec SSL certificates in Chrome.
The irony was most certainly unintentional, but prime minister Malcolm Turnbull nonetheless found himself announcing a major shakeup of law-enforcement authorities and cybersecurity practices a day after IBM debuted a significant new security platform that could make their job even harder than before.
David Braue | 18 Jul | Read more
Cybersecurity pundits have been talking about strategies to boost cooperation amongst the various elements of the industry to reach common goals around information protection.
David Braue | 17 Jul | Read more
Microsoft has developed a new Controlled folder access feature that allows admins to whitelist apps that can access files in specific folders.
Red teaming is a well-known tool for improving your resilience to a cyber-attack. The idea is you have a team of people, either internal experts or internal people learning the craft with the support of external partners such as penetration testers, who play the part of hackers trying to infiltrate your organisation and execute a cyber-attack.
Anthony Caruana | 09 Jun | Read more
Any company operating a multi-storey office building would develop painstaking fire escape plans, and any hospital would develop backup plans detailing how it could operate in the event of a power failure. So, if responsible businesses are actively addressing these risks, why are so many companies still failing to lay down detailed plans for dealing with a cybersecurity incident?
David Braue | 08 Jun | Read more
Vendors learning to play well together so users can focus on threats instead of integration
David Braue | 02 Jun | Read more
Phishers ramp up use of free digital certificates to trick victims into giving away their passwords.
A widely publicised security breach two years ago was “probably the most valuable thing that could have happened” to rapidly growing business collaboration vendor Slack, the company’s chief security officer has said as the company steadily pushes towards its highly anticipated IPO.
David Braue | 22 Mar | Read more
The confluence of new technologies is set to help businesses move away from password-based authentication towards a more-secure, less-invasive approach that relies heavily on behavioural monitoring and a range of inputs from smartphones and other devices.
David Braue | 22 Mar | Read more
At this year's CSO Perspectives Roadshow Leon Fouche, BDO's national leader for cyber security walked the audience through a number of different security reports to paint a picture of the threats today's world is facing.
Anthony Caruana | 22 Mar | Read more
With the CSO Perspectives roadshow in full swing this month – with sessions still to come in Brisbane, Sydney, and Wellington – security practitioners across Australia were treated to insights from black-hat turned white-hat hacker Mark Loveless and concerns about problems such as the dangerous world of the Internet of Things (IoT).
David Braue | 21 Mar | Read more