Public-sector organisations suffered by far the most security incidents but had proportionally the fewest out of 20 surveyed industries in which data was confirmed lost, Verizon has found in a major data-breach report that also concluded security teams have less time than ever to act against new attacks.
David Braue | 15 Apr | Read more
A set of concrete guidelines for government digital service delivery marked the first deliverables from the fledgling Digital Transformation Office (DTO), with mandatory compliance with the 36-element Protective Security Policy Framework among the security-related regulations agencies must now follow.
David Braue | 14 Apr | Read more
The attack on popular code-hosting site GitHub continues to rattle parts of the service three days after they began.
The volume of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks grew more than 20 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014 after previously levelling off, but the locus of global security attacks continued to move away from the Asia-Pacific region, new figures from content distribution giant Akamai have revealed.
David Braue | 26 Mar | Read more
Google and others have called for all websites encrypt traffic to and from browsers, but the task for publishers is a tricky one, largely because of online advertising.
Microsoft is removing trust for digital certificate for several Google domains that could have been used to spoof its services and intercept traffic to them.
A new feature in Android keeps your passcode protected smartphone unlocked when it’s on your body — a move that reduces the hassle of typing a passcode but also leaves devices exposed to muggers.
Government requests for Facebook continued to grow in the second half of 2014, the company's latest transparency report has confirmed. And, speaking of transparency, some vendors were worried by findings by Verizon that 80 percent of PCI DSS-compliant firms fail to stay compliant in the year after their certifications – leading some to push the PCI Council to accept software-based encryption]] as well as the current hardware-based encryption it requires.
David Braue | 23 Mar | Read more
Verizon will leverage its local cloud capabilities and a growing portfolio of on-network security services to meet growing cloud demand across key Asia-Pacific geographies, the company's local head has said as the company took the wraps off of the Australian instance of its Verizon Cloud platform this week.
David Braue | 17 Mar | Read more
Privacy commissioner Timothy Pilgrim is “pleased” with the rate at which Australian businesses have embraced the overhauled Privacy Act 1988 in the year since significant changes to the legislation were introduced.
David Braue | 13 Mar | Read more
BlackBerry has confirmed BlackBerry OS 10, BES 12 and 10 and other products are affected by the FREAK flaw, but it has no patch.
For all the talk about the importance of new security technologies, the importance of staff buying into corporate security strategies is often underestimated. In every case, the predictable result is the same: a strong technological barrier whose effectiveness is immediately compromised once a legitimate user, with legitimate access to internal resources, clicks on a phishing email designed to load malware onto their computer.
David Braue | 12 Mar | Read more
Google is teaming up with Symantec and others to enter the ‘cold storage’ market for information that needs to be kept but isn’t accessed frequently.
Cisco has flagged a monster security update for dozens of Cisco security products affected by eight OpenSSL flaws, including the FREAK SSL/TLS bug.
Even as DDoS attacks were outed as the biggest security concern for a range of businesses, the FREAK vulnerability spawned all sorts of puns and had security pundits concerned about the integrity of secure connections between computers and Web sites. CSOs were encouraged to check if they were vulnerable to the bug, while Apple moved quickly to squash it in its latest version of iOS and Microsoft confirmed that Windows is also vulnerable.
David Braue | 11 Mar | Read more
Systems developers need to stop blaming users for security shortcomings and focus on improving security by rebuilding their systems in a more secure and user-friendly manner, a security expert has argued.
David Braue | 06 Mar | Read more
Proactive efforts to stop the rate of financially-targeted Trojans saw a 53 percent decline in infection rates during 2014 but ever-smarter malware is learning to evade new security measures, Symantec has warned after an analysis that found Australia suffered over 114,000 financial phishing attacks last year.
David Braue | 05 Mar | Read more
Fewer central IT execs see security as a significant challenge to moving workloads to the cloud but that’s come with more business managers agreeing IT should be the cloud middlema
Dutch SIM card maker Gemalto says its SIM cards are “secure” despite a report that US and UK spies hacked the company and stole encryption keys that would allow them to intercept mobile communications.
Crypto-ransomware hackers who have plagued PCs for the past two years have found a new tack — high value business websites.