Businesses wanting to improve their security practice need to reconsider the way they position cybersecurity within their business philosophy, a security analyst has told an audience of security practitioners while warning that the persistence of “terrifying” images of cybersecurity practitioners had challenged the progression of cybersecurity into becoming a mainstream business concern.
David Braue |
05 Mar |
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Asia-Pacific companies are struggling more than their global peers to get their heads around cyber fatigue, John Maynard, vice president for global security sales with Cisco, has warned in kicking off the Cybersecurity Innovation Day at this week’s Cisco Live! conference.
David Braue |
05 Mar |
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The week in security: Cybercriminals celebrate NDB’s first anniversary with... more breaches
David Braue |
25 Feb |
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While spending on cybersecurity expertise would seem to be a no-brainer, the large number of companies without formal inhouse expertise suggests another ongoing, underlying challenge in finding and securing those skills within the current competitive market.
By CSO staff |
22 Feb |
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Email fraudsters cost a woman her job and her employer a ton of money.
Liam Tung |
13 Feb |
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Conventional views of credential compromise may focus on external activities such as mass credential-stuffing attacks and password-stealing malware, but new breach-compromise statistics suggest that the fast-paced adoption of cloud and associated DevOps techniques has created other vulnerabilities that CISOs still don’t fully appreciate.
David Braue |
08 Feb |
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Apple and Facebook were at odds, blocking Facebook from running internal iOS apps after it was revealed that Facebook was using su
David Braue |
04 Feb |
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Hyatt Hotels launches the hotel industry's first bug bounty.
Liam Tung |
10 Jan |
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Millions of Google Play users exposed to adware hiding in game, TV and remote control simulator apps.
Liam Tung |
09 Jan |
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Zeriodum now offers 10 times Apple's top payout in its iOS bug bounty.
Liam Tung |
08 Jan |
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Australia may have taken it easy for the holiday season, but hackers weren’t easing off during the festivities.
David Braue |
08 Jan |
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Europe stumps up cash for bug bounties to secure over a dozen popular open source projects.
Liam Tung |
03 Jan |
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US lays charges against employees of Chinese private firm accused of working for the Chinese government.
Liam Tung |
21 Dec |
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Nation-state hackers could be undermining Twitter's efforts to clamp down on state-backed trolls.
Liam Tung |
19 Dec |
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But the Australian government could follow Brazil's lead by blocking WhatsApp, which uses Signal's encryption protocol.
Liam Tung |
18 Dec |
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Health minister Greg Hunt may have cited website interruptions as the reason for extending the opt-out period for the government’s My Health Record (MyHR) scheme, but the decision also gives more time to address privacy concerns that have seen frequently-compromised industry sectors rushing to boost data security.
David Braue |
16 Nov |
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As users what we want is to share more and have more privacy. It is through this prisoner dilemma that over this weekend Digi.me, ID Exchange and Alibaba Cloud joined forces to bring the power of personal data and private sharing to communities in regional NSW by delivering the digi.spark hackathon hosted at UTS as part of New South Wales Spark Festival.
Abigail Swabey |
28 Oct |
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No more passwords, Microsoft promises.
Liam Tung |
25 Sep |
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Older Australians understand the role of sharing personal data in today’s Internet economy better than millennials and are less comfortable with exchanging personal data with companies as a result, according to new research designed to gauge changing attitudes towards data privacy.
David Braue |
15 May |
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Australians are more fastidious than those in other countries about separating work and personal passwords – and more careful than many in protecting sensitive data like healthcare accounts – but use of secure passwords remains uncommon, according to new figures, and high rates of password reuse suggest that we still aren’t learning to protect sensitive information right.
David Braue |
04 May |
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