Concerns over the security of companies’ development cultures were validated for an Australian cybersecurity specialist after a recent global scan of GitHub projects identified more than 200,000 servers where developers had left hardcoded passwords and other sensitive information in publicly available source code.
David Braue | 27 Apr | Read more
No extortion, shake downs, or duress, Uber says in new bug bounty program.
Google's new G-Suite updates aim to shut out sophisticated CEO impersonation phishing attacks.
Apple has rolled out a new version of Safari's cross-site tracking defenses and new mitigations for techniques that ad firms were using to bypass the privacy protocols.
As surging investment drives interest in cryptocurrency, cryptomining malware has emerged from nowhere to become one of the biggest threats facing enterprise security managers.
David Braue | 16 Mar | Read more
Intel wraps up Meltdown-Spectre patching for all CPUs released in the past five years and has redesigned new Cascade Lake CPUs to mitigate the attacks.
Today’s businesses are producing so much data that a core part of IT strategy is just finding somewhere to store it.
US-CERT recommends admins should patch three bugs Cisco released fixes for on Wednesday.
The notifiable data breaches (NDB) s
David Braue | 26 Feb | Read more
A year after Australia’s long-fermenting notifiable data breaches (NDB) legislation received royal assent, the new code has today taken effect – hastening in a new era of disclosure obligations that could, depending on whom you talk to, be a major step towards cybersecurity transparency or a damp squib due to purposely vague legislation.
David Braue | 23 Feb | Read more
Cryptocurrency mining has become an increasingly favoured pastime of malware authors, who are looking past their malware fun with the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics and are recognising new revenue opportunities
David Braue | 20 Feb | Read more
Despite the masses of highly sensitive data that healthcare companies manage, new analysis has warned that chronically poor endpoint security, weak patching practices and high exposure to social engineering make the industry one of the worst-performing sectors when it comes to protecting data.
David Braue | 15 Feb | Read more
Financial institutions have spruiked this week’s launch of the New Payments Platform (NPP) as a game-changer in the movement of money – but as authorities wrestle with another major cryptocurrency theft, the security implications of monetary fluidity are becoming increasingly clear.
David Braue | 14 Feb | Read more
Microsoft releases new Windows Analytics features to help IT pros deal with the Meltdown and Spectre cleanup.
Days out from the introduction of the Notifiable Data Breach (NDB) scheme, new figures suggest around half of Australian small businesses still aren’t confident they can comply with its requirements.
David Braue | 12 Feb | Read more
Researchers tap into magnetic fields to extract data from CPUs shielded by metal cages.
With many users still clueless about the existence of ransomware and companies struggling to change their behaviour, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly gaining currency as a solution to user indifference and a driver for more proactive defences in the future.
David Braue | 05 Feb | Read more
Malicious Chrome extension from Google's web store inject ads turn the browser into a cryptocurrency miner and capture tool for credentials and credit card numbers.
Maersk details heroic recovery as staff go manual to keep the shipping container firm afloat after massive cyber attack.
Application vendors and security companies are steadily responding to the call for better information security, with a slew of new automated tools working to bolster security from the developer to the endpoint device.
David Braue | 18 Jan | Read more