Australian companies will need to be better at compliance with the European Union’s new data privacy protections than they are at complying with PCI DSS financial-data security regulations, according to new figures that confirm executives are unhappy with their compliance progress and validate consumers’ concerns that businesses are not protecting their confidential data adequately.
David Braue |
05 Sep |
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Long-term retention of telecommunications metadata helped law-enforcement authorities access 40,425 metadata records that were 3 months old or older, the Attorney-General’s Department has revealed in its first glimpse of the performance of its controversial telecommunications metadata retention scheme.
David Braue |
15 Aug |
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Recent ransomware attacks underscore the importance of a unified global response.
Matt Loeb |
02 Aug |
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Pronto Software is an Australian ERP software developer and vendor. The original company has been in the software business for over 40 years.
Anthony Caruana |
02 Aug |
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Merck expects a long road ahead to fully recover from the Petya cyber attack in late June.
Liam Tung |
02 Aug |
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The accidental mass leakage of Swedish drivers’ personal details caused red faces amongst that country’s government, providing fodder for hackers that have become highly effective in dreaming up new ways to generate profit.
David Braue |
31 Jul |
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Adobe will officially stop supporting Flash Player by 2021, by which time all browser makers will block the plugin from loading.
Liam Tung |
26 Jul |
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Five years ago, if you had asked your average CSO what the biggest threat to their network was, odds are that they wouldn’t have even thought about mentioning their own dishwasher.
David Braue |
25 Jul |
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It's just as shady and dangerous as ever, but something has changed in the way the dark web does business, and it will look very familiar to IT buyers.
Josh Fruhlinger |
24 Jul |
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Your organization has just discovered a serious data breach. Does it have a well-oiled plan to respond without ruining forensic evidence, creating a public relations nightmare, or frightening customers?
Liam Tung |
24 Jul |
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In a time of continuous change, CSOs must fight to stay ahead of the threats
David Braue |
25 Jul |
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Trained continually by ever-expanding masses of security data, AI promises to finally help CSOs keep up with the flood
David Braue |
24 Jul |
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Hacking for fun and profit? Not so much; these days it’s mostly just about profit.
David Braue |
24 Jul |
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All the security defences in the world are worth nothing if employees compromise them
David Braue |
21 Jul |
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Despite all the investment in cybersecurity technologies, all the hiring of technical experts, all the millions spent on expensive security consultants, today’s businesses have made little progress resolving what remains the biggest paradox of information security.
David Braue |
21 Jul |
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Is there more 'talk' than 'walk' in your company's cyber security strategy?
Dwayne Melancon |
21 Jul |
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Maersk is still working to recover systems its antivirus failed to protect from the Petya ransomware.
Liam Tung |
20 Jul |
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"Code reuse is vulnerability reuse", warns security firm after finding critical flaw in a third-party code library.
Liam Tung |
20 Jul |
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Tesla is working to make sure a fleet-wide attack can't occur, Musk told attendees at the National Governors Association
Ms. Smith |
19 Jul |
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While there is a general consensus that the Knightscope security robot in Washington, D.C., committed suicide on Monday, the same everyone-agrees-opinion is not true for the $7.4 million heist of the cryptocurrency Ether that happened on the same day.
Ms. Smith |
19 Jul |
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