Switzerland-based encrypted email provider ProtonMail provider says a payment to stop attackers overloading its network didn’t work. Now it's appealing to the public to fund its "top-of-line" DDoS protection provider.
Russian speaking hackers are targeting Android devices installed with apps from nearly all Australian banks in order to intercept SMS codes used to authorise transactions.
The US embassy for the EU has urged Europe’s top court to reject its advisor’s recommendation for it to rule illegal the key EU-US data sharing agreement known as Safe Harbour.
Hacking group Lizard Squad has claimed responsibility for taking the UK National Crime Agency’s website offline on Tuesday morning in what appears to be revenge for the arrest six customers who paid for its botnet.
Google has weighed in against a US proposal to regulate the export of intrusion software, arguing that it will harm research into new software vulnerabilities that help it protect users.
Australian ICT security specialists are earning less than ICT sales professionals, network specialists, telecommunications engineers, and other skilled ICT professionals, a new Australian Computer Society (ACS) analysis has found.
David Braue | 09 Jul | Read more
Security experts expect a spike in malware that steals banking credentials to emerge thanks to a leaked copy of a toolkit used to build such malware.
The White House has directed all federal government websites be “HTTPS-Only”, bringing public sector websites inline with demands from privacy advocates and the commercial sector.
At the end of June, merchants that accept payment cards have five new security requirements to comply with -- and significant fines and other costs if they don't.
Maria Korolov | 16 May | Read more
A $33.3m investment in large-scale identity management systems will form a cornerstone of the government's Digital Transformation Office (DTO) – an umbrella effort to securely push government service delivery online – which will be fast-tracked through a $254.7m Budget allocation over four years that will see numerous other agencies chipping in to support the transformation agenda.
David Braue | 13 May | Read more
Increasing use of encryption and counter-surveillance technologies have been flagged as a key problem facing the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) as the organisation – like others within the Attorney-General's portfolio – outline their Budget-time priorities in tackling activities “prejudicial to Australia's security” that are enabled through use of such technology.
David Braue | 13 May | Read more
Companies are increasingly turning to threat intelligence to help shape their response to security attacks, which some have argued must become increasingly defensive as the nature of the threat changes over time.
David Braue | 11 May | Read more
Only 54 percent of workers believe their employers have given them adequate training about how to preserve the privacy of customers' personally identifiable information (PII), a new survey has found as privacy authorities spruik a new privacy management framework designed to help Australian organisations improve privacy compliance efforts that have been slammed as inconsistent and unbelievable by consumers.
David Braue | 08 May | Read more
Most Australians value their privacy and consider it when sharing information online, but a scathing review of privacy compliance by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has been reinforced by survey results suggesting that most Australians feel there are still inadequate privacy controls in place.
David Braue | 07 May | Read more
High-level representation of IT and information-security interests helped smooth the delivery of a major data-consolidation project that has revolutionised daily analytics and risk management of more than 4 million customer records for Bendigo and Adelaide Bank (BAB).
David Braue | 05 May | Read more
Many companies are coming to see security as a form of damage control rather than prevention – an implicit admission that cybercriminals have outflanked and outclassed them – but one security innovator is still working hard to convince customers not to give up on the idea that attacks can still be prevented.
David Braue | 29 Apr | Read more
The Russian Interior Ministry has arrested the alleged leader a gang operating the Svpeng Android banking malware and ransomware aimed at English speaking targets.
Some of the biggest banks Wall Street are leaving a "backdoor" wide open for hackers by failing to extend security governance to high risk suppliers.
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
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.