Energy distribution firms want stronger smart grid security
The government's roll out of a smart grid energy network needs a more thorough and "coherent" look at security, according to an official report.
Antony Savvas | 30 Jun | Read more
The government's roll out of a smart grid energy network needs a more thorough and "coherent" look at security, according to an official report.
Antony Savvas | 30 Jun | Read more
After nearly four chaotic years, Australia's internet filtering scheme is finally coming together in a way that makes sense technically and politically, if not necessarily for effective child protection.
Stilgherrian | 30 Jun | Read more
Since 1997 identity theft and fraud has affected more than 5.4 million people in the United States. And that number is on the rise with, more than 1.3 million complaints to the <a href="http://www.ftc.gov/sentinel/">Consumer Sentinel Network</a> (CSN) between January and December of 2009 alone. <a href="http://www.ftc.gov/sentinel/reports/sentinel-annual-reports/sentinel-cy2009.pdf">According to the Federal Trade Commission</a> (PDF), of the 721,418 fraud-related complaints to the CSN in 2009, this has cost customers [of various products and services] more than 1.7 billion dollars at a median payout of $399. But what can companies do to prevent fraud and identity theft?
James Mulroy | 30 Jun | Read more
Democratic members of a Senate committee promised Wednesday to push hard for new online privacy protections and for legislation that would require companies to put security monitoring tools on their networks.
Grant Gross | 30 Jun | Read more
The Queensland Police Service (QPS) is to shortly carry out a series of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance assessments and reviews aimed at addressing any deficiencies or gaps in current ICT systems.
Tim Lohman | 29 Jun | Read more
An investigation by the Acting NSW Privacy Commissioner, John McAteer, into the University of Sydney's security breach in January has found that the institution failed to meet its obligations to students under the Privacy and Personal Information Protection (PPIP) Act of 1998 due to a series of security blunders.
Hamish Barwick | 29 Jun | Read more
Email addresses and names of subscribers to DefenseNews, a highly-regarded website that covers national and international military and defense news, were accessed by hackers and presumed stolen, Gannett announced yesterday.
Gregg Keizer | 29 Jun | Read more
With the surge in <a href="http://blogs.csoonline.com/hacktivism">hacktivism</a> and nation-state espionage in recent years, not to mention the continuing high levels of cybercrime, companies need better tools to evaluate the quality of any developer's code.
Robert Lemos | 29 Jun | Read more
The LulzSec hacking group <a href="http://lulzsecurity.com/releases/50%20Days%20of%20Lulz.txt">sailed off into the sunset Saturday,</a> leaving behind a treasure trove of stolen data along with what some antivirus programs identified as a nasty surprise for anyone who downloaded the Torrent file: <a href="https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/14784-Warning-Original-50-Days-of-Lulz-Payload-is-Infected.html">a Trojan horse program.</a>
Robert McMillan | 28 Jun | Read more
Three New York PlayStation Network users last week filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Sony spends 'lavishly' to secure its own intellectual property while cutting corners in protecting the personal data of its customers.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 28 Jun | Read more
The <a href="http://lanl.gov/">Los Alamos National Laboratory</a> complex in New Mexico was closed Monday as an advancing wildfire threatened the U.S. Department of Energy research facility.
Patrick Thibodeau | 28 Jun | Read more
Federal authorities have declared victory over the Coreflood botnet and shut down the replacement server that the FBI used to issue commands to infected PCs.
Gregg Keizer | 24 Jun | Read more
The European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda has told Web companies to come up with a do-not-track standard by mid-2012, or the Commission will have to impose new rules.
Jennifer Baker | 24 Jun | Read more
India has issued digital identities to about 9.5 million people so far, and plans to step up enrollment to 1 million a day from October, the head of the agency issuing the biometric identities said on Thursday at a conference in Bangalore.
John Ribeiro | 23 Jun | Read more
Websites belonging to the Brazilian government and energy giant Petrobras were knocked offline Wednesday in a series of cyberattacks.
Robert McMillan | 23 Jun | Read more
The Joint Select Committee on Cyber Safety has advised the Federal Government to amend the <i>Privacy Act 1988</i> to ensure certain small businesses are subject to the requirements of the Act.
Chloe Herrick | 21 Jun | Read more
A day after a pair of hacker groups promised to step up their attacks against government Web sites, one of them claimed to have knocked the U.K.'s Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) offline.
Gregg Keizer | 21 Jun | Read more
A new U.S. military program shares classified information about <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/061411-despite-years-of-talk-utilities.html?hpg1=bn">cyber threats</a> with defense contractors and their ISPs as part of a stepped up effort to blunt potential cyber attacks, a Department of Defense official announced on Thursday.
Tim Greene | 17 Jun | Read more
A model of the Internet where the Pentagon can practice <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/060611-cyberwar.html">cyberwar</a> games -- complete with software that mimics human behavior under varying military threat levels -- is due to be up and running by this time next year, according to a published report.
Tim Greene | 18 Jun | Read more
Malaysia's Communications and Multimedia Commission said that 51 websites in the .gov.my domain were attacked beginning late Wednesday, and that 41 of the sites suffered various levels of disruption.
John Ribeiro | 16 Jun | Read more