UK crime agency forgot encryption for child abuse tips
A child protection department under the UK’s peak serious crime fighting agency forgot to encrypt submissions made through its website.
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Yet another free pass for Aussie spooks
Something doesn't add up. ASIO is doing pretty well. So are our police. Australians sleep safer in their beds than ever before. Yet the government is rushing to pass new laws to "protect" us so fast they're even forgetting the widgets that make them work.
Stilgherrian | 15 Sep | Read more
DHS seeks to share top-secret info with banking and finance cybersecurity pros
The <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/privacy-groups-protest-massive-dhs-database-s">Department of Homeland Security</a> works with financial institutions to thwart cyber attacks and plans to do so more and more in the future, according to DHS testimony to Congress, including sharing top secret cyber intelligence.
Tim Greene | 15 Sep | Read more
“Insidious” cyber chaos too fast for ASIO
Despite massive funding increases and greater cooperation from federal and state law enforcement agencies, Australia's security chief predicts the intelligence community will continue to struggle with new technology.
Symantec Vision 2011 Sydney in pictures
Symantec Vision 2011 Sydney in pictures
Neerav Bhatt | 13 Sep | Read more
Cashier used Barclays systems to profile sex attack victim
A 27 year-old bank cashier was fined £800 (A$1,226) yesterday for using her position at Barclays Bank to profile a customer who was the victim of a sex attack by the cashier’s husband.
Security roundup: How did 9/11 change IT?; Microsoft premature patching; HIPAA gets nasty
The 10th anniversary of the infamous Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America is prompting reflection on those who died on that day of mass murder, and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/090711-911-user-story-250602.html">what changed in our society</a> because of it.
Ellen Messmer | 10 Sep | Read more
Manchester hospital loses patients’ personal data
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has found the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust in breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA) after losing an unencrypted USB key containing patients' personal data.
Anh Nguyen | 08 Sep | Read more
Sony plucks first CISO from US Dept of Homeland Security
Sony has named US government cyber security czar Phillip Reitinger its first chief information security officer (CISO). The newly filled post was one of Sony’s key responses to its first major customer data breach in which 77 million customers personal details were compromised.
Free security tool detects banking malware
A Finnish penetration testing company has released a free tool it says can detect all variants of five major families of malicious software that steal online banking credentials.
Jeremy Kirk | 06 Sep | Read more
CenITex to deliver shared governance, risk compliance service
CenITex, the Victorian Government's shared services IT agency, will adopt a new IT governance, risk and compliance (ITGRC) package to improve its information security function.
Tim Lohman | 31 Aug | Read more
P2P Concerns - Neil Gaughan (Australian Federal Police) talks to CSO
Technology is a wonderful thing but while the majority of people will use it for proper and honest purposes, there will always be a small percentage who will use it for unethical reasons. And this is an important point to make – people use the technology for illegal or immoral purposes; the technology itself is not the issue.
Neil Gaughan | 05 Sep | Read more
DHS warns of planned Anonymous attacks
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today issued a somewhat unusual bulletin warning the security community about the planned activities of hacking collective Anonymous over the next few months.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 03 Sep | Read more
London Fire Brigade implements Courion identity and access management
The London Fire Brigade has deployed a new identity and access management (IAM) system to help protect its data systems and ease the workload on its helpdesk.
Antony Savvas | 27 Aug | Read more
Mobile payment security apps coming to NFC-ready smartphones
Four major credit card companies are working with the Isis mobile wallet venture to install mobile payment security applications on upcoming NFC-ready smartphones in the U.S.
Matt Hamblen | 26 Aug | Read more
DHS warns that Irene could prompt phishing scams
As Hurricane Irene barrels toward the eastern seaboard, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is warning government agencies and private companies to be on the lookout for storm-related phishing attacks and other malicious cyberactivity.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 27 Aug | Read more
Online health records at risk from malware
AusCERT general manager Graham Ingram has questioned the wisdom of Australia's National E-Health Strategy plans to make medical records available online, pointing to the difficulty of securing end-users' computers.
Stilgherrian | 25 Aug | Read more
Banks blocking more fraudulent money transfers from hijacked business accounts
Cybercriminals increasingly are targeting business bank accounts to set up fake money transfers. But the good news is, banks seem to be getting better at stopping some fraudulent transactions before stolen funds leave the institution.
Ellen Messmer | 26 Aug | Read more
Has Facebook killed the undercover cop?
Face-recognition technology and the near-universal adoption of social networking tools by teenagers could have already made future covert police and intelligence operations difficult, if not impossible, according former Australian Federal Police commissioner Mick Keelty.
Stilgherrian | 25 Aug | Read more
Wikileaks former spokesman ‘destroyed secret BoA data’
Private Bank of America (BoA) files obtained by Wikileaks may have been deleted by a former spokesman of the whistleblower website, it has emerged.