The recession's many corporate pressures didn't have any impact on the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance work of finance and audit executives, according to <a href="http://www.protiviti.com/soxsurvey">research by the internal audit and consulting firm Protiviti</a>.
Roy Harris | 22 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
Despite lingering privacy concerns, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is plowing ahead with plans to build a massive centralized database containing detailed healthcare claims information on millions of federal employees and their families.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 17 Jun | Read more
The Western Australia Auditor General, Colin Murphy, has identified significant vulnerabilities to cyber threats in all of the agencies examined for his 2011 Information Systems Audit Report.
Tim Lohman | 15 Jun | Read more
Minnesota Sen. Al Franken is one of most vocal politicians in Washington when it comes to the issue of mobile privacy. In April, he sent letters to both Apple and Google asking if and how they collect location data on their users.
A laptop containing unencrypted medical data for 8.63 million people has reportedly gone missing from a storeroom of a health authority in London, potentially the biggest data loss disaster ever to befall the NHS.
John E Dunn | 16 Jun | Read more
Customers of the Russian Sperbank might in future have to pay attention to how nervous they sound if they wish to withdraw money from the bank's ATM machines.
John E Dunn | 14 Jun | Read more
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has admitted to being the victim of a cyberattack so serious that its global partner the World Bank temporarily decided to cut all computer links between the two organisations.
John E Dunn | 14 Jun | Read more
The privacy flap over Facebook's new facial recognition service has gained some momentum.
Sharon Gaudin | 14 Jun | Read more
Australian intelligence agency Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) has urged government agencies to conduct a risk assessment to determine the viability of Cloud computing technology before jumping head first.
Chloe Herrick | 15 Apr | Read more
The legal framework in which businesses operate their IT and data security is "totally outdated" and dates "from the 20th Century, while attempting to tackle problems in the 21st", according to a panel of experts.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with a California-based Web retailer that allegedly deceived U.K. customers into believing they were protected by their country's consumer trade laws by selling them merchandise through websites with URLs ending in .co.uk, the agency said Thursday.
Grant Gross | 10 Jun | Read more
Getting customers to recognise penetration testing as legitimate mitigation against potential hacks has proved vital for the Australian Taxation Office's (ATO) vulnerability management unit.
Hamish Barwick | 18 May | Read more
The U.K. National Health Service (NHS) said Friday that no patient data was compromised after an intrusion of one of its websites by Lulz Security, a hacker group that has recently stung organizations including a U.S. public broadcasting network and Sony.
Jeremy Kirk | 10 Jun | Read more
Global banks are yet to solve a vulnerability in the Europay, Mastercard and Visa (EMV) integrated circuit standard first rolled out in 2003, allowing hackers to place Trojan devices on point of sale hardware to harvest user and credit card information.
Hamish Barwick | 18 May | Read more
The NSW government department tasked with the state’s data centre reform program, the Department of Services Technology and Administration, has the green light to procure a software package to support internal audit and corporate risk management.
Rodney Gedda | 04 Apr | Read more