It may have started out as a way to build a brand and engage the curiosity of the Internet development community, but an Israeli development-tools company's Game of Hacks competition has proven so popular that it is developing a white-labelled solution to help organisations put their own developers through their security paces.
David Braue | 20 May | Read more
Apple on Tuesday released its first security update for the Apple Watch, bringing Watch OS to 1.0.1 and fixing 14 security weaknesses.
Cloud providers' requirement to demonstrate their security capabilities to existing and potential customers is driving key cloud services to undergo certification to an emerging global standard that will help Australian businesses meet legal requirements for protection of personally identifiable information (PII).
David Braue | 19 May | Read more
Security researchers are warning some Android users to steer clear of Chrome on Android for websites that require passwords until they’ve got the latest browser or OS. The question is which devices will get the updates?
Employees and contractors of Vodafone Australia will benefit from increased security as part of an ongoing global overhaul of privileged-account management that will strengthen the company's ability to control access to its networks.
David Braue | 18 May | Read more
A large-scale “stamina game” – in which ever more-resourceful cybercriminals are proving adept at avoiding “self-defeating” signature-based protections – was likely to intensify as online criminals attacked new technologies, a security executive of one endpoint security vendor has warned.
David Braue | 18 May | Read more
Google is splitting its Gmail login process across two pages in preparation to introduce “new authentication solutions”.
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
Adobe has cleaned up 18 critical flaws in Flash Player and 34 critical flaws in Reader and Acrobat, including two that Google reported last October.
Four out of five companies that have suffered an IT security breach wish they had had a threat-intelligence platform in place before the attack, according to new research that also found just 1 in 3 respondents consider their company's security defence to be strong enough to protect them.
David Braue | 11 May | Read more
A strengthened focus on channel partners and the capitalisation of recent technology acquisitions will fuel a redoubled assault on the Asia-Pacific endpoint security market as Webroot's newly appointed APAC regional managing director, Robbie Upcroft, settles into his new role as steward of an ever-harder battle against the growing tide of malware actors.
David Braue | 06 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
The market for cloud and managed security services may be hotting up, but Australian companies will continue investing in standalone security appliances at almost double the global average over the next five years, a new market assessment from market analyst IDC has forecasted.
David Braue | 28 Apr | Read more
We've all heard the catch-phrase: "Prevention is better than cure", but it seems that some organisations have taken that advice too close to heart and forgotten how to put it into perspective.
Michael Lee | 01 Apr | Read more
Persistent shortcomings in corporate information-security policy continue to compromise security efforts by exposing organisations to human error and the ever more-clever depredations of ransomware and other malware authors, peak security group CompTIA has warned on the back of new research showing that just 54 percent of surveyed companies offer their employees any form of cybersecurity training.
David Braue | 01 Apr | Read more
Token-less authentication company SecurEnvoy, has signed an agreement with distributor Connector Systems, to bring its two-factor authentication product portfolio to a broader market in Australia and New Zealand.
Anthony Caruana | 01 Apr | Read more
Microsoft is rolling out new mobile device management (MDM) features as part of an update to Office 365, which offers broad protection for iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices.
Months of often heated discussion about the necessity and scope of state surveillance came to a head late last week as controversial data retention legislation was passed by Australia's Parliament with a clear Senate majority.
David Braue | 30 Mar | Read more
The attack on popular code-hosting site GitHub continues to rattle parts of the service three days after they began.