Providers of security training skills are working overtime to keep their curriculum relevant to new threats while teaching advanced hacking skills in a methodical and manageable way, according to the head of Australia's largest IT training provider.
David Braue | 24 Mar | Read more
Government requests for Facebook continued to grow in the second half of 2014, the company's latest transparency report has confirmed. And, speaking of transparency, some vendors were worried by findings by Verizon that 80 percent of PCI DSS-compliant firms fail to stay compliant in the year after their certifications – leading some to push the PCI Council to accept software-based encryption]] as well as the current hardware-based encryption it requires.
David Braue | 23 Mar | Read more
Nearly 3 out of 4 businesses have experienced an information-security incident over the last year due to the actions of employees, ex-employees, contractors or partners, new research from security vendor Clearswift has found.
David Braue | 20 Mar | Read more
Researchers have found 13 apps on Google Play that foist unwanted advertisements to Android devices, making it the fourth time Google has removed adware from its store in three months.
Telstra is “still working on” calculating the cost of reliably securing the mass of metadata that will be collected under the government's controversial telecommunications data retention legislation, the company's chief information security officer has confirmed.
David Braue | 18 Mar | Read more
The importance of the human element in information security is sometimes lost amongst all the discussion about new technologies, but the usage of insecure email services by former US secretary of state Hilary Clinton has brought the issue into fine focus after it was revealed that her email remained unencrypted and unauthenticated for three months. Indeed, despite years of user education experts continue to warn that the 'human firewall' is continuing to suffer from significant weaknesses.
David Braue | 17 Mar | Read more
Pinterest, the company that lets users pin the web, has switched on HTTPS for its website and launched a bug bounty with Australian-born crowdsourcing platform Bugcrowd, which has landed $6m in VC funding.
BlackBerry has confirmed BlackBerry OS 10, BES 12 and 10 and other products are affected by the FREAK flaw, but it has no patch.
This week's launch of the Apple Watch has provided a focal point for security vendors who are flooding the market with new capabilities designed to prevent the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm from becoming a runaway security threat.
David Braue | 12 Mar | Read more
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are the most worrying type of online attack for businesses and reputational damage and unhappy customers are among the most feared outcomes of such an incident, a new customer survey has revealed.
David Braue | 06 Mar | Read more
Proactive efforts to stop the rate of financially-targeted Trojans saw a 53 percent decline in infection rates during 2014 but ever-smarter malware is learning to evade new security measures, Symantec has warned after an analysis that found Australia suffered over 114,000 financial phishing attacks last year.
David Braue | 05 Mar | Read more
Google is deprecating Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) support for Chrome with the final update expected to arrive in April and no more security patches from mid-May.
Google has quietly stopped requiring that Android OEMs enable full-disk encryption by default in new Android 5.0 Lollipop devices, backtracking on its widely publicised plan to make life harder for snoops and police.
The Australian government stepped up its push for mandatory data retention legislation, drawing out supporters and detractors as the controversial legislation pushed its way towards becoming law.
David Braue | 02 Mar | Read more
The rate of new software vulnerabilities jumped dramatically between 2014 and 2013, with 19 new vulnerabilities disclosed every day last year and an upwards trend suggesting things could only get worse this year.
David Braue | 27 Feb | Read more
Android may rule consumer smartphone shipments, but it’s getting trounced in the enterprise. So is Google’s new enterprise mobile security plan up to the task of raising Android's measly share of the enterprise? The answer may lie in the diversity of "the enterprise".
Less than 1 in 4 Australian and New Zealand businesses is in the advanced stages of planning their cloud rollout – yet with nearly half of CEOs and board members supporting the paradigm and 60 percent of respondents reporting security issues, the other organisation are not free from problems related to the cloud, a Red Hat customer survey has found.
David Braue | 26 Feb | Read more
Google has taken the wraps off Android for Work, the BYOD enterprise program it’s been brewing with mobile device management (MDM) partners for months and borrows from Samsung’s container technology KNOX.
Foodies looking for inspiration for that pork belly might want to avoid the recipe from the Naked Chef’s website, jamieoliver[dot]com. That is, until the website stops serving up an exploit for Flash Player
US hotel chain Marriott may have copped a hefty fine for blocking Wi-Fi hotspots at its hotels, but the practice is set to become more common with the emergence of new solutions enabling other companies to do the same thing
David Braue | 16 Feb | Read more