The ongoing scourge of ransomware and a persistent lack of knowledge around proper security procedures are helping drive strong growth for Dell SecureWorks in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, according to the head of the company's regional security operations.
David Braue | 23 Oct | Read more
With Android 5.0 or Lollipop, Google has put in place a framework for improving the security of Android apps.
Some 100,000 photos taken from Snapchat users weren't the service's fault, although some observers were seizing on the leak to argue for an improvement in security by Snapchat and other online services. Ditto Dropbox, which was also denying it was to blame after hackers published what they claimed were excerpts from 7 million Dropbox credentials; the cloud-storage giant blamed a third-party service for the leak, but security experts were still using the event to push their case for users to adopt two-factor authentication – particularly given that cloud security and ubiquitous identity for cloud services is still over a year away.
David Braue | 21 Oct | Read more
The cloud computing industry is improving its security story – long based on installing intermediary encryption gateways – but is still more than a year away from having “ubiquity in terms of security controls”, a Symantec security expert has warned.
David Braue | 17 Oct | Read more
Security is big business these days. With our old approach of blocking everyone at the border failing - mainly because no-one knows where the border is anymore - a risk-based approach is driving the way businesses think about their information and systems security.
Anthony Caruana | 22 Oct | Read more
Peter Allor is the Lead Security Strategist in IBM's Critical Infrastructure Group. He works at the forefront of information security, working with researchers to look at events, as they happen, to learn about new techniques that are being adopted by attackers from a protection perspective and how to deal with those in across distributed computing in the cloud. But he is on the board of directors of FIRST - the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams and ICASI - the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet.
Anthony Caruana | 16 Oct | Read more
Around one million Drupal-based websites are affected by a serious security flaw that could give attackers complete control their site’s database.
Governments hold a unique position in the establishment of new authentication schemes and must therefore take the lead in building out new mobile-based identity platforms to securely enable the delivery of a range of key services to their citizens, the Secure Identity Alliance has argued in a new white paper.
David Braue | 16 Oct | Read more
Microsoft announced its upcoming Australian version of its Azure cloud platform had achieved government security certification. On similar lines, Microsoft also joined other technology providers in promising to protect student privacy, and developed a new way to securely isolate data and applications from the cloud infrastructure they're running on.
David Braue | 14 Oct | Read more
As usual Adobe’s patches for October will fall in line with Microsoft’s this Tuesday, but this month Oracle’s quarterly and enormous list of 155 fixes falls on the same day.
Responding to complaints by the US government over mobile device encryption, Google chairman Eric Schmidt has said the company’s hand was forced by government hacking.
Australia earned the dubious honour of being the country most targeted by phishers – and that's saying something given that it happened in a climate where the overall level of data breaches is continuing to rise. Even malvertising authors were upping their game, digitally signing new samples in an effort to bypass detection by antivirus scanners.
David Braue | 07 Oct | Read more
Apple has updated its in-built malware feature on Macs to block a new backdoor exclusively targeting OSX that security researchers claim have infected over 18,000 Macs.
Visa subsidiary CyberSource has been selected by the Flight Centre, Cotton On and Kathmandu to secure online payments when customers are booking flights or buying apparel.
Hamish Barwick | 13 Mar | Read more
Retailer Harvey Norman has issued an apologetic email after it accidently sent out customers a $5 credit offer for signing up to its VIP email, even though they had not opted in to receive it.
Hamish Barwick | 25 Feb | Read more
As the start of <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/510792/the-12-cons-of-christmas">holiday shopping season</a> kicks off, retailers know they will no doubt deal with inevitable amounts of theft this year, particularly in a difficult economy. But this season, news of a phenomenon known as flash robbing is putting a new twist on smash-and-grab tactics.
Joan Goodchild | 30 Nov | Read more
- Amazon, Apple and Google know more about you than your doctor or lawyer - and Commbank is jealous as hell. - Don’t trust an organisation that doesn’t have a face - because then you can’t punch it in when they screw up, said Marcus Ranum. - 78 percent of the world’s population doesn’t have access to a computer or the internet and therefore avoid all IT security problems.
Zennith Geisler | 11 Nov | Read more
Adidas has taken down numerous of its websites after suffering a "sophisticated, criminal cyberattack".
Hotel firm <a href="http://www.travelodge.co.uk/">Travelodge</a> has revealed some of its customer email addresses have been accessed following an attack.
Carrie-Ann Skinner | 24 Jun | Read more
Some Tesco Bank customers have been unable to see their accounts for a third day, prompting <a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3287241/tesco-bank-system-update-blocks-customer-access/">scores of angry comments online</a>.