The addition of sandboxing capabilities has provided a new layer of protection for a cloud-based security environment that has helped industrial giant CSR enforce content-security policies across thousands of endpoints while managing limited bandwidth to over 200 sites across Australia and New Zealand.
David Braue | 12 Dec | Read more
The health sector has been a major target for threat actors over the last year or so. Hospitals in the United States have been heavily targeted with the pathology department at Royal Melbourne Hospital bringing the problem onto our own shores.
Anthony Caruana | 09 Dec | Read more
The recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on managed DNS provider Dyn, which knocked out top websites like Spotify, Amazon and Twitter, has forced lawmakers to search for answers to the problem of inherently insecure Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as webcams, DVR, printers and routers.
Analytics tools are being put to use by businesses across a range of industry sectors, and now many are discovering their value in the area of IT security.
Simon Howe | 07 Dec | Read more
A recent high-profile win for Australian security stalwart MailGuard – which was last month designated as a ‘critical’ security partner by Microsoft – is the kind of recognition that Australia’s burgeoning community of innovative startups deserve to see more of, the head of the country’s new cybersecurity commercialisation arm has said as he gears up to hit the ground running.
David Braue | 06 Dec | Read more
Android 7.1.1 is ready to install for Nexus and Pixel devices, bringing with it features previously available only to Pixel devices and the December patch, which fixes 40 issues covering 74 vulnerabilities.
Former communications minister, Stephen Conroy has warned that Australian government technology decision makers need to start preparing for the development of quantum computing.
Andrew Colley | 05 Dec | Read more
Information security has long been a competitive industry, but growing recognition of today’s multi-faceted security threat is driving security specialists to a new partnership model that reflects a very simple truth: if cybercriminals are joining forces to attack their victims, the industry needs to do the same.
David Braue | 30 Nov | Read more
On Thursday 1 December 2016, cybersecurity experts from across the country will come together to discuss the continually evolving and growing world of cybersecurity. With a focus on bridging the gap between business users and technologists, the 2016 Asia Pacific Cyber in Business Conference is all about getting the IT back office and business coalface communicating and working together.
Anthony Caruana | 29 Nov | Read more
The Christmas season is ramping up but Australian shoppers risk being victimised by scammers, new figures suggest, with many still unable to pick out phishing emails and unaware that their home Wi-Fi network can be compromised. This is a concern for anyone shopping online: with Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales being buried in a mass of scams, malware, and even fake Wi-Fi, it’s harder than ever for online shoppers to go about their business untouched.
David Braue | 28 Nov | Read more
Telstra is building a brand new security team called “Secure Code” that will be dedicated to catching bugs in code on the fly from development teams across the globe.
Australia’s appointment of an official Ambassador for Cyber Affairs was well received but |some warn it’s still too little, too late to catch us up with the rest of the world.
David Braue | 21 Nov | Read more
Record-setting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks based on the Mirai Internet of Things (IoT) botnet technique have pushed the challenge facing the cybersecurity industry to a completely new level, a security specialist has warned in the wake of a research report flagging a year-on-year explosion in detected DDoS attacks.
David Braue | 18 Nov | Read more
Lawmakers have been warned that cyber attacks are going to get physical and if they want to have a decent answer when things do go wrong, they’ll need to make laws that force manufacturers to build secure products.
The appointment of an Australian Ambassador for Cyber Affairs is a step in the right direction but the federal government needs to move more quickly in related areas for its cybersecurity credentials to be taken seriously, one security leader has warned in the wake of the long-awaited announcement.
David Braue | 15 Nov | Read more
Some of the world’s major record labels and music rights holders are persisting with a federal court bid to use new Australian legislation to make telcos block torrent file sharing sites.
Andrew Colley | 09 Nov | Read more
Kevin Mitnick, arguably the world’s most famous hacker, is coming to Australia as part of a conference tour of the region later this month.
Andrew Colley | 09 Nov | Read more
It hadn’t taken long after Federation Training introduced a new security platform that the wisdom of the move became clear, with scanners picking up “dozens if not hundreds of quarantined files” on a daily basis as the institute’s 4000 students and 500 staff connected and disconnected from the institute’s network.
David Braue | 02 Nov | Read more
It didn’t take long for hackers to leverage the newly released Mirai source code to build new Internet of Things (IoT) botnets, with an observed surge in Mirai-generated botnets.
David Braue | 24 Oct | Read more
Australian and Asia-Pacific businesses are suffering from “inadequate” response times to potentially crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that are becoming both easier for cybercriminals to launch and more effectively targeted to cause real business damage, according to a newly released global survey of DDoS experiences.
David Braue | 06 Oct | Read more