Animas, a Johnson & Johnson company and the maker of the OneTouch Ping wireless insulin pump, is warning its diabetic users that flaws in communications between the device and a remote blood glucose meter, could be used to trigger an unauthorized insulin injection. If that injection were not stopped in time, it could cause the wearer to experience a hypoglycemic reaction.
Big data analytics has been on top of everyone’s buzzword bingo cards for some time now. And while many organisations have their analytics house in order internally, solving the challenge of combining their data with that of other parties, while maintaining privacy has remained elusive.
Anthony Caruana | 20 Sep | Read more
Security's profile may be increasing overall, but transformation-minded executives across Australia and New Zealand have shown scant attention to the area in a survey that put security nearly at the bottom of their list of priorities during digital-transformation efforts.
David Braue | 19 Sep | Read more
Enterprise access management firm OneLogin has suffered an embarrassing breach tied to a single employee’s credentials being compromised.
As the Rio Olympics neared the opening ceremony, cybercriminals were also lacing up their running shoes with the establishment of many malicious domains and servers in Brazil. Real-world crime was also a risk, with warnings that stealing payment-card data is easy and an inexpensive bit of electronics able to hack hotel room locks and point-of-sale systems.
David Braue | 08 Aug | Read more
Many Australian businesses are still unprepared for the legal implications of impending data breach notification laws and will face a surge of security-related litigation as the new laws force rapid reconsideration of longstanding risk-management policies, a lawyer and data-privacy specialist has warned.
David Braue | 05 Aug | Read more
Information security's roots in IT have traditionally left CIOs and CISOs wrestling to contain the business risks it creates, but growing board and C-level involvement in cybersecurity is reshaping that tradition as business guidance holds cybersecurity practitioners to new standards of governance and risk management.
David Braue | 29 Jun | Read more
The breakneck growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has taken many technology prognosticators by surprise – but there will be other, far less pleasant surprises in store if IoT manufacturers can't improve their security practices quickly enough to avoid a data disaster.
David Braue | 28 Jun | Read more
Intel is weighing up whether to sell off its security group which is predominantly built on technologies acquired from antivirus firm McAfee, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
Australia may be China's sixth-largest trading partner, but an analysis of the country's allegedly state-sponsored hacking activities suggests that several other countries are seen as being more important targets for their cyber-espionage activities.
David Braue | 24 Jun | Read more
Azure Information Protection is in Microsoft’s view data loss prevention (DLP) on steroids, and one that the Redmond company claims is better built for the organisation with porous borders. In other words, any organisation that uses the cloud.
Free digital certificate authority Let’s Encrypt says it ready for a long battle if security firm Comodo doesn’t quit pursuing trademark applications containing the ‘Let’s Encrypt’ name.
The massive data breach of US retailer Target was a wakeup call for senior business executives too often disengaged with cybersecurity issues, but surging ransomware attacks are honing CxOs' attention on the need for automated analytics tools to detect security breaches as they happen – rather than months later, or not at all.
David Braue | 16 Jun | Read more
The rush to embrace cloud computing may be the defining trend of the decade, but businesses thinking public-cloud adoption relieves them of their information-security obligations should think again – and remember just what it takes to keep on top of an expanding hybrid enterprise infrastructure.
David Braue | 10 Jun | Read more
Victoria’s government has moved to update its child protection laws to keep pace with new technology, particularly social media settings.
Andrew Colley | 08 Jun | Read more
Lenovo has warned customers to uninstall insecure software that comes pre-installed on dozens of its notebooks and desktop systems.
It is no longer a matter of specific industries: More and more businesses are facing the challenges of digitization.
Matthias Reinwarth | 02 Jun | Read more
Security executives should build up an arsenal of use-cases and real-world examples rather than talking in vagaries when educating employees about the threats that social-media channels have opened into modern organisations, a local IT-industry channels specialist has warned.
David Braue | 10 May | Read more
Despite the rising menace of ransomware, a new survey has found less than half of businesses are doing the basics of security outlined by the UK Government in 2014.
Dedicated teams of hackers-for-hire are on the ground in Australia and are throwing everything including the proverbial kitchen sink at business networks to identify and exploit often significant vulnerabilities – before the real bad guys do.
David Braue | 21 Apr | Read more