Privacy laws around the world are playing a game of catch up as emerging technologies change the nature of information gathering, storage and processing in ways that were unimaginable just a few short years ago.
Anthony Caruana | 19 Nov | Read more
It is almost impossible to attend any event that has an IT edge without hearing about the Internet of Things. Until recently, we only really used the Internet as a way of connecting people via computers and servicer. But we are hurtling forward into a world where all sorts of devices have sensors and controls that can be connected, controlled and read over the Internet. That's the Internet of Things.
Anthony Caruana | 19 Nov | Read more
If you want to really sit at the bleeding edge of personal privacy, spend some time thinking about storing and sharing personal health records for entire population. That's what Scotland's National Health Service embarked on and succeeded in delivering.
Anthony Caruana | 18 Nov | Read more
Imagine trying to write policy around privacy and the Internet back in the 1990s. It was a world with fewer than 20 million internet users, most of them based in the United States. The task was given to Larry Irving in 1994 after he co-authored a paper on internet privacy. He became the first internet advisor to the then Clinton-Gore government.
Anthony Caruana | 18 Nov | Read more
At the opening keynote of the IAPPANZ Summit, Australia's Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim announced the release of his office's new Privacy Regulatory Action Policy.
Anthony Caruana | 17 Nov | Read more
Security is “a massively complex topic,” according to Mike Gregoire, CEO of CA Technologies, who cited considerations including transparency (telling people how you will use the data you collect), protection (sadly, the bad guys seem to be smarter than the good guys, so organisations need to work together and share information about compromises) and identity (so data can be protected without frustrating bona fide users).
Stephen Withers | 17 Nov | Read more
Many senior executives still fail to recognise that information security is crucial to their company's survival and less than one in ten sees poor data security as the greatest risk to their business, according to an NTT Com Security survey released this week.
David Braue | 14 Nov | Read more
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As data becomes ever more mobile there's an increased risk that it can fall into the wrong hands. And, while there are many technologies to try and prevent this from happening, or tracking a device down if it's lost or stolen, the ultimate solution to data security is preventing it leaving the storage device in the first place.
Ashton Mills | 14 Nov | Read more
Every year, our inboxes get hit with a flood of press releases and announcements with predictions for the next year. Well, we're into November and the predictions for infosec in 2015 have started arriving.
Anthony Caruana | 14 Nov | Read more
The majority of Australian shoppers are aware of the recent data breaches that struck major retailers around the world this year, but a new survey has found that few have changed their own behaviour around the protection of their retail-related private information.
David Braue | 13 Nov | Read more
Home and business users are likely to keep missing attacks on their increasing numbers of connected devices as hackers focus on new ways of exploiting the new 'Internet of Things' (IoT), an ESET security researcher has warned.
David Braue | 13 Nov | Read more
Exchange admins hoping to receive Microsoft’s quarterly update for the email platform will have to wait weeks more due issues caused by a security fix that was scheduled to be released today.
It's no secret that IT managers are concerned about the security implications of mobile devices, but a new Check Point Software Technologies survey has confirmed just how bad the problem has become as the majority of local respondents say rapidly-increasing numbers of mobile devices pose a significant jump in security issues.
David Braue | 10 Nov | Read more
The Tor Project hopes to discover exactly how law enforcement uncovered ‘dark net’ sites like Silk Road 2.0 that should have remained cloaked by The Onion Router (Tor) network.
Small businesses are proving to be a locus for cybersecurity attacks, with security experts advising that better communication is necessary to keep SMBs protected and some warning that the relatively small IT organisations of SMBs make them particularly vulnerable to the proliferation of 'shadow IT'.
David Braue | 10 Nov | Read more
The issue of so-called 'shadow IT' – informal adoption of cloud-based applications independent of a company's official IT strategy – has continued to cause problems but is more pronounced in smaller businesses with little or no IT oversight.
David Braue | 06 Nov | Read more
Consumers are more concerned about credit-card security than they are about their own health, a new survey has concluded. Take it as an indictment of our consumer culture or an indication that our overall health is good, but with California alone reporting a six-fold increase in data breaches the threat is getting bigger all the time. With cybercriminals having developed a tool to optimise their use of stolen credit cards, things are likely to get worse before they get better.
David Braue | 03 Nov | Read more
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has raised alarm bells over two Linksys router models that haven’t received security fixes that were released for other routers in July.
Australians are becoming less trusting of online banking services and other technologies as their reliance on those technologies continues to increase, according to the results of a Kaspersky Lab survey into consumer perceptions of security risk.
David Braue | 31 Oct | Read more
Australian companies may be among the most enthusiastic and progressive about cloud services in the world, but they're opening up new avenues for attack unless they complement cloud initiatives with efforts to identify control unmanaged privileged user accounts, a CyberArk executive has warned.
David Braue | 31 Oct | Read more