Yahoo has proven to be protective of Australian users' content, disclosing content in just 2.2 percent of requests made by government authorities during the first half of this year.
David Braue | 30 Sep | Read more
Threat-intelligence firm iSIGHT Partners expects to double its Australian headcount within six months after opening its first Australian office this month.
David Braue | 25 Sep | Read more
As chief of the National Security and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Division for DSTO, Dr Tony Lindsay is well placed to see the country’s threat landscape and provide insights into the risks, adversaries and defences we need to consider.
Anthony Caruana | 21 Aug | Read more
The UK government has set new rules for driverless cars, urging testers to ensure vehicles are built to record and store critical data while fending off remote hackers.
Public confidence in government security is so low that half of Australians believe their personal data will be compromised in the next year due to poor security by a government agency, according to a new survey that also found even more believe personal data held by telcos will be compromised.
David Braue | 03 Jul | Read more
The persistence of a new iOS vulnerability, affecting the estimated one-third of iOS devices that haven't been updated in the past five months, is the latest in a string of vulnerabilities whose discovery by various vendors highlights the ongoing role of careless and unquestioning humans opening the door to potentially damaging vulnerabilities.
David Braue | 01 Jul | Read more
Malicious actors are increasingly using the anonymous Tor network and external remote access tools to instigate targeted attacks that are growing in sophistication and complexity, a Vectra Networks analysis of internal traffic has shown.
David Braue | 25 Jun | Read more
Although Microsoft ended development of its widely used Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 tools in April, many organisations are still grappling with the migration of a core security service that had become so irretrievably interwoven with network security that it has proved extremely difficult to remove.
David Braue | 24 Jun | Read more
Australian ISPs are set to be forced to block Web sites facilitating the download of illegal films and other content, after the passage of controversial laws forcing them to take such action.
David Braue | 22 Jun | Read more
Samsung is facing tough questions from Australian mobile carriers following the publication of a software security flaw with the potential to comprise hundreds of millions of its smartphones.
Andrew Colley | 18 Jun | Read more
A new study by the Ponemon Institute, sponsored by IBM, says the cost of data breaches is continuing to rise with an increase 23% over the past couple of years.
Anthony Caruana | 15 Jun | Read more
Cisco has announced new offerings to embed security from the data centre out to endpoints, branch offices, and the cloud for pervasive threat visibility and control. By integrating security everywhere, enterprises and service providers can deliver threat-centric security to today’s threat landscape and capture emerging business opportunities created by the rise of the digital economy and the Internet of Everything (IoE).
Anthony Caruana | 15 Jun | Read more
The closure of a shady telemarketing company came just days after an IDG report revealed new insights into online antivirus-related pressure sells that are netting big bucks from those “Your PC may be infected” advertisements.
David Braue | 15 Jun | Read more
I’m a person who has had a keen interest in trying to stay across developments in Cyber Security, but a recent Symposium at Sydney’s Luna Park has been an eye opener on many fronts.
Peter Cooper of the GWA Group has an extensive history as a senior information security professional. One morning a few years ago some strange things were being noticed at a warehouse at the company worked for. Nothing that looked too severe but the sort of thing that looked like an innocuous anomaly.
Anthony Caruana | 09 Jun | Read more
Metadata retention, government agencies without oversight, warrantless access to the actions of citizens - this is the backdrop Crikey’s Bernard Keane painted for how everyone’s use of the Internet will be controlled.
Anthony Caruana | 09 Jun | Read more
HP and FireEye have announced a partnership to make incident response, compromise assessment and threat detection offerings available to HP Enterprise Services’ most strategic clients globally.
Anthony Caruana | 02 Jun | Read more
If you're like most, you face a conflicting challenge around security: while there is increased focus on digitalisation of the business, at the same time the threats to the business have not been fully addressed – or even planned for.
A new pair of manuals from peak security industry body ISACA is aiming to boost the information-security posture of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) by guiding the traditionally resource-challenged companies through the process of implementing a robust governance framework and then building a security framework on top of it.
David Braue | 29 May | Read more
The global market for antivirus solutions is already full of competitors, but the founder of Adelaide company PC Range is confident that a white-branding strategy and the addition of cloud-security capabilities later this year will help his SecuraLive security suite carve out a good portion of the market.
David Braue | 28 May | Read more