Woolworths Australia has appointed former KPMG exec and security consultant Pieter van der Merwe as its first ever chief information security officer. Prior to van der Merwe’s appointment, Peter Cooper was responsible for the company’s cybersecurity protection but he has since moved on to GWA Group according to LinkedIn.
Anthony Caruana |
25 May |
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Monitoring of endpoint traffic is key to modern security defences but a human element is also essential to make up for the deficiencies of outdated signature-based antivirus security solutions that haven't been effective for many years, a senior security consultant has warned.
David Braue |
22 May |
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Increasingly sophisticated online criminal activities have featured heavily in the Australian Crime Commission's (ACC's) latest biennial report on organised crime, which found that money-spinning online fraud has rapidly displaced more conventional crimes as the activities of choice for what the criminal-research body terms “serious and organised crime”.
David Braue |
21 May |
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Microsoft has quietly issued a fix for a security update from its May Patch Tuesday for Office for Mac 2011 that killed Outlook for many Apple users.
Liam Tung |
21 May |
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Cloud providers' requirement to demonstrate their security capabilities to existing and potential customers is driving key cloud services to undergo certification to an emerging global standard that will help Australian businesses meet legal requirements for protection of personally identifiable information (PII).
David Braue |
19 May |
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Employees and contractors of Vodafone Australia will benefit from increased security as part of an ongoing global overhaul of privileged-account management that will strengthen the company's ability to control access to its networks.
David Braue |
18 May |
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They may have originally embarked on thin-client rollouts for remote access, but government agencies' early acceptance of virtual desktops has proved prescient as security models are challenged by growing use of mobile devices and cloud services.
David Braue |
18 May |
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Adobe has cleaned up 18 critical flaws in Flash Player and 34 critical flaws in Reader and Acrobat, including two that Google reported last October.
Liam Tung |
13 May |
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The leak of world leaders' passport details by Australia's Department of Immigration and Border Protection made news around the world, but new figures suggest that such breaches are far from isolated incidents, with human error – and not outside hacking, as many might believe – the biggest source of compromise in government agencies.
David Braue |
06 May |
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If you want security updates, then you should avoid Google’s Android, according to Microsoft, but the company is nonetheless borrowing from Google’s Chrome release cycle to speed things up.
Liam Tung |
05 May |
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Nobody is sure just how yet, but it's clear that the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) model is going to have significant implications for the structure and delivery of security long into the future. Privacy is likely to be one significant concern, even as the first anniversary of Australia's revamped Privacy Act passed amidst assessments that it is promoting new levels of accountability.
David Braue |
04 May |
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Organisations recognise the importance of data security in the future, but are struggling to translate that knowledge into clear policies that demonstrate transparency and trust, a new survey has found.
David Braue |
01 May |
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Australian availability of cloud-based analytics services will drive even broader adoption of threat-intelligence tools as cloud services enable large-scale collection and targeted analysis of massive quantities of log and threat data, a local big-data expert has predicted.
David Braue |
30 Apr |
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Google has released a free Chrome extension that warns Gmail users when they type their password into a phishing site and it's got new tools to protect the enterprise too.
Liam Tung |
30 Apr |
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It may have been over a year since a major overhaul of Australia's privacy laws pressured organisations to manage sensitive information better, but professional security service providers are still helping customers come to grips with the new laws.
David Braue |
29 Apr |
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Many companies are coming to see security as a form of damage control rather than prevention – an implicit admission that cybercriminals have outflanked and outclassed them – but one security innovator is still working hard to convince customers not to give up on the idea that attacks can still be prevented.
David Braue |
29 Apr |
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Program Chairman Hugh Thompson closed the RSA Conference with a focus on the human side of information security.
Anthony Caruana |
28 Apr |
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Companies may have been delivering work desktops to remote users over the Internet for many years, but many organisations are only now discovering how effectively remote-desktop technology can be leveraged to improve the overall security of the new workspace as a service (WaaS) paradigm.
David Braue |
05 May |
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The emerging model of the Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly changing the way organisations think about IT security – but IoT's unique characteristics are also likely to send ripples through conventional security architectures by forcing a fundamental rethink about how corporate data is managed and protected.
David Braue |
27 Apr |
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E-commerce platform Magento has stressed its customers need to update to the latest version of its software following reports of new attacks that could expose credit card details.
Liam Tung |
27 Apr |
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