Advertisements placed in Web sites and mobile applications using ad networks and exchanges are four times as likely to have malware than those sourced directly from publishers, according to an analysis of advertising malware and safety that also found Australia's rate of ad fraud is lower than that in comparable European countries.
David Braue | 25 Apr | Read more
John Carlin is an Assistant Attorney General at the Department of Justice in the US and runs the National Security Division. He is responsible for prosecuting cyber criminals in the United States that threaten the interests of the country. It was the first new litigation division created in 50 years and came from a recommendation of the 9/11 Commission and pulled together several different government entities that, until then, didn’t share information easily.
Anthony Caruana | 23 Apr | Read more
Security analytics has become a “key” tool in implementing effective security breach detection capabilities, Gartner has advised as the recent launch of several new managed security services (MSS) offerings brings new hosted and analytics security capabilities to the Australian market.
David Braue | 23 Apr | Read more
Akamai has introduced two new managed security service offerings to the Kona family of cloud security solutions. Managed Kona Site Defender and Kona DDoS Defender protect websites and web applications from malicious activity, keeping them online and providing high performance, even in the midst of an attack.
Anthony Caruana | 17 Apr | Read more
Australian targets are being hit by shorter, more intense distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that are, on average, the largest in the Asia-Pacific region, according to new figures from a global DDoS watchdog.
David Braue | 17 Apr | Read more
Resource-stretched CSOs were forced to investigate an average of 1.5 security incidents every week last year and lost significant amounts of time playing catch-up with ever-nimbler cybercriminals, a survey of IT and security professionals has found.
David Braue | 15 Apr | Read more
Some of the biggest banks Wall Street are leaving a "backdoor" wide open for hackers by failing to extend security governance to high risk suppliers.
Australian government departments have until September to outline how they will comply with all 36 of the security controls outlined in the Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF) and Information Security Manual (ISM) under the prescriptive first deliverable from the fledgling Digital Transformation Office (DTO).
David Braue | 09 Apr | Read more
The Federal Bureau of Investigations has warned Wordpress admins to patch their sites to halt website defacements that use ISIS name to grab headlines.
On April 1, the president of the United States issued an executive order to sanction malicious cyber actors who profit from stealing sensitive information from U.S. businesses, government agencies and individuals. President Obama said cyber threats "pose one of the most serious economic and national security challenges to the United States" and the executive order declared a national emergency pertaining to online threats.
Linda Musthaler | 05 Apr | Read more
Number-two telecommunications company SingTel Optus will undergo a wide ranging, independent review of its information-security systems after working with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) to finalise an enforceable undertaking relating to what privacy commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has called three “significant” breaches of customer privacy last year.
David Braue | 31 Mar | Read more
Months of often heated discussion about the necessity and scope of state surveillance came to a head late last week as controversial data retention legislation was passed by Australia's Parliament with a clear Senate majority.
David Braue | 30 Mar | Read more
It was a banner week for the handling of personal information, with Australia's controversial metadata retention laws becoming law after Labor capitulated on its previous opposition to the legislation. Similar issues were at the fore in the US – where numerous technology companies pressed the US government to stop its collection of metadata – and Europe, where Dutch telcos were ordered to delete data retained under previous data-retention laws after they were found to be unconstitutional. And the EU's high court wasset to revisit the ability of US companies to handle the zealously-protected personal information of EU citizens.
David Braue | 30 Mar | Read more
The attack on popular code-hosting site GitHub continues to rattle parts of the service three days after they began.
Intel Security senior vice president of worldwide channel operations Gavin Struthers has been promoted to Asia Pacific president.
Hamish Barwick | 25 Mar | Read more
The volume of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks grew more than 20 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014 after previously levelling off, but the locus of global security attacks continued to move away from the Asia-Pacific region, new figures from content distribution giant Akamai have revealed.
David Braue | 26 Mar | Read more
Google and others have called for all websites encrypt traffic to and from browsers, but the task for publishers is a tricky one, largely because of online advertising.
Companies in Australia and New Zealand are proving to be the world's most susceptible to the latest version of CryptoWall, security vendor Trend Micro has warned as analysis of the new ransomware strain found that victims now face having their data stolen as well as their systems locked.
David Braue | 25 Mar | Read more
Providers of security training skills are working overtime to keep their curriculum relevant to new threats while teaching advanced hacking skills in a methodical and manageable way, according to the head of Australia's largest IT training provider.
David Braue | 24 Mar | Read more
A new feature in Android keeps your passcode protected smartphone unlocked when it’s on your body — a move that reduces the hassle of typing a passcode but also leaves devices exposed to muggers.