Growing Australian demand for security tools meant “the time is right” for New Zealand security firm RedShield to jump into Australia on its way to a full-fledged global presence, the company’s founder has said as it announces an Australian distribution partnership for tools designed to insulate businesses from exposure to known vulnerabilities.
David Braue | 29 Aug | Read more
Using AWS’s API software developer’s kit or its command line interface, customers can write their own tools for imaging disk instances that have been compromised, say Andrew Krug and Alex McCormack. The pair if researchers presented four tools at Black Hat 2016 that they wrote specifically to deal with incident response in AWS.
Tim Greene | 12 Aug | Read more
Next-gen firewall companies like FireEye may be feeling the pinch from fewer state-backed Chinese hacker attacks, but worldwide spending on security is still growing, according to analyst firm Gartner.
Samsung's bigger Galaxy S6 likely in August...Most Android phones can be hacked via an MMS...Leading researchers want autonomous weapons ban...and more tech news.
IDG News Service staff | 28 Jul | Read more
Court says NSA can keep collecting phone records... Vandals cut cables again... Leap second largely trouble-free... and more tech news
IDG News Service staff | 01 Jul | Read more
When Black Hat convenes next week in Las Vegas, it will be a rich environment for gathering tools that can be used to tighten security but also - in the wrong hands - to carry out exploits.
Tim Greene | 29 Jul | Read more