Driftnetting – the new threat vector
Phishing, spearphishing, whaling are all nautical terms that have been created or adopted by the information security industry. The AFP has coined a new term.
Anthony Caruana | 14 Apr | Read more
Phishing, spearphishing, whaling are all nautical terms that have been created or adopted by the information security industry. The AFP has coined a new term.
Anthony Caruana | 14 Apr | Read more
Mainstream use of biometric authentication has taken a big step forward as the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) begins using voice biometrics to replace security questions and passwords for taxpayers phoning the organisation's enquiry line.
David Braue | 22 Jan | Read more
“We are basically aiming to do your tax return for you,” Bill Gibson, CIO of the Australian Tax Office told the Technology in Government Summit.
Stephen Withers | 07 Aug | Read more
All malware is bad, but some malware is more insidious than others. That seems to be the case with CosmicDuke. According to a new white paper from F-Secure, CosmicDuke meshes elements of two notorious malware threats--MiniDuke and Cosmu--to form a potent new attack.
Tony Bradley | 03 Jul | Read more
Norwegian data centre provider Green Mountain is touting for business from UK companies, having turned on its second facility in Rennesoy, Norway, this week.
The mysterious ‘Uroburos' cyberweapon named last week in Germany has been stalking its victims since as far back as 2005 and large enterprises and governments need to pay urgent attention to the threat it poses, UK security firm BAE Systems has urged.
John E Dunn | 10 Mar | Read more
As many as 24,000 Australian-based PCs may have malware that exposes them to a new mass ransomware campaign which encrypts victims’ files until a $300 ransom is paid.
For all its efforts to protect citizen privacy, the revelation that the passwords of many Australian Tax Office (ATO) business customers had been stored in plain text highlighted the persistent ability of human error – in this case, at an ATO subcontractor with data stored external to the organisation – to compromise security measures.
David Braue | 20 Jun | Read more
New report details cyberwar rules, puts hackers in crosshairs
John P. Mello Jr. | 22 Mar | Read more
October 17 marks the start of the two-day Australian IPv6 Summit, to be held in Melbourne. This year the event returns to the Sebel Hotel in Albert Park, with a speaker line-up that reads like a who’s who of networking industry in the APAC region. The event promises to continue the evangelisation of IPv6 — the next generation of Internet Protocol that ultimately we are eventually going to need whether we like it or not.
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has made good on its promise to support Linux in its next-generation authentication software, dubbed AUSkey, with the reference distribution being Ubuntu with the Firefox Web browser.
Rodney Gedda | 17 Dec | Read more
The Australian Taxation Office is preparing to release a Linux port of its AUSkey authentication software with Ubuntu being the reference distribution for testing and development.
Rodney Gedda | 21 Jul | Read more