Asian victims lose $40m to scammers spoofing Chinese embassy phone numbers
FBI warns consumers over the Chinese embassy scam.
FBI warns consumers over the Chinese embassy scam.
Australia is the place to be for information security who want the highest salary.
More Australian organizations are falling prey to email fraudsters.
Although just 1 in 3 Australian companies believe they need to be compliant with forthcoming European Union privacy regulations, the remainder are likely to find themselves commercially disadvantaged if they don’t do the same, a senior European cloud-industry executive has warned.
David Braue | 22 Aug | Read more
Australia will push Five-Eyes partners to create laws that make it easier for local intelligence agencies to gain cooperation from US tech firms.
With so many security projects and initiatives taking place across Australia and New Zealand, being chosen as the best security initiative of the last year is a great recognition of strong work over the last year. Kasada (https://www.kasada.io) was rewarded for their work on thwarting bot attacks at the 2017 AusCERT conference.
Anthony Caruana | 05 Jun | Read more
Businesses in Australia and New Zealand are rushing to introduce formal cyber security awareness programs amongst staff, new figures find, even as those who already have them warn that they are largely ineffective in changing the behaviour of naïve individuals who bend the rules to get their job done.
David Braue | 02 Dec | Read more
Australia may be relatively small by population but it has the most information-security breaches in the Asia-Pacific region, according to new research that has applied a standard metric as a way to compare the relative frequency and severity of security breaches.
David Braue | 22 Sep | Read more
Ransomware perpetrators have stepped up their targeting of Australia with campaigns built around ransomware-laced messages purportedly from police and postal authorities, security firm ESET has reported as industry figures suggest the rising tide of ransomware attacks against Australian targets is showing no signs of abating.
David Braue | 02 Sep | Read more
The Apple-FBI stoush continued as the FBI claimed it doesn't want to break everyone's iPhone encryption; Facebook weighed in on Apple's side while Google and Microsoft eventually did the same; surveys suggested a majority of Americans support the FBI's position – as does Microsoft founder Bill Gates – and Apple pushed for a government commission to explore the issue – also supported by one US lawmaker – after it claimed software is free speech.
David Braue | 29 Feb | Read more
A growing number of cybercriminals are using Australia as a launchpad for malware attacks on other countries, according to new statistics suggesting Australia-based attacks doubled during 2015 – putting the country in the top 10 global hosts for suspicious URLs, malicious IP addresses and phishing sites.
David Braue | 24 Feb | Read more
Stolen Australian credit-card numbers and other credentials are commanding a premium over those from US and UK customers when sold in hidden online marketplaces, new research has found.
David Braue | 16 Oct | Read more
One in five Australian workers use the same password for all of their work and personal services while half use the same passwords at work as they do at home, a recent survey of password and device security habits has found.
David Braue | 18 Sep | Read more
The Ashley Madison postmortem continued, with Trend Micro uncovering apparent spams that were being used by the company in conjunction with fake user profiles – and some suggesting that the way the firm's developers had stored sensitive credentials allowed hackers to slip past their defences and crack 11.2 million passwords. Such source-code analysis is proving to be a treasure trove for hackers, with one cyberespionage group caught borrowing code from a leaked online banking Trojan.
David Braue | 14 Sep | Read more
An Australian smartphone designed to preserve privacy and anonymity has attracted global attention as startup company Ncryptcellular promotes the software-and-hardware combination as an antidote to increased government surveillance.
David Braue | 10 Sep | Read more